“If there’s one thing that came out of the pandemic, it’s that musicianship is back,” said James Norkawich, a Glastonbury musician who has used the “down time” during the pandemic to explore a genre ...
Make it big. That seems to be the primary directive in the classical crossover genre. Perhaps your average American isn't going to become a classical music fan, but there's always an appeal to music ...
"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, ...
THE WEEK'S TOP-SELLING CLASSICAL CROSSOVER ALBUMS, BASED ON MULTIMETRIC CONSUMPTION, BLENDING TRADITIONAL ALBUM SALES, STREAMING-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS AND TRACK-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS, AS COMPILED BY LUMINATE.
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 ...
While the pandemic left a scar on the careers of many musicians and performers, it snuffed the life of one Il Divo member. The classical crossover male quartet lost one of its original members, ...
The Grammy Awards will be announced tonight, and here's some of what you won't see on TV: the five "Classical Crossover" contenders. Performance Today features excerpts from all five. 5. Evan Price's ...
Jon Batiste scores his first No. 1 on Billboard's Classical Albums chart, as his new project, Beethoven Blues, debuts atop the list dated Nov. 30. It's the first in a planned series of solo piano ...