Ever since the music industry emerged as a mass commercial enterprise, musicians have waded between that "popular" music and classical (mostly uncommercial) music. In today’s mix, we sample music by musicians who have been at the top of the music industry but have refused to be defined by it.
Have a favorite musical depiction of weather? Composers today are increasingly attuned to climate change and extreme weather events. Global warming has been a political issue for years; now it is arriving center stage in music.
The guitar is an instrument that goes everywhere and plays every kind of music. In this playlist, though, we concentrate on Spanish classical guitar as well as Brazil’s extraordinarily diverse, famous guitarists and their music.
If you’re looking for a musical maverick, look no further than the instrument builder, composer, and theorist Cris Forster. Here’s a tour, with video, of his inventions and his ideas.
Teddy Abrams, 26, is an established musician with a lot of good sense about what being a musician means. Here he talks about the challenges of a career in an interview with SFCV.
Naxos is offering the track "Rossini: Guillaume Tell (William Tell): Overture: Finale" from My First Classical Music Album for SFCV readers to download and enjoy.
Here, subject to correction and amplification by any 10- to 40-year-old with expertise, is a set of music to some of the most popular video games ever.
