Editor’s Note: Charlie Albright is a classical pianist and recipient of the 2014 Avery Fisher Career Grant and 2010 Gilmore Young Artist Award. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his. The ...

“Classical music in America is dead.” Those words rang out across the Internet last week; their source, a Slate article written by Mark Vanhoenacker, complete with a gravestone illustration and the ...

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