Classical

As one of the most-performed living composers, the Pulitzer winner insists that her music communicate to everyone — from farmers to children to the classical music intelligentsia.

The versatile artist offers his singular blend of global, jazz and classical sounds, pushing both his cello and his voice into uncharted territory.

South African cellist and composer Abel Selaocoe talks about his new album "Hymns of Bantu," which highlights the healing power of song across cultures.

Two short operas that got their premieres at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. feature Black female protagonists.

NPR's A Martínez speaks with Dutch brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen about their new EP, Rêve, featuring piano duets by lesser-known composers influenced by — or rejecting — French Impressionism.

Riley's pioneering piece, which premiered 60 years ago, leaves many decisions up to the performers. It helped launch the movement known as minimalism, but In C itself has also survived and changed.

A nearly 200-year-old music manuscript by composer Frédéric Chopin was recently unearthed at a museum in New York.

To mark the 150th anniversary of the maverick American composer’s birth, pianist Jeremy Denk releases an Ives tribute album that educates, delights and confounds.

Watch as Common and Aspen Music School students take Toto's "Africa" and make something spontaneous, yet memorable.

Rapper RZA, who helped launch the Wu-Tang Clan hip-hop group in the 1990s, tries his hand in classical music by composing for a ballet inspired by Greek musical scales during the pandemic.