Attend the New York or Los Angeles Philharmonic and you’ll see passionate conductors and technically impeccable players focus their tremendous energies on aged, sometimes deteriorating sheets of paper ...

I started playing piano when I was 5 years old. My piano teacher was a quiet man at the local church. On Sundays, he would accompany the choir, and throughout the week he would see student after ...

‘The store was my little stage,’ says Frank Music’s gregarious owner Heidi Rogers, who has witnessed the shop’s demise as it struggled in the internet age On Thursday, the bronze bell on the door of ...

From Beethoven’s aching solo piano works to Tchaikovsky’s swelling ballet themes, here’s our guide to the pieces we think are the perfect place to start, on your journey into classical music.