That clean hit on my name came last Thanksgiving, and I’ve been turning it over in my head ever since. I’d been talking to my ...

This is an edition of the revamped Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. I love music, but I never learned to play an instrument (something I still ...

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, ...

In “Time’s Echo,” Jeremy Eichler knits together the history of the Holocaust and classical music before, during and after the cataclysm. Eichler explores two questions: How might we come to “know, ...

Sumana Ramanan’s book The Secret Master profiles Arun Kashalkar’s khayal journey, exploring classical music’s marginalised ...