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A 10-part series on Hulu traces their origins, including the pivotal choice facing the original Wu-Tang members between steady cash from the streets and the crap shoot of music careers.

During the Civil War, piano battles played by women in the parlor served as a connection to violence on the front.

To paraphrase musicologist Doug Shadle, "the classical music industry trades in the anecdote." What does that actually look like, and what are the consequences?

It’s no secret: Richard Wagner was not particularly fond of non-white, non-Aryan peoples. So how do we square that with his artistic legacy?

Scott Joplin wrote his opera Treemonisha in 1910, but it didn't get a premiere until six decades later. Its production is an example of how to move outside of the canon.

Why do film and TV villains love classical music so much?

A recent concert at Carnegie Hall exposed the battle between the mind and body. With regards to clapping, that is.

Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker was supposed to have the musical spotlight. But then director Jordan Peele was like, “nah.”

A new release of Berlioz music by Warner Classics includes an “Early Works” disc, which features the first recording of 'Symphonie Fantastique.'

Here are some of the must-hear concerts this spring — we’re even giving away tickets to some of these on-air today, too, so make sure to tune in for a chance to win!

Can AI finish Schubert's Unfinished Symphony?

There is musical life after high school band, after all.

Getting your classical fix on many streaming services can be a total nightmare.

The Attacca Quartet brought some Beethoven to the bowels of a church, and honestly, it’s a perfect fit.

Employees always have something up their sleeves on the boss’s birthday.

Of course Merle Hazard *would* write a bluegrass jam about the halcyon days of twelve-tone glory.

During the most boring Super Bowl imaginable, advertisers leaned into several of the meanings classical music can convey in a commercial world.

And how did we come to rediscover Vivaldi in the first place?

Pianist Evelina De Lain brought Chopin to the Himalayas.

Artist Gary Word fell in love with fused glass and uses that knowledge to create unique instruments. If you wanted to know what a glass cello sounds like, this is your chance.