This hilarious video by Rachel Krehm and Opera Five pokes fun at Air Canada’s arbitrary musical instrument baggage policy. Where logic fails, satire begins.

This is footage was shot at a private party at Joshua Bell’s home in NYC (seen snickering in the background) in 2011. Performing is professional whistler Michael Barimo – who hits the deadly high F in Mozart’s Queen of the Night Aria with ease.  For more, check out a New York Times profile about him here.

Tenor fail for the win.

Yeah, I get it. This is another cute kitty fart video. But this is what happens after the holidays, and you're catching up on all the composing you thought you'd get done, but didn't. It seems this ultra-cute kitty has other ideas, which is to say, this cat is trying to tell you something. Anyway, enjoy.

In celebration of Earth Day, we give you a few classical music pieces inspired by Planet Earth.

Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro has some advice for the 2015 graduating class of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

 

Mother and daughter perform the first movement of Bach's Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor, and the results are astonishing!

We’ve all heard about the story behind the Rite of Spring première riots. It was all just too much too fast for an audience wondering where Ravel went. In this video you will see Stravinsky play his famous”Rite of Spring” poly-chord for ten minutes. Phillip Glass, can relate. For those post-tonal theory geeks out there, the chord basically an Eb dominant seventh chord in first inversion played alongside a Fb major triad with the root doubled at the octave.

BBC Orchestra Trumpet players have it out with Leonard Bernstein during rehearsal.