Long-awaited returns by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Vienna Philharmonic, as well as notable debuts and visits from ...

Some composers—like John Adams, the author of The Dharma at Big Sur, Gnarly Buttons, and Slonimsky’s Earbox—can’t resist a catchy title. Edgar Meyer, on the other hand, seems to prefer keeping things ...

Nothing lasts forever, as Taylor Swift reminds us, be they relationships, careers, or music festivals. So it happened that the clock ran out Saturday on both the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s “Decoding ...

Long-awaited returns by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Vienna Philharmonic, as well as notable debuts and visits from Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Dianne Reeves, and others are among the highlights ...

Zander is a cellist by training and an enthusiasm for the instrument—as well as up-and-coming cellists—is a hallmark of his ...

Beware of ideas, Joseph Stalin once warned: they are more powerful than guns. “We would not let our enemies have guns,” he went on. “Why should we let them have ideas?” That statement might make a ...

There’s nothing like an anniversary to encourage an orchestra’s programming. Take Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Intent on marking the occasion of Dmitri Shostakovich’s death fifty ...

“What do you think this music is about?” Leonard Bernstein asked the audience during a 1958 Young People’s Concert on the subject of music and meaning. He then played a snatch of the William Tell ...