With our 56th annual Newport Classical Music Festival having drawn to a close this week, I find myself already looking ahead ...

Founded in 1969 as Boston's first ensemble devoted to contemporary music, BMV has been presenting invigorating programs since, each usually featuring at least one world premiere.

The ongoing growth of modern classical music, a cause long championed by Columbus community leaders Jack and Zoe Johnstone, led to the creation of the Johnstone Fund for New Music. Since 2008, the ...

Composers and musicians in the world of contemporary classical music have compared it to abstract art. In contrast to the flowing, musically descriptive melodies of the classical composers of past ...

In the vibrant tapestry of contemporary music, few artists weave threads as intricate and culturally resonant as Dr. E ...

Here are twelve Black contemporary composers who are continuing this tradition, expanding and exploring what modern classical music has to offer. Valerie Coleman (b. 1970) An artist at the forefront ...

Arcade, a new project by Classical California, aims to dispel preconceptions about classical music and video game soundtracks. By Jason M. Bailey A treacherous puzzle that lies near the end of ...

I share many of Barton Swaim’s views on modern classical music, but he is wrong to lump Igor Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” in with music he says no one wants (“Songs Without Listeners ...

The highlight of the Voices’ concert was Stockhausen’s “Freude,” while the DSO concert featured mostly pleasant and unchallenging works.

Access Contemporary Music broke ground on its Lake View location in December, and the venue is expected to open this year. The site, at 4116 N. Clark St., is a former 7-Eleven that’s sat vacant ...

This restless, uncertain, and ironic quality permeates almost all of Adams’s work. He has consistently pushed classical music to engage with the world of politics and contemporary social issues.