"Chicago was really the place that really pushed me not only as a conductor but as a musician overall and showed me what the ...

There was a neat conjunction of commemorations to this concert, the most obvious one being the fact that that 2025 marks the ...

We don’t often think of Shostakovich symphonies as “fun.” And, seeing the composer’s name on the program Thursday night, many in the Meyerson Symphony Center audience may have been ...

2024–25 marks the GRAMMY and Emmy Award-winning conductor Xian Zhang's ninth season as music director of the New Jersey Symphony. Starting in 2025–26, Zhang will also hold the role of music ...

I think my experience of South Africa has been that one has to keep an optimism and a pessimism together, and neither by ...

Beginning the program was J.S. Bach’s spirited Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major. Tessa Lark and flutist Alex Sopp, both ...

The Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra is launching the 25/26 season with 20 mainstage performances, including a fully staged production of Leonard Bernstein's Broadway musical West Side Story on April ...

There was only a single performance of an exhilarating CSO concert this past Saturday evening. It attracted a packed house ...

Ravel’s Tombeau de Couperin and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 9. Plus BBC Radio 3’s 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century – a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating ...

Every year, the BBC Proms runs the risk of trying so hard to please everybody that they end up pleasing nobody. The complaints are many and varied: too much (or not enough) non-classical music ...