Why The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ Should Be Considered Classical Music

The Beatles album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” which turns 50 on June 1, the date of its original U.K. release, has been praised over and over again as a towering rock n’ roll achievement in the Beatles canon. But could it also be compared with works by the great classical composers? Kenneth Womack,... Read more » Shirley Halperin