As an executive at Columbia and RCA Records, he popularized the classics for mass audiences by applying the same techniques used to sell pop music. By Adam Nossiter R. Peter Munves, a record company ...

Across at least a dozen interviews spanning more than two decades, Zakir Hussain is nothing if not consistent. In just about every conversation he’s preparing to fly off to India or has just returned ...

Zakir Hussain, one of India's most accomplished classical musicians who defied genres and introduced tabla to global audiences, died on Sunday. He was 73. The Indian classical music icon died from ...

The virtuoso guitarist comes to town in the first weekend of December to perform as a featured guest with Sarasota Orchestra. Born in June 1977 in the city of Logroño, located in northern Spain’s La ...

Guitarist William Coulter plays his guitar this week as the waves crash along West Cliff. Coulter, an internationally recognized master of the steel-string guitar who lives in Santa Cruz, will be ...

Clarinetist Anthony McGill and pianist Gloria Chien take on Carl Maria von Weber’s Grand Duo Concertant—a piece as bold and virtuosic as its name suggests. It’s a spirited musical conversation between ...

Ustaad Naseeruddin Saami and The Saami Brothers are redefining the global appreciation of Pakistani classical music as their ...

Classical music picks up the pace in Wilmington this week when the Vivace International Music Festival returns Thursday for its second season of solo and chamber music performances and masterclasses ...

Twenty famous masterpieces by the most important composers in history are brought closer to the viewer through first class concert broadcasts. Examples from the musical scores help the viewer to ...

The early Violin Sonata No. 1 by Gabriel Fauré was rapturously welcomed at its premiere in 1877, with the audience demanding an encore of the scherzo third movement. And the praise didn't stop there.