However, something was lacking in my musical background — namely classical music. This was all but unknown to my parents and their friends. True, I think my mother had one friend whose husband was ...

The Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, who died in 2023, wrote music of profoundly shadowed seriousness, and her ironically ...

A tense scene unfolds in a blockbuster film, the mood heightened not by thundering sound effects, but by the precise, haunting notes of a solo violin. This marriage of classical artistry and modern ...

The Truman Show follows the title character as he slowly but surely makes a disturbing discovery about his reality, and the reason why he only listens to classical music is heavily linked to it and ...