It should come as no surprise that classical-music critics are heavily into S&M. Scarlatti & Monteverdi. Schubert & Mozart. Strauss & Mahler. Stravinsky & Messiaen. What could all those ampersands ...

In this delightful primer to classical music, composer and music scholar Swafford (The Vintage Guide to Classical Music) conducts us breathlessly on a tour of the highlights of the history of ...

Next to the accordion or bagpipes, no other instrument has been more brutalized than the viola. Multiple Web sites devoted to viola jokes can be found online - some of them require a parental advisory ...

Learn about the history, and future, of the musical art form. Devesh Chandra started playing the tabla (Indian hand drums) at age three, learning from the sounds of Northern Indian classical music ...

How well do you know your classical repertoire? Enough to name a piece just from hearing the first few seconds? If you like your classical music, you’ll almost certainly recognise all these pieces.