(CBS News) Pianist Richard Hyung-ki Joo and violinist Aleksey Igudesman are bringing Mozart, Bach, and Beethoven to a new generation. But they are not traditional performers. Their current show, "A ...

After graduating from the Osaka College of Music in 1988, Yoko Shimomura was torn between career paths. Classically trained since the age of 3 and raised in a family of piano players, Shimomura had ...

It might just be because I am getting old, but suddenly it seems like classical music is newly cool. Tár, Todd Field’s caustic portrait of a celebrity conductor, was the most critically consequential ...

Channeling Danny Kaye, Victor Borge, P.D.Q. Bach and other musicians-cum-comics, conservatory-trained violinist Aleksey Igudesman and pianist Hyung-ki Joo like to say that they don’t make fun of ...

It’s hard to imagine, but there really was a time when classical music was the popular music of the day. Haydn, Beethoven and the boys were the “rock stars” of their time. If music fans wanted to hear ...

Each summer, Pasadena families have the opportunity to enjoy classical music and have some really unusual fun - nothing stuffy about the gathering at the Pasadena Convention Center at 10:30 a.m. on ...

Four pianists at one keyboard? Eight hands playing at once? Really? Yes, really! Recently, Anja Kalaba, Katie Stahl, Jessica Yuan and Eric Zhuang, all Manheim Township High School seniors, were ...

With 25 million YouTube hits, the musical comedy duo Igudesman & Joo is going viral with classical music. Mozart meets the “James Bond Theme” and the Bee Gees. “I Will Survive,” the disco hit, gets ...

Wires snake across the stage at USC’s Bovard Auditorium. Microphones and music stands flank a grand piano. A skewed replica of an old-fashioned radio tower sits at one side. It’s a cool December ...