Friday morning at 9:00, Classical New Orleans will present a full hour of music from the 1930s. You'll hear the first orchestral composition by Samuel Barber (1931); an early piano trio by Leonard ...

Two contrasting masterpieces from the 1930s made up the bulk of it: Walton’s Violin Concerto (premiered in 1939) and the symphony (first heard in 1935). They make a remarkable contrast. Wilson began ...

Few art forms on earth are more indebted to class privilege than Western classical music. For most of its history, it has relied on monarchs, aristocrats, and wealthy patrons even to exist. We have ...