Many studies have been done over the years demonstrating music’s capacity to boost motivation, focus, and memory capacity, ...

Rising star pianist Arsha Kaviani took one of classical music's most formidable pieces of music, Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto ...

Looking for the music to help you through exam season and beyond? We asked star singer Laufey about the music she likes to turn to when she wants to focus - from the piano sonatas of Mozart and Bach's ...

Aging sucks. One of the many reasons is that your memory goes to hell. In an accompanying article, Dr. Lynn Webster wonders whether taking up the drums at age 75 might help preserve his brain. That ...

As the Bayreuth festival turns 150, we look at the composer’s huge and enduring influence, and wonder what might have happened to classical music in his absence? One hundred and fifty years ago this ...

Starting the violin can feel a little unfamiliar at first, especially when you don’t know which songs are simple enough to learn early on. That’s why choosing the right easy violin songs matters so ...

As the World Cup gets underway, we look at the music that has soundtracked the beautiful game – and the composers who have loved it France ’98, when Scotland last faced Morocco at a World Cup – as ...

The word “festival” derives from the Latin word for a religious ceremony and morphed into words having more to do with eating (“feast”) and simply having a good time — all of which make sense when it ...

From July 2-19, 2026, the Newport Classical Music Festival will again turn this “City by the Sea” into a summer destination for music lovers, featuring 30 concerts across 11 unforgettable venues, from ...

There hasn’t been a lot of great news in the classical music world of late. The Metropolitan Opera is in grim financial straits. President Donald Trump has run the Kennedy Center into the ground and ...

Tinashe shared a new single, “Too Easy.” The thumping track was co-produced by Kimj and Zack Sekoff, and sees Tinashe bragging about her fame. The singer first teased the song during her DJ set at at ...

Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. Payam ...