Alvin Ailey's seminal Revelations is considered the most widely viewed modern dance work in the world. Lost songs from the 1960 premiere are featured in a new work and an album this seaso…
Tourism in the Austrian city of Salzburg generates about a billion euros annually. Many of those tourists visit locations where some scenes of The Sound of Music were filmed, but many reside…
Faliks draws from her Ukrainian-Jewish heritage and Mikhail Bulgakov's anti-censorship novel The Master and Margarita for a new album.
Nokuthula Ngwenyama's Flow is on a 13-city tour of performances by the celebrated Takács Quartet.
Polish countertenor and breakdancer Jakub Józef Orliński talks about his new album with Il Pomo d'Oro orchestra.
British writer and comic book author Neil Gaiman launches first studio music album with Australia's FourPlay String Quartet.
Thomas Bangalter, formerly of French electronic music duo Daft Punk, has released a classical music album: the score to a ballet titled Mythologies that draws on American minimalism and Baro…
New York philharmonic president and CEO Deborah Borda discusses the decisionmaking process behind bringing the superstar conductor to the Big Apple.
On March 18 and 19, three chamber music concerts will take audiences on a journey from the depths of human despair to lofty joy.
In ten new commissioned works, musicians dialogue with visual art.
Violinist Jennifer Koh led the musical world premiere with the National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Gemma New.
The young chamber music group begun by two Juilliard alums has already sold out monthly performances.
The entire program was united in evoking pastoral landscapes and idylls.
He returns to the National Symphony Orchestra's podium for the first time in nearly three decades.
NSO's musicians ditched their concert dress for casual-cool wear more in tune with the industrial-chic locale.
Facing a deficit due to COVID and calls for social justice reckonings, the Center celebrates the centrality of the arts to our democracy.
New season celebrates the performing arts as a unifying and healing force.
For the first time in more than a year, audiences lined up outside the Kennedy Center's Concert Hall to hear the National Symphony Orchestra perform last week. Musicians and their public wer…
Cellist Amanda Gookin joined the legions of artists whose lives were upended when the pandemic robbed them and their public of sharing music in the same space. But that all changes on Saturd…
Gianandrea Noseda has returned to the podium of his beloved National Symphony Orchestra, awakening the sleeping giant that is the sound he has crafted as the ensemble's music director since …
In a typical year, Sound Impact reaches some 8,000 students throughout the United States and Central America. But typical, 2020 is not. The upheaval brought on by the pandemic left this coll…
Yael Weiss can remember the exact moment it all began. It was the summer of 2017, and the Israeli-American pianist was reading newspaper headlines in her New York apartment. Each story was m…
When Ellen Hwangbo launched a Washington, DC, chamber concert series in November 2019 that included a venue just a stone's throw from the White House, little seemed brazen about it. But with…