Starting out in the 1970s as a rare woman in a field dominated by men, she directed the premieres of a pair of politically charged modern classics.
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After the institution's board declared it the Trump Kennedy Center, a lot of signage around the building is in the midst of a makeover.
Michael Gordon and Richard Foreman's "What to Wear" at BAM is a visually rich, textually odd work -- and a hot commodity.
In the week that we mourn the death of the Guardian's long-serving classical music critic, composers, performers, colleagues and others who knew and worked with him pay tribute to a writer whose passing is a huge loss to the music world ...
The Renaissance composer wrote hauntingly sublime music - and committed a grisly double murder before descending even further into psychosis. As a new stage work revisits his life, its director asks if art can be separated from artist ...
Noord Nederlands Orkest and Cappella Amsterdam breathe colour and light into work from the composer's most austere period ...
Building the instrument is hard enough. Turning a profit is a killer. But Jim Phelan is bent on reviving one of the great names in classical music.
Performing "Vanessa" is just what the Boston Symphony should be doing. But its concert staging came off as drab and ineffective.
She didn't miss a single note.
An outstanding critical voice, his deep knowledge and love of music was evident in everything he wrote ...