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Classical 101The My Lai Massacre is one of the Vietnam War’s most notorious episodes. Now a new recording again brings awareness to the massacre and the U.S. Army officer who tried to bring it to a halt.
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Classical 101Proposals to cut funding for the arts pop up in seemingly every federal budget discussion. A recent proposal suggested eliminating the National Endowment…
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Classical 101Proposals to cut funding for the arts pop up in seemingly every federal budget discussion. A recent proposal suggested eliminating the National Endowment…
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Classical 101In a world where there seem to be daily stories about disappearing funding for the Arts, Kronos Quartet has a solution...give it away.In a project called…
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Classical 101The Quartet's Fifty for the Future project will commission 50 pieces by as many composers. Then the scores and instructional videos will be free online.
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Classical 101Earlier this year, I shared a "musical mashup" by Grant Woolard, consisting of 57 classical melodies from 33 different composers. It was quite fun trying…