Colorado Music Festival known for premiering new classical music

The Colorado Music Festival plays a wide range of traditional classical music, but also mixes in some modern classical pieces ...
Washington Times

Jon Batiste’s ‘Beethoven Blues’ transforms classical works into unique blues and gospel renditions

NEW YORK — When Grammy-award winner Jon Batiste was a kid, say, 9 or 10 years old, he moved between musical worlds - participating in local, classical piano competitions by day, then “gigging in night ...
Jazz

Twin Sons from Different Mothers?: Harmonic Convergence in Jazz and Classical Music, Part 1: "The Blues"

Viewed in this way, we can see the blues as a quest for existential answers to questions that have always been, and always will be—they have no beginning, and no end. In my article about Harmony and ...
al.com

Classical Blues Cabaret's Phil Weaver on 10th anniversary show, why classical and blues overlap, how career-threatening injury changed his guitar playing

Classical Blues Cabaret's Rosa Vidro Richardson, left, Phil Weaver, Ingrid von Spakovsky and "Microwave Dave" Gallaher. (Courtesy image/ photo Dennis Keim/ graphic Meredith Kilby) HUNTSVILLE, Alabama ...
Yahoo

From classical to blues: How Iowa musician Kathryn Fox found her voice

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I have early memories of sitting in the grocery store parking lot with my dad and my sister, patiently waiting for my mom to come ...

Orchestra founder Paul Montalvo says classical music can change lives

The CEO of Orchestra San Antonio wasn't always a fan of classical music. Heavy metal was more his thing. Then he had an ...

5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now

Mozart choral works, a pairing of Dvorak and Carlos Simon and piano music by Philip Glass are among our selections.
The Conversation

I’m going to a classical music concert for the first time. What should I know?

Classical music is surprisingly controversial. For some, it’s a pinnacle of cultural achievement. For others it perpetuates class inequality and upholds “white middle class social domination”. To ...
Lifehacker

The Best Classical Music Streaming Service Is Idagio

Listening to classical music is a bit different from listening to modern pop music. The music is built differently—most recordings aren’t performed by their composers, and there’s rarely one ...

This classical music concert is setting up in an iconic Griffith Park canyon

There are plenty of iconic venues to hear live music in Los Angeles, but a canyon underneath the Hollywood Sign isn’t usually ...
The New York Times

Solutions for the Crisis in Classical Music

Readers discuss ways to rescue the industry. To the Editor: Re “Stop Mutilating Classical Music to Sell It to Kids,” by Evan Shinners (Opinion guest essay, Jan. 23): Mr. Shinners’s essay makes an ...
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Jon Batiste's 'Beethoven Blues' transforms classical works into unique blues and gospel renditions

NEW YORK – When Grammy-award winner Jon Batiste was a kid, say, 9 or 10 years old, he moved between musical worlds — participating in local, classical piano competitions by day, then “gigging in night ...