When motion pictures were born, classical music was the ... For these, the director called on two pieces by the greatest ...

The chorus and orchestra dramatically shift between piano and fortissimo passages of music, guaranteed to grab the attention of any audience. Outside of the concert hall, ‘O Fortuna’ became the UK’s ...

Classical music on ... musically—chamber and vocal music supplementing the better-known orchestral and piano works—with more than one account of several pieces. Ives’s thorny scores ...

The piece that reminds you that classical music is still happening right now ... that premiered no less than three of Beethoven’s greatest works. But it was a bumpy start.

By Joshua BaroneCorinna da Fonseca-WollheimZachary Woolfe and Oussama Zahr The New York Times’s classical music and opera critics ... is a lot to take in over its nearly 50 minutes, but in ...

The rigid forms of classical music gave way to ... the tone poem and descriptive overture were popular as pieces of stand-alone orchestral music that evoked anything from a painting or poem to a ...