Classical instruments and orchestrations aren’t unknown in hip-hop music, but nobody mingles those sounds like the Illharmonic Orchestra. On Nov. 22, the New York-based ensemble is playing the Shubert ...
Music and art programs are dropping out of Miami Dade Public Schools like flies hit by a cloud of Raid. Lucky for us, the private sector is stepping in with programs like Piano Slam to patch the ...
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Even in his earliest days as a 24-year-old composer fresh out of conservatory, Steve Hackman was already thinking outside the box. His artistic vision continues today with programs like “Tchaikovsky X ...
Any music act with a unique sound — such as Black Violin’s fusion of classical and hip-hop — is bound to sound familiar from album to album. But violinist Kev Marcus sees a definite difference between ...
Forget what you know about classical music: Black Violin breathe a new life into the genre with each performance. In their only Connecticut tour stop at The Ridgefield Playhouse on Sunday, April 10, ...
This is something you won’t see every day at a concert billed as “classical”: a DJ working the turntables. Or a drummer banging out a solo in classic rock ‘n’ roll fashion, set against the backdrop of ...
"We’re helping hip-hop and classical music grow and expand beyond their boundaries," Cypress Hill's "Sen Dog" says. By Roy Trakin The latest trend in hip-hop has the genre going highbrow. More than a ...
There’s a story that used to make the rounds in the sheet music business about legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman making a stop at the iconic Frank Music Company in New York City. The person who ...