PJ Morton, Tank and The Bangas and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band are among the music nominees for Big Easy Entertainment Awards. There are Big Easy awards for best male and female performer, best ...

Concert halls and symphony orchestras try to lure younger listeners by mutilating the music. There’s a better way.

Joan Tower's first major orchestral work, Sequoia, from 1981, opens with the boom of a massive gong and a fusillade of deafening cowbells. Like the statuesque redwoods of the title, the music looms ...

Apple acquired Primephonic—a renowned classical music service—in 2021. For the unaware, Primephonic was a classical music streaming service aimed at addressing the needs of the fans of the classical ...

In giving Apple Music Classical a test spin, a user finds the app providing more varied and interesting points of entry for casual and experienced classical fans than its parent app, Apple Music I’ve ...

"Accessible" can be a dirty word in contemporary classical music. For decades, composers have outfitted their works with gnarly tangles of complexity, and heaven forbid if there's a tune you can hum.

Our long national nightmare of not having a dedicated Apple Music app for classical music is nearly over. A new app–called, unsurprisingly, Apple Music Classical–has appeared in the App Store at long ...