Leon Botstein, the college president who conducts orchestras, will soon be shedding one of those roles, but he did a ...
Charles Ives had some rough things to say about what he called the “Rollos” of the world. He used that name as a stand-in for ...
Carnegie Hall presents Rhiannon Giddens and assisting artists in “The Hidden Soundtrack of America,” a program of music from Africa and North America and from the 1700s to the era of minstrelsy and ...
If you are a La Traviata aficionado or someone new to opera, don’t let this cast slip through your fingers. La Traviata runs ...
Oppens was one of four pianists—the others were Paul Jacobs, Gilbert Kalish, and Charles Rosen—who commissioned Night ...
Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint was performed in an arrangement for eleven guitarists Sunday at the BOAC Long Play festival. Photo: Stephanie Berger When Bang on a Can’s Long Play festival ...
America at 250” series this season has already made for a substantial, though subtle, change in the classical music fabric in New York. The American classical repertoire is packed with not only some ...
Musicians from Asia have excelled in Western classical music for so long now that it comes as a surprise when one of them makes news by doing so. That’s what happened when the then 27-year-old Han Kim ...
His talents for composing and conducting were soon noticed by leading conductors such as Theodore Thomas and Anton Seidl, who commissioned new works from him or hired him as an assistant. For a time, ...
Asmik Grigorian as Tatiana and Iurii Samoilov in the title role of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin returned to the ...