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The Audubon Society’s Francis Beidler Forest is the world’s largest untouched cypress-tupelo swamp, the perfect habitat for Prothonotary warblers,…

The Era of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, running roughly from about 1775 to 1820, is known to musical historians as the Classical Era. This era follows…

Today is November 6th, and it’s the birthday of two important figures in the history of music, one an American composer and bandleader, and the other a…

This week we’ll focus on interesting facts and stories about important musicians. The first interesting item about the French composer Ernest Chausson is…

The clarinet was the last of the principal woodwind instruments to join the orchestra. The modern clarinet evolved from earlier forms in the early…

What goes on in a performer's mind during a performance? In today's episode, Miles Hoffman talks about what simultaneous processes might be going on in a…

A famous music critic once referred to the French composer Maurice Ravel as “this most conscious, most naturally artificial of composers.” And in fact…

The term a cappella is one of the more familiar Italian terms we run into in the music world. When applied to vocal music, a cappella simply means…

Several centuries ago, it was common for violin makers to print their names in Latin on the paper labels they glued in their instruments. That’s what the…

It’s often—not always, but often—interesting to read what composers have written about composing—especially if they’re good writers. Aaron Copland was an…