The best Christmas music is heartwarming. The Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s “Christmas Canon” is a shockingly cynical rebrand of an earlier piece of classical music. The tune is awful — but it’ll stick ...

The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra was founded in Bach’s home city, and its charter members were musicians often in his employ. The orchestra premiered Beethoven’s “Emperor Concerto” and presented the ...

If there were a musical equivalent of alternative history writing, Harry Partch would be its best-known author. A hobo in his teen years during the 1920s, Partch grew up to be one of the twentieth ...