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Newport Classical’s 57th summer music festival will bring 30 concerts to 11 venues across Newport from July 2-19, 2026, the ...

Erinys's upcoming program at Trinity Church features Anton Webern's Fünf Sätze für Streichquartett, a quartet in five movements, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's String Quartet No. 15 in D Minor, K. 421, and ...

Streaming platforms for Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music Robert Schumann Piano Concerto haven’t been announced yet. Check back soon for updates on where you can watch it online.

Certain ring tones have become extremely famous over the years — especially the default ones that people just can’t be bothered to change. Take Apple’s Marimba, for example. Or the classic Nokia ring ...

On Jan. 28, 1936, Dmitri Shostakovich woke up to read a sternly worded condemnation of his music in the official Soviet newspaper, Pravda. Never mind that the work in question (his opera “Lady Macbeth ...

Bach’s St Matthew Passion tells the story of Jesus’s final days, based on Matthew’s Gospel.