Naomi: The Classical period of music put an emphasis on elegance, balance and beauty. Classical composers largely worked between the years 1750 to around 1810 and this period was dominated by ...

“When I play, it helps me to forget about the situation I am in,” says the 16-year-old South African ... all with different fathers. Classical music has been his escape for three years.

One of the first people Delta David Gier met after being named music director of the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra in 2003 ...

who had come to South Dakota from the New York Philharmonic. “Also,” added Husboe, “there’s an opera.” That was news to Gier, an astute follower of 20th-century American classical music ...