Key Changes: Radio 3's Essential History of Classical Music

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25 most celebrated composers in history: discover their lega

Explore 25 of the most celebrated composers in history, from medieval pioneers to Romantic masters. Discover their ...
Boston Review

Classical Music and the Color Line

Like U.S. history, classical music has become a new front in the culture wars as musicians and music institutions grapple with the legacies of racism. With most performing arts organizations shuttered ...
The Harvard Crimson

From Tchaikovsky to Tilson Thomas: A History of Classical Music at the BSO

On March 15, the Boston Symphony Orchestra began their concert as any other: The oboe tuned the orchestra with a concert A, then guest conductor Teddy Abrams and soloist Ray Chen came to the stage to ...
NPR

Remembering Richard Taruskin, a writer who made you care about 1,000 years of music

Nearly two decades ago, shortly before the publication of his 4,000-page magnum opus, The Oxford History of Western Music, the polarizing American musicologist Richard Taruskin agreed to sit with NPR ...
The New Yorker

Can Dave Hurwitz Save Classical Recording?

He sits squarely in front of us on the screen, a full-bodied man with a carefully trimmed white beard and a nearly bald head, his eyes looming behind dark-framed glasses—one eye glaring with cyclopean ...