Vienna was beleaguered from battles with Napoleon and Beethoven described the “cannons and misery all around.” In late 1813, Beethoven premiered his 7th symphony in Vienna as a benefit for soldiers ...

In his mid-20s in the mid-1850s, Johannes Brahms was daunted by the shadow of Beethoven who had died only about 30 years before. Because of this, Brahms resisted composing a symphony until he was 46 ...

Rock music had a solid decade in the 1970s. And the year 1976 was a particularly fruitful year for the genre of classic rock. So much amazing music came out that year. Many of those songs are still in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Deposit Photos. The 1960s offered a soundtrack for a decade of immense change, producing tunes that have managed to ...

A Beatle, some Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder, and most of all, Peter Frampton all had records top the charts in 1976.

Why do we focus on the bad news stories about cuts and crises in classical music ? Musicians are doing incredible things to engage, support and sustain us; we should tell those stories too ...

This week, we found ourselves idly googling 'classic rock Greenland' and soon thereafter found ourselves listening to Sumé, a ...

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, ...