Here we go again. Last year at this time, we looked back at our buoyancy, gingerly bouncing back from COVID-19. But 2022 became, with new surges, a boomerang year. Somehow, though, the performing arts ...

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Apple appears to be preparing for the upcoming launch of Apple Music Classical, a standalone classical music app that will be available alongside the ‌Apple Music‌ app. Mentions of Apple Classical ...

Julia Bullock's Walking in the Dark is one of NPR Music's top 10 classical albums of 2022. These albums not only kept me company at home this year, but helped me realize how important our connections ...

In August 2021, Apple announced it had acquired classical music service Primephonic. At the time, Apple said it planned to launch a dedicated classical music app this year, but time is starting to run ...

In early 1836 Robert Schumann composed a piano piece expressing his heartache of being separated from Clara Schumann - not his wife until four years later - writing to her in 1838 that he meant it as ...

For as long as I can remember, the classical-music world has been pining for fresh audiences and musing anxiously about its own extinction. The last two years of pause, protest, and epiphany have ...

Hosted by Lynne Warfel, "All Is Bright: Contemplative Music for Christmas" presents one hour of gorgeous, contemplative music related to the Christmas season and its symbolism. This program uses ...

Don’t get me wrong: the list of things I’d rather not reprise from the pandemic lockdown is far longer than any pros that came out of it. One thing I actually miss? Presenters had rarely been so ...

Soprano Julia Bullock's affecting solo debut, with its breathtaking spin on a deep cut by the enigmatic Connie Converse and a sublime rendition of Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915, traces the ...

This weekend on Connections - Saturday afternoon at 4 AND Sunday at 2pm - host Stephen Peithman will share the stories behind, and connections between, Beethoven's Fifth and Sixth symphonies. The one ...