Blair Tindall's autobiography, Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music, created quite a stir when it was published in America last month. I ordered a copy, in guilty expectation of a muck ...

Which is the most glamorous instrument of a symphony orchestra? I can only speculate. I’m not now, nor have I ever been, a musician. I’m not a student of music. In fact, I’ve never seriously attempted ...

OJAI — Charles Rosen’s “The Classical Style” is an illuminating, academic, occasionally combative, close study of the musical style of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven by a brilliant pianist and scholar ...

Look, it’s not that us classical music fans are snooty. But ask any aficionado and we’ll roundly agree: Music streaming platforms get the genre so, so wrong. Searching for classical recordings on ...

Imagine a world without the classical column. They're everywhere. For something that's thousands of years old and little more than a building support, even if that building is the Parthenon, it's ...

While rummaging through some newly published books received from Majlis-i-Taraqqi-i-Adab, a small volume with the captivating title Barr-i-Saghir ki Mausiqi attracted my attention. I picked it up and ...