Melvin Way passed away this past February at the age of 69, just months before his first solo exhibition. The artist’s ...

From Bach mastery to the spellbinding brilliance of 20th-century French music, we pull out all the stops in this list of the all-time top 10 organ epics.

They told it not as a monotone celebration or indictment but as a contrapuntal story, and that remains the best way to tell it. They knew, as one eighteenth-century South Carolinian, David Ramsay ...

The scene later concludes with an abbreviated reprise of this regal chorus, “How Excellent Thy Name,” appended by a joyfully contrapuntal “Alleluia!” that at its conclusion hints toward ...

Clarinetist Graeme Steele Johnson revives Charles Loeffler’s “Octet for two clarinets, harp, string quartet and double bass” after 127 years in obscurity.

Now in the 25th year since Shepard's murder, Tyler will revisit the work as artistic director of the Master Singers of ...

Yet pictorial complexity was not enough for Schmeisser (1942-2012). The globe-hopping artist packed his already dense pictures with contrapuntal flourishes and sometimes incorporated diaristic text ...

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Grammy-award winning jazz pianist Brad Mehldau’s two new albums use classical music as a foundation for solo explorations ...

An objective list of the 50 most powerful people in New Zealand, as judged by the Spinoff Editorial Board. It’s power list ...

Coursework for this major includes rigorous core sequences of music theory, aural skills, history, piano and private study courses, as well as upper-level theory electives such as contrapuntal writing ...

Gabriel Kahane’s American Studies, based on his own song “To Be American,” mixed foot-stomping suggestions of an Appalachian ...