More than two decades after Don Campbell published The Mozart Effect, debate continues over whether listening to classical music can raise your IQ. Most studies into whether quiet music for kids – or, ...

The crowds of tourists in Venice can be a lot, but we'll get a quiet trip in a gondola with an impression by Sir Charles Villiers Stamford during our music today. Tune in on 91.1 and 107.5 FM and our ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by critic’s notebook With performances silenced by the coronavirus, our chief classical music critic has been left wishing for more sound, not less. By ...

Leopold Mozart told young Wolfgang and Nanerl to find something quiet to do while he was feeling under the weather in London. Wolfgang used the opportunity to write his first symphony, which we'll ...

But, counterintuitive though it might seem, I don’t think sound is always a helpful way to understand genre. I’m a composer and conductor in the field that’s broadly known as Western classical music, ...