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Editors note: For our annual year-in-review issue, we asked our regular arts writers to hold forth on anything they found significant for 2006. Classical music in 2006 is not the same as classical ...

Music is often thought of as an auditory art form, but its influence extends beyond sound. Many students find that music has a visual aspect, shaping the way they perceive and interact with the world.

But, counterintuitive though it might seem, I don’t think sound is always a helpful way to understand genre. I’m a composer and conductor in the field that’s broadly known as Western classical music, ...

Few art forms on earth are more indebted to class privilege than Western classical music. For most of its history, it has relied on monarchs, aristocrats, and wealthy patrons even to exist. We have ...