RZA, the legendary founding member of Wu-Tang Clan, is embarking on a remarkable journey of artistic evolution. He has recently produced a symphonic ballet score titled “A Ballet Through Mud,” which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Classical instruments and orchestrations aren't unknown in hip-hop music, but nobody mingles those sounds like the Illharmonic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The latest trend in hip-hop has the genre going highbrow. More than a half-century since it started, the most popular genre in the ...

Ezinma knows there are barriers to entry when it comes to classical music: Not everyone feels welcome. “Sometimes when people go to the concert hall, they hear classical music, and they feel stupid ...

Overland Park teenager Kevin Li has diverse musical tastes including playing his clarinet, listening to hip-hop and making beats. Christy L'Esperance speaks with Kevin about how he got started in ...

Jeffrey McNeill, otherwise known as Thee Phantom (right), performs with his partner Andrea Coln McNeill at Carnegie Hall in New York. The duo behind the Illharmonic Orchestra is set to perform in ...

For the third year in a row, the Phoenix Symphony will close out its season on May 29 and 30 with a classical/rap fusion, this time blending the music of Igor Stravinsky’s ballet masterpiece ...

The Energy Corridor of Houston Orchestra, ECHO for short, is a living, breathing example of the little engine that could, only in symphonic mode. The small but mighty organization, which started as an ...

The viola player/vocalist and violinist, respectively, behind the Grammy-nominated fusion group Black Violin began playing together in the 1990s, during their days at the Dillard High School of the ...

Classical instruments and orchestrations aren’t unknown in hip-hop music, but nobody mingles those sounds like the Illharmonic Orchestra. On Nov. 22, the New York-based ensemble is playing the Shubert ...

"We’re helping hip-hop and classical music grow and expand beyond their boundaries," Cypress Hill's "Sen Dog" says. By Roy Trakin The latest trend in hip-hop has the genre going highbrow. More than a ...