John Eliot Gardiner is stepping down from three renowned period groups he founded, after he was accused of hitting a singer last year.
When listeners were given the power to program an orchestral concert, the results were surprising.
Serge Koussevitzky, a prolific commissioner born 150 years ago, made his mark not only on the Boston Symphony Orchestra, but also on American music.
Jonathon Heyward wears sneakers onstage and embraces genres like jazz as part of his effort to bring more people into the concert hall.
Gary Ginstling, the orchestra’s president and chief executive, is leaving after just a year on the job.
The famed California hip-hop group played with the London Symphony Orchestra — 28 years after “The Simpsons” dreamed up the collaboration.
The coastal festival, founded by the composer and Peter Pears in the 1940s, has built a reputation for rich, forward-looking programming.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra gave its first concerts of the Tanglewood season, which is already showing signs of its new leader’s ambitions.
The Aix Festival is presenting a new version of “Samson,” a never-performed work by Rameau and Voltaire, two of France’s most important cultural figures.
Beethoven’s aspirational vision of unity and peace can be applied to virtually any situation or place. The music makes sure of that.
A new podcast explores an array of items from the 133-year-old hall’s archive, like Ella Fitzgerald’s glasses and an opening-night ticket.
Davóne Tines plays Paul Robeson in a solo show on Little Island that weaves together the words and music of this American hero to tell his story.
This season, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin experimented with programming works by female composers at every performance. Results were mixed.
He carved out a niche by singing the music of living composers from his own country. He was praised by critics at home and abroad.
He arrived on a mission to reshape the ensemble as its music director. Now, as he departs, he’s still making sense of his pandemic-interrupted tenure.
Covid brought live performance to a halt. Now the audience for pop concerts and sporting events has roared back, while attendance on Broadway and at some major museums is still down.
Patrick Milando, an accomplished French horn player, now splits his time between the orchestra pit and the cockpit, where he teaches budding pilots like he himself once was.
“Angel Island,” an oratorio by Huang Ruo, brings to life the stark poetry of the people who were detained on the California island in the early 1900s.
Gary Graffman, who is turning 95, is a man of many enthusiasms, including citrus infusions.
“It seemed like a switch flipped right before Thanksgiving,” the leader of the Chicago Symphony said.
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After one holiday season lost to the pandemic and another curtailed by Omicron, seasonal staples including “The Nutcracker,” “A Christmas Carol” and “Messiah” are back in force.
The benefits of group (music) therapy.
Many arts groups, worried about alienating older patrons, have maintained strict rules. Now “the time has come to move on,” one leader said.
Attendance lagged in the comeback season, as the challenges posed by the coronavirus persisted. Presenters hope it was just a blip.
The Wu Tsai Theater will honor a $50 million gift from Joseph Tsai, a founder of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, and Clara Wu Tsai, a philanthropist.
The decision will make San Antonio the largest American city without a major orchestra.
The decision will make San Antonio the largest American city without a major orchestra.
As it ended a challenging pandemic return, the Met had one last marathon: a matinee, an evening performance, and then moving out as American Ballet Theater moved in.
After a stronger-than-expected season, the orchestra said it would reverse pay cuts imposed at the height of the pandemic.
Amid a labor battle, the continuing pandemic and war in Ukraine, it often felt as though the real drama was in simply putting on a show.