With the biennial Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival concerts comes a need to sharpen one's grasp of critical musical language. Certain terms appear frequently on musical scores and ...

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What is classical music’s place today? Will there still be an engaged audience for repertoires of the past centuries? The conductor, Leon Botstein, didn’t seem to hold high expectations for The ...

Is classical music in a "new golden age"? Heather Mac Donald recently argued this at length in City Journal, a right-leaning quarterly. Despite widespread pessimism, she takes the view that ...