Jennifer Gersten, a doctoral student in violin performance at Stony Brook University, is an editor at Guernica and the winner of the 2018 Rubin Prize for Music Criticism. Follow @jenwgersten Let the ...

More than two decades after Don Campbell published The Mozart Effect, debate continues over whether listening to classical music can raise your IQ. Most studies into whether quiet music for kids – or, ...

A few nights ago I was fortunate enough to listen to the New York Philharmonic play a beautiful program of Schumann and Brahms at Segerstrom Center for the Arts. At a dinner graciously hosted by a ...

If classical music really sounded as it’s described in radio ads, its composers would have fallen asleep while writing it. “You’ve found an oasis – a place where you can get away from all the ...

Musician and critic Jennifer Gersten wants us to transform the way we think about classical music. Perceived by many as “inaccessible, elitist, incomprehensible,” the genre is often marketed by ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by critic’s notebook With performances silenced by the coronavirus, our chief classical music critic has been left wishing for more sound, not less. By ...