Overland Park teenager Kevin Li has diverse musical tastes including playing his clarinet, listening to hip-hop and making beats. Christy L'Esperance speaks with Kevin about how he got started in ...

The free Summer and Music concert series continued in Long Beach over the weekend with "Classical Beats"; a fusion of hip-hop and classical violin provided by Paul Dateh and DJ Inka One. If the name ...

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 ...

MUSKEGON, MI - The Frauenthal Center is preparing to welcome two Grammy-nominated artists, Kev Marcus and Wil Baptiste of Black Violin, for an entertaining night of classical sounds and modern hip-hop ...

The cool breeze off the Potomac River convinced the crowds at this year’s D.C. Jazz Festival from June 9-18 to dance – even as the temperatures crossed 90 degrees – as soon as “Kev Marcus” Sylvester ...

LANSING — Rodney Page was helping out with a musical at St. Johns High School when an older gentleman approached him. He wanted Page to join his country band as a fiddler. Page, a classically trained ...

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 ...

BEIJING (AP) — First there was the explosive hip-hop beat drop, then a bold rap verse proclaiming, “The greatest of all time!” It couldn’t have described Nathan Chen any better. On the barren sheet of ...

Turning the ballet on its head, The Hip Hop Nutcracker relocates the traditional holiday story to urban, contemporary New York City, the performers break dancing and popping and locking to the ...

As the samples utilized in hip-hop spinoffs like drill and Jersey club have gotten wilder and wilder, it was only a matter of time until someone reached way back and started plugging in classical ...

Kevin Sylvester wasn’t thrilled when his mom made him join the orchestra in elementary school. "My whole life I thought it was like ballerina music," he explained. "Classical music didn’t relate to me ...