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The Pulitzer-winning composer began her career with a creative blank check, but she's spent much of the past decade moving sideways. Her latest trick: reinventing as a songwriter.

The men who made Tanglewood are well celebrated. But what about the women who made it possible? Meet Gertrude Robinson Smith and Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge.

At what point does a broken violin become unplayable? Also in this roundup: Shostakovich's soccer obsession, a Tchaikovsky/Sinatra mashup, and more!

Your new favorite music: Fido's face. Also in this roundup: living room concerts, upright basses, and organs, oh my!

Every description of the artform watercolors seems to use the word "transparency." For some composers, watercolors' transparency also meant fleeting glimpses of precious moments in time.

Percussionist Patrick Santos adds his own spin to classical favorites, in our latest roundup.

How Ponchielli’s “Dance of the Hours” became the theme song for a miserable summer camp experience and a pop culture touchstone.

Pens, mugs, T-shirts, mini Eiffel Towers. But when classical composers traveled they brought home other things....

The trailblazing singer, who broke the color barrier at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955, is remembered in a deluxe new release of albums and images.

Imagine you're suspended in some primordial gas cloud where matter is transforming, regenerating, building toward the birth of a planet. That's what Enigma sounds like.