In a high-concept meta bait-and-switch, Pam Tanowitz choreographed Beethoven’s Pastoral symphony, then swapped out the score for a new para-Pastoral, by Caroline Shaw. Anyone (okay, almost nobody) can ...

My album of the year came as a real surprise to me, Arvo Pärt’s output hitherto not leaving much of an impression. But Credo (Alpha Classics), from the Estonian Festival Orchestra under Pärt's ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Listen to recordings by Maria Dueñas and Daniil Trifonov, works by Thomas Adès and Tania León, and more. London Philharmonic Orchestra; Thomas Adès, ...

Donnacha Dennehy, ‘Land of Winter’; Alarm Will Sound, Alan Pierson, conductor (Nonesuch) How do you compose light? That was the task that the Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy took on in writing “Land ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Thinking outside the canon, and finding the gritty and the beautiful, within it. By Joshua Barone and Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim JOSHUA BARONE Few ...

Families in Miami-Dade seem increasingly interested in having their children study the classics — think Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. As classical education charter schools like True North move into ...

Eunice Framm, senior keeper of barnyard animals at the Cincinnati Zoo, has taught pigs to bowl, goats to paint, and red pandas to receive vaccines. She, and all other keepers, do so through the zoo’s ...

“In the District of Columbia, classical architecture shall be the preferred and default architecture for Federal public buildings absent exceptional factors necessitating another kind of architecture, ...

As new classical schools sprout nationwide, fueling a revival of liberal arts and virtues-based education, there is no reliable pipeline of trained teachers from which to recruit. Classical education ...

Watch how operant conditioning turns one curious cat into a musical prodigy. Science meets silliness. A Strange Gas-Pumping Defect Is Making $100,000 Corvettes Go Up in Flames Charlie Sheen was once a ...