Can listening to classical music make you “smarter”? Since intelligence is measured in many ways, the issue is contentious. How, exactly, might this occur? In a 1993 study published in the journal ...

Music has a unique power to transcend time, culture, and language — and no one understands that better than the composers who shaped the art form over the past thousand years. From the soaring sacred ...

In popular culture, it’s not often that classical music gets a spot in the proverbial spotlight. But more recently, two celebrated films have taken the subject up and earned critical and cultural ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Joe Hisaishi got famous writing the soundtracks to Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli films. Now he is focusing on his first love: classical music. Credit...Kentaro Takahashi for ...

Join 24,000 of your neighbors and stay in tune with the Triangle. Sign up In October 1982, composer Philip Glass appeared in an ad for Cutty Sark scotch. Floating above an illustration of Glass with ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Listen to recordings by Maria Dueñas and Daniil Trifonov, works by Thomas Adès and Tania León, and more. London Philharmonic Orchestra; Thomas Adès, ...

These days, most people encounter classical music through films, not in concert halls. While movie studios employ composers to write original scores for their productions, these composers often blend ...

Germany has long been a powerhouse of classical music, producing some of the most influential and revered composers in history. From the intricate counterpoint of the Baroque to the sweeping dramas of ...