Music Genres

It's quite possible to enjoy (or disdain) the music without thinking or knowing anything about music theory. A little bit Charles Ives, a little bit Raymond Scott, a little bit Looney Tunes, it conjures a fusion – really a plurality of fusions – all its own, and all with tongue in cheek.

Reviewed: "Unwanted," the latest from outlaw country singer Dale Watson, and "Wake," a new CD from the multitalented Dirk Powell.

Kudos to these musicians and the Chamber Music Society for dusting off an extraordinary creation by Joachim Raff and giving it a fair and muscular airing.

There's a lot of pain and grief here, but it has inspired a suite of eclectic and eccentric chamber music that's almost operatic.

The Dover Quartet brought fervor and excitement to music both familiar and not-so-familiar, including a string quartet by the great 20th-century Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz.

If you've never heard of Dan Penn, one reason is probably that you’re not the sort of person who reads songwriting credits.

Taiwanese masterworks, cross-cultural collaborations, and world premieres will celebrate Taiwan's cultural heritage and Indigenous communities as well as links between East and West.

Smith's warm and nimble rendition set the tone: yearning in the slow sections, fiery in the faster ones, and always restrained enough to let Beethoven's notes speak for themselves.

It's as if the violin can't stop swatting at mosquitos while the cello sings a sad, halting, unmoored kind of song.

A new two-CD set called "American Dream" takes us back to Mellencamp's Johnny Cougar days, when the singer was a household name mainly just in his own household.