Like many art forms, classical music labors under a stigma of popular assumptions that it constantly has to overcome to appear both vibrant and viable. The name "classical" alone imparts an air of ...

Violinist Mark O’Connor is renowned as a crossover artist whose approach and compositions straddle the fuzzy lines between different musical styles, especially jazz, Americana and classical music.

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"I want to play something for you," said our friend, pushing back from the dinner table and going to the CD player. "Guess what this is." Through the haze of food and wine came angular, jagged, ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Year to year, a handful of artists tends to dominate the classical chart. Sign up here. But 2006 saw a real upset, courtesy of one unlikely "newcomer" -- Sting. The former punk ...