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Jennifer Gersten, a doctoral student in violin performance at Stony Brook University, is an editor at Guernica and the winner of the 2018 Rubin Prize for Music Criticism. Follow @jenwgersten Let the ...

Today is National Relaxation Day, and we've got lots of music to help you relax, even if you can't take a nap, including Gershwin's Lullaby, and a suite from Tchaikovsky's ballet Sleeping Beauty. Tune ...

Indulge in three hours of relaxing classical music to accompany your day and soothe your soul. This edition features chamber music from Elisabeth Kuyper and Chiquinha Gonzaga, choral favourites from ...

This post is part of Hard Refresh, a soothing weekly column where we try to cleanse your brain of whatever terrible thing you just witnessed on Twitter. To the extent that "relaxing" online is ...

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, ...