One warm summer day, I met the composer Caroline Shaw in New York City, where we spent an hour in Central Park talking about her music. Not long after we found a bench, it began to rain, lightly at ...

The Major Writing Requirement is a writing assignment done as an extra part of a course. The assignment is designed so you can practice your writing and get instructor feedback. This will help shape ...

Ellie Goulding is writing a classical album. The 'Starry Eyed' hitmaker is "always" writing new songs but is looking to take her music in a number of different directions because as well as moving ...

This month marks the publication of Best Music Writing 2011, the annual anthology of top-notch scribing about music—2010 pieces by the likes of Nitsuh Abebe, Ann Powers, and Jessica Hopper are ...

Why is writing about classical music so difficult? I'm not talking about writing about the culture of classical music, its economics, sociology and politics - but about the music itself. How do you ...