The composer is using the piece for saxophone and string orchestra to explore the musical roots of his island home.

Classical crossovers have taken Hollywood by storm. One of the musical entities leading the charge is Vitamin String Quartet, which returns to Northeast Ohio for a show on Oct. 24 at EJ Thomas Hall in ...

The epitome of musical diversity just might be an Oakland-based group that plays hip-hop and classical — together. Called the Ensemble Mik Nawooj, the group performs on Wednesday, December 4, at 7:30 ...

The UL Lafayette Symphony Orchestra will collaborate with PROJECT Trio for two concerts blending classical, jazz and hip-hop.

Though based in Austin, the Young Eight’s members include Seattle violinist QUINTON I. MORRIS, the group’s founder, who has brought his fledgling, all-African-American string ensemble home to show off ...

Music of Remembrance launches the world premiere of oratorio “VEDEM,” Gerard Schwarz remembers Leonard Bernstein’s “Young People’s Concerts,” and Linda Tsatsanis and John Lenti say farewell to the ...

After 82 years of teaching young people to perform classical music, one of the nation’s oldest youth orchestra programs is turning to big-band jazz. Justin Faulker, director and conductor of the new ...

Classical music in America has been historically and predominantly white. Orchestras large and small have followed the traditional canon of white European male composers since its inception hundreds ...

Is the Bay Area really the center of classical music disruption, the region’s favorite term? Last week offered some reasons to think so. There was the news that the San Francisco Symphony had made Esa ...