Music

Pieces and stories from the world of music.

Channels

• Inside the Score (Channel) — video essays that unpack how classical and film composers actually work, from John Williams’s key changes and Tchaikovsky’s climaxes to what makes a score move you.

Opera

• Belfagor (Article) — Respighi’s 1923 opera, premiered at La Scala: an archdemon is sent up from hell to test whether marriage is really as bad as the damned claim, disguises himself as a rich nobleman, and is ultimately foiled by bells that ring of their own accord.