John Cage once said that any noise can become music if you listen to it hard enough. The modern composer is most famous for his 4’33”, in which he uses a piano to play nothing for four minutes and 33 ...

When you hear the term “classical music,” do you think of an inoffensive, easy-listening radio background or visceral passions resonating with your soul? Do you associate practicing the piano with ...

Jennifer Gersten, a doctoral student in violin performance at Stony Brook University, is an editor at Guernica and the winner of the 2018 Rubin Prize for Music Criticism. Follow @jenwgersten Let the ...

Ten days ago, we posed the question: What's broken in classical music, and how do we fix it? We asked you, along with a few prominent musicians, to ponder that question and come up with a few thoughts ...

Until July 26: Carl Rosa Opera presents HMS Pinafore by Gilbert & Sullivan, at Malvern Festival Theatre. Box office: 01684 892277. July 28-31: Carl Rosa Opera presents The Pirates of Penzance by ...