Polina Osetinskaya, a critic of the invasion who has stayed in Moscow even as the government cracks down on dissent, will play a Baroque program in New York.
The orchestra’s final program of the season featured the New York premiere of John Luther Adams’s “Become Desert.”
The Dutch baritone Thomas Oliemans visits the haunts of great composers. And the air clears, just a little.
An investigation found “credible evidence” that Robert Beaser, a composition professor, had engaged in “conduct which interfered with individuals’ academic work,” the school said.
The orchestra’s renovated hall and Gustavo Dudamel, its next leader, have kept ticket sales robust, but cool acoustics curb the music’s impact.
The orchestra could have rented Carnegie Hall for the celebration, but “our supporters are here, our audiences are here,” its chief executive said.
The Finnish composer, who died at 70, is remembered by one of her longtime collaborators.
The beloved tenor’s latest book and album emerged from a time when the pandemic forced him to question what exactly he does when he sings.
This poetic composer, who died on Friday, wrote indelible, simmering operas, concertos, orchestral explosions, choral meditations and solos.
She brought new textures to modernist music, sometimes using electronics, and became the first female composer to have two operas staged by the Met.
Not for the first time this season at the New York Philharmonic, a premiere was muddled by obvious, sometimes intrusive video art.
Julia Wolfe’s latest in a series of increasingly political, oratorio-like works, “unEarth,” premieres this week at the New York Philharmonic.
Jonathon Heyward will succeed Louis Langrée as music director of the center’s revered summer ensemble.
Its beloved music director, Gustavo Dudamel, is leaving for New York, and its innovative chief executive, Chad Smith, is going to Boston. Now the esteemed orchestra is pondering what’s next.
In Philadelphia, Girard College students are joining the composer Tyshawn Sorey and Yarn/Wire for a multimedia adaptation of Ross Gay’s “Be Holding.”
The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer has released a memoir, “Easily Slip Into Another World,” and a new album, “The Other One.”
Our photographer followed the maestro when he came to town to conduct Mahler’s Ninth — his first time leading the New York Philharmonic since being named its next music director.
David Dubal, Renaissance man, aims to save the world of art with a game that teaches piano. First, he’ll have to get a computer.
In concerts and on dozens of recordings, she applied a delicate touch that critics said set her apart from other performers.
Not yet 30, Guggeis already leads a major opera house and has conducted the “Ring” in Berlin. Next up: his arrival at the Metropolitan Opera.
Contemporary works by JG Thirlwell and Adolphus Hailstork, a Franz Schreker survey and a new recording by Michael Spyres are among the highlights.
The jazz composer wrote a new concerto for the New York Philharmonic’s principal trombonist, Joseph Alessi, but died before its U.S. premiere.
Claire Chase’s “Density 2036,” an undertaking to commission a new flute repertoire, reached its 10th installment with a multi-concert retrospective.
Pavel Kolesnikov took on a test of pianism, the “Goldberg” Variations, and assembled a conceptual program inspired by Joseph Cornell.
The conductor will depart in August, the opera house said, four years ahead of schedule and after just two seasons in the job.
Nicholas Britell’s score for the HBO series, which concludes on Sunday, has developed, episode by episode, into a classic theme-and-variations work.
Smith, a rising young composer, has adapted her work “Lost Coast” into a cello concerto premiering this week at the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
“It seemed like a switch flipped right before Thanksgiving,” the leader of the Chicago Symphony said.
Performing Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, the superstar maestro conducted the orchestra for the first time since being named its next music director.
For cool kids, symphony halls are getting hotter.
On the rise before the pandemic, Simon has shot to even greater prominence since. His next premiere commemorates the murder of George Floyd.
A new book makes a dubious case.
She is marking her 24-year effort to expand the instrument’s repertoire with performances, including a Carnegie Hall series, as well as a box set and a new fellowship.
The departure of Chad Smith, the Philharmonic’s chief executive, is another loss for that orchestra, whose maestro, Gustavo Dudamel, is also leaving.
The discography of the New York Philharmonic’s future music director suggests that he is an often agreeable maestro with a lot of work still to do.
Through his decades with the New York Philharmonic and his busy touring schedule, he helped make an unfamiliar instrument much less so.
Online jokesters claimed that Karl Jenkins was the Duchess of Sussex in disguise at the coronation. He sets the record straight.
The 19-year-old musician made his New York Philharmonic debut with a powerful yet poetic performance of Rachmaninoff’s Third Concerto.
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.