BLKBOK performs with Rihanna in Atlantic City on July 17, 2011. Neo-classical pianist and composer BLKBOK (Charles Wilson III) found his calling at age six while performing a Mozart piece on the piano ...

From Billy Joel’s inability to resist a good Beethoven melody to Lady Gaga’s sampling of rhapsodic violin solos, here are the greatest examples of classical samples in pop. In 19 cases of chicken and ...

Taipei and Los Angeles-based Organic Media Group has picked up rights to U.S.-produced classical music documentary title “Crescendo” and will be launching it at the European Film Market, which ...

Apple's iPhone alarm tunes usually just wake people up, but musician Tony Ann was inspired to develop one into a full classical piano track lasting more than two minutes. Play Tony Ann's YouTube video ...

The vast gulf we now perceive between classical and popular music didn’t exist a century or even half a century ago. Music was music. Then as now, a vastly larger audience preferred the popular kind — ...

In these two film excerpts from Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love, Marvin Hamlisch and his peers discuss his early musical talent and his childhood classical training. He loved popular music and ...

March 22 -- In Play Piano in a Flash musician Scott Houston says it does not have to take years to learn how to play the piano like a pro, in a style that is much simpler than traditional classic ...

Paul Smith is the co-artistic director of the group Blush Opera, which sometimes produces concerts and events featuring toy pianos. A child’s toy may seem like an unlikely candidate for the classical ...

The classical equivalent to a pop “supergroup” assembles at the Southbank Centre for piano trios by Rachmaninov, Ravel and ...