All throughout our childhood, those Saturday-morning Schoolhouse Rock jingles assured us that three was the magic number. Journalist and radio producer Gustavo Noguera likes the number nine, ...

About 350 people ran or walked around the campus of Alvernia University on Sunday morning while others brought lawn chairs and sat down to enjoy classical music. The sixth annual Beat Beethoven race ...

This salsa-fied Beethoven video has been making the rounds lately -- a very spicy arrangement of the opening movement of the Fifth Symphony. ButSverre Indris Joner and company certainly aren't the ...

Audiences at the big concert venues of Manhattan — Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Met Opera — are often unenthusiastic or even sleepy, what my Sicilian family would call mezza morta: half-dead.

Composer, conductor and producer Steve Hackman is breaking down barriers between the classical and pop music worlds, one orchestral reimagination at a time. And for the first time, the Chicago-area ...

NEW YORK (AP) — When Grammy-award winner Jon Batiste was a kid, say, 9 or 10 years old, he moved between musical worlds — participating in local, classical piano competitions by day, then “gigging in ...