Many people, if they wonder how music is made up, suppose that it consists of a tune and an accompaniment. The paradigmatic guitarist in front of a campfire croons the melody, while his hands create ...

JUST before this year’s Super Bowl, a Philadelphia Eagles devotee sat down at an organ and started to play. There were more melodies than the average fan may have been used to, but the instrument soon ...

Classical music is often described as “pure”, “timeless” and “intellectual”, three epithets guaranteed to make most music-lovers reach for the off button in panic. Fortunately they’re not true. If ...

The news Sunday afternoon was a prodigious live performance of arguably the least performable and unarguably greatest contrapuntal exercise in the history of music, Bach’s “The Art of the Fugue,” by ...

Following the sad news that the Bach-loving jazz pianist Jacques Loussier has died, we've delved into the archive to find one of his most irresistible performances Jacques Loussier, the jazz pianist ...

On a sunny Wednesday afternoon in March, the light through Trinity Episcopal Cathedral’s stained-glass windows is a cool, heathered blue. The building’s dark wood interior muffles the sounds of ...

Pure musical inspiration as a jazz song overflows with Baroque counterpoint, with the effortless cool that could only come from Nina Simone. We know Nina Simone as an icon of 20th-century music: a ...