Classical music has blessed us with timeless musical motifs, many of which have inspired later innovations — like the trill technique in heavy metal and groovy synth-pop beats. So many of the greatest ...

Violinist Rachel Barton Pine grew up on heavy metal bands Metallica and Megadeth. She brings that same intensity and drive to Beethoven. Hear it in his Violin Concerto, tonight on WSHU, 91.1, 107.5, ...

But, counterintuitive though it might seem, I don’t think sound is always a helpful way to understand genre. I’m a composer and conductor in the field that’s broadly known as Western classical music, ...