Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Listen to all the moods from the grand master of Western classical music: consoling, rousing, peaceful, passionate. In the past we’ve chosen the ...

So why has ‘classical’ stuck? ‘Classical’ seems to work as a catch-all term of Western art music genres because it evokes this Classical, ordered era of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven in which so many ...

Much of the Western classical music we enjoy today came into being as a result of the patronage system. But that music is really an ongoing gift from the wealthy, music-loving arts enthusiasts of ...

Throughout the “Apeshit” video, Beyoncé and Jay-Z repeatedly upstage some of Western classical art’s most famous images in one of its central sacred spaces.

Classical music arouses few of the political and nationalist sensitivities that have made it harder for other kinds of Western culture or media to take root in China.

The BBC went to see them in action and to hear how they're winning over audiences with their fusion of African and Western classical art forms. Video journalist: Sulley Lansah.

But classical music was essentially an art form of the Raj, and came close to dying out after independence in 1947. And yet there was genuine enthusiasm around the BBC SSO’s tour – an ...