Gruber says that as of launch, Apple has more classical music available than any other streaming service: "We have a database which has 20,000 composers, more than 100,000 unique works, 300,000 ...

Students will study classical works in art, history, science, literature, and math from their original sources and learn about the historical context of the author.

The RPS commissions about 10 classical works a year, while the BBC is reputedly the biggest supporter of new classical compositions in the world. Radio 3 spends £400,000 a year on new pieces.

Historian Violet Moller’s “The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found” re-creates the pathways by which scientific and philosophical texts were ...