Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A box set of recordings pairs Stravinsky, 50 years after his death, with the conductor who championed his works. By Anthony Tommasini On April 6, 1971 ...

For Easter and Passover weekend, the Houston Symphony offers a musical meditation on faith in the modern world. Continuing the celebration of Bernstein’s centennial, his Symphony No. 2, The Age of ...

What do you get when you pit someone who's devoted their life to presenting great works of music with someone whose life was spent creating great works of music? Well, for one you get this weekend's ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Expertly filmed in colour by Humphrey Burton and originally broadcast on Britain’s fledgling independent television ...

Leonard Bernstein, Glenn Gould, Aaron Copland, and Igor Stravinsky join us – from the Afterlife! – for this special Halloween edition of the Classical Classroom. Learn about these giants of classical ...

Antonio Pappano refers to “the curse of West Side Story” in the sleeve notes to this new set of Leonard Bernstein's three symphonies, Bernstein's more ostensibly serious scores languishing in the ...

The raw energy of Leonard Bernstein is captured in this recording of him directing the London Symphony Orchestra in Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. He displays a clarity of vision as he extracts ...

Austrian composer-conductor HK Gruber has absolutely no problem with music being playful, enchanting, or even a little zany. “When I was a child,” he said in a recent telephone interview from his home ...

Once in a while, magic strikes in the concert hall. It certainly did Thursday night at the Meyerson Symphony Center, and in the piece one most wants it: Stravinsky's Firebird. It was conjured by the ...

Bernstein: West Side Story Alexandra Silber, Cheyenne Jackson, San Francisco Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas (SFS Media) Donizetti; Rita (Deux Hommes et une femme) Katarina Karnéus, Barry Banks, ...