A concert pianist trained at the Royal College of Music in London, England, Laura van Leest worked as product manager for Polygram in 1997 before coming to Canada. At Universal Classics, she heads ...

Do you need to calm your kitty? Don't fret. Next month, Universal Music, a major label for classical music, is releasing Music for Cats, by David Teie. No, not music inspired by cats, (like Andrew ...

Jennifer Gersten, a doctoral student in violin performance at Stony Brook University, is an editor at Guernica and the winner of the 2018 Rubin Prize for Music Criticism. Follow @jenwgersten Let the ...

The sounds of the city now include strings, woodwinds and horns. The Port Authority of Allegheny County, in response to a summer of increased violence in Downtown Pittsburgh, started playing classical ...

Today’s fast-paced, on-demand world offers immense opportunity -- and plenty of distraction. Tuning out worries and remaining focused can be especially difficult for children, many of whom feel ...

If you were shopping in the music department of your local Borders recently, you might have noticed a display for something called "The Most Relaxing Classical Album . . . Ever!" This CD, a ...

Musician and critic Jennifer Gersten wants us to transform the way we think about classical music. Perceived by many as “inaccessible, elitist, incomprehensible,” the genre is often marketed by ...

“…Lead author Lori Kogan of Colorado State University found that Mozart, Beethoven and the like may reduce stress in dogs, according to a study in the Journal of ...

Don’t know what to do this weekend? Well, you’ve come to the right place. Pull up a seat to the counter, and I’ll tell you about everything that’s hot and happening. Hardly anything is normal this ...