classical music

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Jenkins is the UK's best-selling classical music star, and a frequent performer for the Royal Family.

From BBC

Glass, 88, is seen as the greatest living US composer and perhaps the most influential in the post-World War II era, shattering long-held linear conceptions of classical music and enthusiastically incorporating non-Western forms.

From Barron's

“The German authorities at Auschwitz I”—the main camp of the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex—“had a good knowledge of classical music and incurred considerable costs to acquire musical instruments, scores and sheet music.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The horse clopping sound seemed loud, louder than the faint classical music that she supposed had been paired with the film.

From Literature

She panicked one night when classical music was played on the radio – similar to music played on Rwandan radio the night the genocide began.

From BBC