A blind teenager blew acclaimed classical pianist Lang Lang away when she showcased her incredible piano playing skills, leaving viewers in tears by her talent.

Source: https://metro.co.uk/2023/02/16/the-piano-blind-13-year-old-leaves-mika-speechless-with-performance-18293420/

According to classical music event database Bachtrack, the work of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt is, once again, the most performed of any living composer in the world.

Source: https://news.err.ee/1608846217/global-estonian-report-january-11-18

After you tire of pop music in your mid-20s, you dip your toes into classical music with Tchaikovsky and then go on a trajectory of Puccini, Verdi, Beethoven and Mozart among others and only begin to develop an appreciation of Wagner in later life.

Source: https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/07/02/wagner-groups-ride-of-the-valkyries-a-damp-squib/

A group of young people are hoping classical music played in public might inspire a generation of enthusiasts to reach deep into the canon and pick out a new favourite tune.

Source: https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/taking-classical-people

All company dancers receive the highest caliber of professional training on a weekly basis and are provided the opportunity to learn standard classical repertoire.

Source: https://www.ospreyobserver.com/2023/04/brandon-ballet-awards-the-2023-richard-munro-memorial-scholarship-to-juliette-laxton/

All of the citizenry, including the powerful, needed to be habituated to the virtue that accorded with this classical ideal of freedom, and the guardrails helped with that education for liberty.

Source: https://www.deseret.com/2023/6/15/23728039/populism-vs-liberalism

Almost three decades later, Alessi asked the widely loved jazz keyboardist and composer Chick Corea, who was enmeshed with classical music throughout his life, to create a trombone concerto.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/26/arts/music/review-new-york-philharmonic-chick-corea-trombone-concerto.html

And in terms of making a movie and classical three-act structure and conflict and all those things, I thought that the most mundane teenage life in Oakland is more dramatic than half the movies that I’m watching.

Source: https://thefilmstage.com/cauleen-smith-on-restoring-drylongso-the-mundanity-of-violence-and-scotch-tape-filmmaking/

And you quote David Konstan, the classical scholar, who talks about that issue in his book, Before Forgiveness: The Origins of a Moral Idea.

Source: https://therealnews.com/repairing-americas-trauma-epidemic-by-confronting-sexual-violence

An enigmatic figure, Socrates authored no texts and is known mainly through the posthumous accounts of classical writers, particularly his students Plato and Xenophon.

Source: https://greekreporter.com/2023/08/31/socrates-views-death-help-deal-with-fear/

Apple claims that it is also working closely with some classical music artists and renowned music institutions to offer listeners exclusive content and recordings at launch.

Source: https://www.gadgets360.com/apps/news/apple-music-classical-streaming-service-app-launching-march-3849386

Apple is launching a new music streaming service focused on classical music.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/09/apple-launches-its-new-classical-music-streaming-app-for-pre-order/

Are expensive classical guitars worth it?

Source: https://americansongwriter.com/best-high-end-classical-guitars/

Astana Ballet’s orchestra charmed its audience with vibrant jazz, classical and contemporary hits in an original interpretation during the Non Classica show program on June 16.

Source: https://astanatimes.com/2023/06/astana-ballet-reinterprets-conventional-pieces-at-non-classica-concert/

As with many artists who ranged between pop and classical styles — Bernstein, Gershwin and André Previn among them — Brubeck had trouble maintaining an audience for the full scope of his output.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/24/arts/music/dave-brubeck-cantata-the-gates-of-justice.html

Available in five colours, it’s canopy is stretched across 24 fibreglass ribs, to give it the classical, beautiful form.

Source: https://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/recommended/garden-furniture/best-garden-parasols-umbrellas-uk-3143029

A visitor inside one of Berghain’s cavernous spaces, where the composer Sergej Newski said he has seen many other classical musicians.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/arts/music/berghain-berlin-classical-music.html

Between them the Carnival Band’s musicians have a track record in folk, contemporary, classical, baroque, medieval and Arabic music.

Source: https://www.tivysideadvertiser.co.uk/news/23457370.cardigans-mwldan-hosts-maddy-prior-carnival-band/?ref=rss

Bodhana is currently the world's third-highest rated player born in 2015 in classical chess.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12883691/British-schoolgirl-wins-best-female-player-European-chess-championships-aged-just-EIGHT-beating-master-30-years-older-her.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

But also capturing headlines are the heat waves’ evocative appellations, all straight out of classical mythology.

Source: https://qz.com/the-hellacious-names-of-italys-heat-waves-are-being-cho-1850657851