(Jeff Pachoud/Getty Images) Classical music is a tougher nut to crack ... music is definitely enhanced by an understanding of the words. 9 amazing covers of Franz Schubert songs There's no ...

This is the first in a series of posts about appreciating classical music ... and because of the image. In today's world, the lovely words "opera" and "symphony" are redolent with snobbery.

It’s a word that conjures up images of the Ancient world ... And it’s not only classical music that’s doing this, by the way: jazz, rock, folk and all the rest are now full of “classics”.

Apple Music Classical, the classical music streaming service introduced in early 2023, received a version 2.0 update today that brings a couple of worthwhile new features to the iPhone and iPad app.

This could be fixed through more consistent album descriptions, or an option to enlarge album covers to make the words ... classical music, and many features are aimed at shedding its elitist image.