GRAND RAPIDS, MI — For the first time, Michigan is hosting the Latvian Song and Dance Festival, with Grand Rapids serving as ...

What is the sound of 21st century classical music? What does it mean to be a composer in an age that’s seemingly post-everything? Every week on Mixtapes, Q2 Music asks one of today’s active and “big A ...

Wednesday, July 26, is the birthday of Jazeps Vitols: composer, critic, educator, the father of Latvian classical music — and an example of how political histories retroactively affect fame. Vitols ...

They're young, they're Latvian, and together they are turning their tiny Baltic nation into a musical superpower. As a new opera season approaches, Latvian musicians are set to continue their ...

The Baltic country is streets ahead of us, and its international reputation confirms that. But could we adopt the same policies? Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author ...