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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Hip-hop and classical music might seem worlds apart, but this orchestra concert works to seamlessly merge the two genres in a way you’ve never experienced before. “The music pulls from both hip-hop ...

In the sprawling landscape of contemporary music, where genre boundaries increasingly blur into irrelevance, Black Violin emerges as something genuinely exceptional—a classical-meets-hip-hop ...

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American pianist and composer Chloe Flower is on a mission to get young people into classical music. She’s doing it by collaborating with rap, house and pop stars, and creating her own genre of music, ...

"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 ...