The New Jersey Symphony kicked off its 103rd season Friday night in Newark with a gala dinner and concert. The mood was ...

I miss nationalism in classical music. Nationalism is looked upon by certain contemporary elements as bad because the nations in question were colonial powers, and colonialism was bad. I take a ...

Tchaikovsky never wrote a cello concerto, but the “Variations on a Rococo theme” is a close second. The main theme is a Tchaikovsky original, but it's deeply steeped in his love for Mozart and the ...

As a composer, conductor, arranger, producer, and singer/songwriter, Steve Hackman isn’t your everyday millennial multi-hyphenate. The 42-year-old has collaborated with Doja Cat, the Sunday Service ...

If Pandora and Spotify existed in the time of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, what might be on his playlists? That’s the musical question conductor David Alan Miller is exploring with Sarasota Orchestra’s ...

A lot of people asked me if I'd seen a certain concert this past March — a world premiere that interwove the music of Tupac, the Notorious B.I.G. and Mahler. Even though Hoosier audiences bestow a ...

Dubai-born Shivankh Varun Varadharajan has broken the world record by correctly identifying 16 pieces by composers such as ...

Difficult as it is to right a foundering orchestra, it may be even tougher to rescue a prosperous one. The New York Philharmonic, now heading into the home stretch of a monthlong Tchaikovsky marathon, ...

Audience members at the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony late last month were surprised by an abrupt noise in the middle of the second movement. After one ...

Works by Philip Glass and Bohuslav Martinu, as well as performances by Daniil Trifonov and Jonas Kaufmann, are among the ...

It’s reading period. You already know what that means: stress-induced tears, both internal and external, late night cramming, and a whole lot of — you guessed it — reading. With all the work that has ...