Seth Boustead speaks on how ACM's view of classical music as a living tradition informs its Thirsty Ears Festival and its new ...

Modern Classical Music Sounds Like Monster Movies The music may be technically challenging for the performers, but it is excruciating for listeners. June 23, 2022 12:57 pm ET Share Resize ...

WHO: The Aizuri String Quartet, sponsored by New Orleans Friends of Music WHAT: A two-part concert of contemporary and classical chamber music works WHEN: 7:30 p.m., Monday, March 27 ...

Collage New Music is one of contemporary classical's best friends in Boston. Provocative programs that often include Collage's own commissions are performed in the Longy School of Music's ...

Seattle Modern Orchestra's "Strictly Strings" program, Jan. 28 at Cornish College of the Arts, features works by John Adams, Claude Vivier and Iannis Xenakis.

Ross also opines that since classical music is an acquired taste, enduring exposure to modern expressions will develop an appreciation for 20th- and 21st-century compositions.

A few things you wanted to know about contemporary classical music and weren’t afraid to ask: Anne Midgette offers an orientation for the curious.

The BBC ran a story yesterday about a computer at the University of Malaga in Spain, dubbed “Iamus” after a mythical Greek prophet who could translate birdsong, that’s capable of composing ...

The Kravis gift will also provide for a bi-annual grant of $250,000 to a working composer (which the Philharmonic describes as “among the largest for any prize in new music”) starting in 2011.

Modern and contemporary classical music, at least a good deal of it, is a problem for many listeners, to put it mildly. Some reject it outright, resistant to it before the get-go.