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An SMU and UCLA study suggests there’s a strong correlation between how we experience music and how we empathize with those around us.

Blind auditions increase the likelihood that a female musician will be hired by 30%. But fair treatment isn’t always a given.

The slow-motion footage was shot during a performance of Wieniawski’s Scherzo Tarantelle … and still looks pretty fast.

Ravel’s orchestration of Mussorgsky’s “Pictures” might be the most famous, but Mikhail Tushmalov did it first, more than 30 years earlier.

No matter who you’re rooting for on Sunday, we’ve got a short playlist that will capture the drama.

The Incredibles movies are nothing without their nostalgia-tinted big band scores. Take a look behind the magic with this footage from an Incredibles 2 scoring session.

The conductor and a musician don’t see eye-to-eye in this rehearsal of Elgar’s “Enigma Variations.”

Musicologist and double bassist John Varney has a new way of visualizing rhythm.

A lot of composers pursue formal musical education to help them on their artistic journeys. Here are six who didn’t.

Rockland Symphony Orchestra founder Ed Simons lived to 101, and was the oldest active conductor at the time of his death. Here’s what he had to say about the power of music.

"Yankee Doodle" is as American as apple pie. No surprise, then, that composers on both sides of the Atlantic have referenced it for centuries.

During a quick chat with the composer and pianist, he told us, among other things, why he’d choose the striking Stravinsky for a global must-listen.

Nils Lindberg was so incredibly moved by 'A Love Supreme' that he created his own choral version, which incorporates elements of the Coltrane classic.

Grete Stückgold recorded Mahler’s lied “Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?” four years after the composer’s death.

The BBC’s usage of the Turandot aria during the 1990 World Cup took it from the opera house to musical mainstay.

For a performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20, Mitsuko Uchida assumed conducting and soloist duties — and flipped seamlessly between both.

Amy Beach wrote this particular Romance for piano and violin, but evidently bass will do just fine.

Cellist Warren Oja has the perfect solution for when practice time meets dad time.

The piano / cello duo of Marnie and Patrick Laird put their own spin on the Simon and Garfunkel hit.

The American cellist obsesses over Italian food and cooking, and reveals how a bowl of cold sesame noodles landed him a spot in the Emerson String Quartet.