What do we possess today as “art”? A faked music, filled with artificial noisiness of massed instruments; a failed painting, full of idiotic, exotic and showcard effects, that every ten years or so ...

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This week marks the end of RhythmFest and the performance of the much anticipated California Mavericks. Since the Johnstone Fund for New Music and New Music at Short North Stage have invited all of ...

The 20th century was a time of musical revolutions and innovations. Composers searched for new harmonies, rhythms and forms. What doors are left to kick open this century? Precious few. With no ...

This most private of men presented an elegant and meticulous persona in his music and Kilpatrick has responded with an ...

Have you ever been to a familiar restaurant where one night all the different flavors on the plate seemed fresh and the whole dinner was a joyous voyage of discovery? Well, that’s what it was like ...

Barrie Gavin: instead of attempting to illustrate music literally, he found visual equivalents with a beauty of their own - Dmitri N. Smirnov Barrie Gavin, who has died aged 89, was a prolific ...

"The state of exile is the state in which the artist is most open to inspiration of all kinds," conductor James Conlon told a sparse but rapt Davies Symphony Hall audience Wednesday night. Conlon was ...

Rightly or wrongly, classical music is viewed by many people as something that is not for them. It could be the perceived ‘rules’ of the concert hall or the expectation that you need specialist ...