Lawrence Power’s instrument has been overlooked throughout its history. He has made a career of changing that.
Celebrate the Fourth of July with an address on the state of the hot dog, a chance to make ice cream the old-fashioned way and a film that offers up a peculiar slice of Americana.
Watch and listen to recent highlights, including “The Comet/Poppea,” a Dave Malloy song cycle and a soprano’s surprise turn at the Metropolitan Opera.
En esta breve pieza para piano, una canción íntima sin palabras, Brahms contiene las lágrimas, lo que la hace desgarradora.
A century after the composer’s death, he is ubiquitous on relaxation playlists. Those just scratch the surface of a stranger, more complicated career.
He was best known for one enduring TV theme, but he had a startlingly diverse career as a composer, arranger and conductor in a wide range of genres.
A few hundred New Yorkers took in an evening of the New York Philharmonic and fireworks at Cunningham Park in Queens.
Mandle Cheung, a 78-year-old amateur conductor, led a performance of Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony over the objections of some musicians.
Rebecca Saunders has collaborated with the artist Ed Atkins to create “Lash,” a work that hovers around themes of illness and intimacy.
Brendel, who died on Tuesday at 94, concentrated on a small number of canonical composers, mainly Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert.
Our critics picked nine performances that included star turns, new opera productions and the unveiling of a concert hall at the Frick Collection.
With little formal training but full of ideas, he focused on the core classical composers, winning over audiences (though not every critic) worldwide.
Historical response to the cello endpin, which anchors the instrument to the floor, has alternated between acceptance and pushback.
The American Modern Opera Company is taking over Lincoln Center for a five-week residency. It is both a milestone and a homecoming for these artists.
From any angle, Michigan Central Station is a revelation.
The Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus has long been an elite training ground for young singers. Getting in requires grit, personality and a soaring voice.
Birds joined in for the blissed-out sounds of concerts organized by the adventurous flutist Claire Chase at the Ojai Music Festival in California.
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.
Readers praise plans for more contemporary works. Also: Zelensky and American values; protecting the minority; remote work; the Groucho exception.
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.