But, counterintuitive though it might seem, I don’t think sound is always a helpful way to understand genre. I’m a composer and conductor in the field that’s broadly known as Western classical music, ...

Let us make the case that the most successful music conservatory is not in Paris, Vienna or Berlin but rather, in a house on a tree-lined street in Nottingham, England. It might be an unpretentious ...

The composer is an undeniable part of the classical music canon. Does that change the meaning of his radical early work? Opening night of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2014 production of The Death of ...