Welcome to the Classics Section of UW's Department of Modern & Classical Languages. As a department of world languages, literatures, and cultural studies, we prepare our students for life and careers ...

Gabriela Ortiz, the Crossing, Víkingur Ólafsson and Karen Slack are among this year’s cohort of Grammy-winning classical ...

Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to the period that started in the mid-1970s to early 1990s, which includes modernist, postmodern, neoromantic, and pluralist music. However, ...

From Billy Joel’s inability to resist a good Beethoven melody to Lady Gaga’s sampling of rhapsodic violin solos, here are the greatest examples of classical samples in pop. In 19 cases of chicken and ...