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classical music
December 10, 2020
Robert Jackson Wood
The Stubborn Classism of Classical Music
What critics get wrong about the genre’s long-standing diversity problems
February 1, 2017
Daniel Estrin
Breaking Elgar’s Enigma
Did a violin teacher from Plano, Texas solve the world's greatest classical music mystery?
March 3, 2015
Christopher Beam
Phantom of the Orchestra
Mamoru Samuragochi’s story hit all the right notes: a deaf genius whose music inspired a nation. But the “Japanese Beethoven” wasn’t who he seemed.
June 14, 2014
David Hajdu
In Praise of Beautiful Music
There's nothing edgy about Maria Schneider's big-band orchestra, but there's nothing wrong with that
August 26, 2013
Philip Kennicott
America’s Orchestras are in Crisis
How an effort to popularize classical music undermines what makes orchestras great.
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