Whether you’re a longtime listener or a newcomer to WKAR, you’ve probably heard our music host Jody Knol on the air. He’s ...

Concert halls and symphony orchestras try to lure younger listeners by mutilating the music. There’s a better way.

With her emotion-evoking operatic range and soprano heights, Dominican opera singer Zuly Inirio is challenging whose voice is embodied and heard throughout the genre. She first saw an opera — “La ...

Yunchan Lim became the youngest Gold Award winner in history at the 2022 Van Cliburn International Competition when he won the prestigious title at just 18 years old. Note: This concert is rescheduled ...

Joshua Brown makes his debut at Tanglewood, the iconic classical music venue in Lenox and Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Brown, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Listen to recordings by Maria Dueñas and Daniil Trifonov, works by Thomas Adès and Tania León, and more. London Philharmonic Orchestra; Thomas Adès, ...

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, ...

The composer is an undeniable part of the classical music canon. Does that change the meaning of his radical early work? Opening night of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2014 production of The Death of ...