Pierre Monteux, who led the scandalous premiere of "The Rite of Spring," went on to a career of remarkable peace and selflessness.
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Cristian Macelaru has started his tenure as the music director of the storied Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
Sweeping funding cuts to public radio could deal a devastating blow to classical music communities.
In two programs with the New York Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen has constructed a moving exploration of musical legacy.
Jonathan Biss pairs Beethoven's fourth concerto with Sciarrino's 21st-century miniature, creating a programme that is thoughtful and vividly expressive ...
Works by Philip Glass and Bohuslav Martinu, as well as performances by Daniil Trifonov and Jonas Kaufmann, are among the highlights.
Technology is radically reshaping how we make music. As I dug deeper into this for a radio 3 documentary I began to wonder if creative organisations are right to be so upbeat about AI. Are we riding the wave or will the wave destroy us?
Caterina Barbieri, 35, plays gigs on banks of synthesizers. That makes her a surprising choice to lead the cerebral Venice Music Biennale.
The composer, who turns 90 this fall, has expanded the spectrum of sounds that instruments produce and that audiences can perceive.
The avant-garde works that emerged from World War II continue to influence how audiences view contemporary music decades later.