Whether you have a favorite seat at the symphony or you aren’t quite sure of the difference between a violin and a viola, the sound of contemporary classical music can elicit feelings of discomfort.

This fall’s classical music calendar teems with 21st century music inspired by today’s political and spiritual concerts, written by composers from far beyond the usual Central European haunts — ...

Bach, Beethoven and Brahms are brilliant, but there’s something to be said for more recent music by living composers. The Johnstone Fund for New Music offers just that – bold new works by ...

Not long ago, going to a classical music concert in Portland almost certainly meant spending a couple hours in the musical company of long dead European composers. Not anymore! Over the past decade, ...

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Nancy Galbraith has been publishing her orchestral musical compositions since 1979. But even four-plus decades is a drop in the bucket, compared to the centuries’ worth of classical music written over ...

Answers: Thad Anderson, Brandon Kyle Miller, Caitlin Pequignot, Beatriz Ramirez and Chris Belt Credit: photo courtesy of the band The term “contemporary classical” — both words, together — is the very ...

I share many of Barton Swaim’s views on modern classical music, but he is wrong to lump Igor Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” in with music he says no one wants (“Songs Without Listeners,” Bookshelf, ...