When Chuck Berry first sang “Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news!” in 1956, he was trumpeting the rise of rock ‘n’ roll and, perhaps, forecasting the decline of classical music. Sixty-four ...

The Voyager I and II spacecraft were launched in 1977 with a mission to explore the solar system and beyond. Each had in its payload a golden record containing information about the human race for the ...

BALANCE Cahill’s training as a classical musician was based almost entirely on male composers, she said. She sees ‘The Future as Female’ as a counterweight to all-male programs. The names Clara ...

The first electronic music was classical music. Its practitioners—composers like John Cage, Edgard Varèse, Pierre Boulez—were entrenched in the Western classical tradition, and they mostly used ...