The words aria and song are often used interchangeably – but are they really the same? Let’s clear up the confusion, breaking down what sets an aria apart, where the terms overlap, and why it all ...

Their first ten years include performances for such dignitaries as Pope Francis, the Dali Lama, the Royal Family of Serbia, and the President of the UN. In the early 1920s, musician and physicist Lev ...

Russell Platt was the classical music editor of Goings On About Town from 2000 until 2018, when he joined the music faculty of Vanderbilt University. The magazine’s first pop-music critic was never ...