Music history has a funny way of remembering the loud voices while quietly shelving the revolutionary ones. We celebrate Beethoven, Mozart, and Bach without question. Yet ask most people to name a ...

Likened to a “court composer” for Germany, he wrote more than 500 pieces and was considered one of the most original and independent musical voices in Europe. By Jeffrey Arlo Brown Jeffrey Arlo Brown ...

When Stephanie Ho and Saar Ahuvia are putting together their annual summer Makrokosmos music festival, it always starts with a single piece. The great American composer George Crumb’s epic ...

Seth Boustead is a composer, pianist, and arts manager. Raised by a single mother in Missouri and Arizona, Boustead studied composition at the University of Missouri, then moved to Chicago in 1995. In ...

Explore 25 of the most celebrated composers in history, from medieval pioneers to Romantic masters. Discover their ...

Every now and then, you spot an unexpected name when scanning the classical music offerings in any given season. Nina Totenberg, say. Or Rick Steves. Even Broadway legend Stephen Schwartz seems a bit ...

Most often, we only see the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the work of composers and songwriters—the fame, the fans, the autograph sessions. But how exactly do they write music and songs? What is ...

Just as gray winter gives way to spring blossoms, this season’s classical music concerts reveal how much more colorful and diverse Portland classical music concerts have become since the dull days ...