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At Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Displays Its Heritage and Uncertain Future
The orchestra is in a period of transition, but one thing that remains consistent is the enduring quality of its summer home.
At Bard, a Festival Argues for the Music of Vaughan Williams
This year’s Bard Music Festival explores the work and context of a composer who strove to make art “an expression of the whole life of...
Nico Muhly Modernizes Monteverdi With ‘Irreverent Veneration’
Muhly has reorchestrated Monteverdi’s foundational “L’Orfeo” for a new production at Santa Fe Opera.
Echoes of William Byrd in Caroline Shaw, Nico Muhly and Others
Four popular composers explain how this Englishman’s ideas ricochet through their own works today.
Echoes of William Byrd in Caroline Shaw, Nico Muhly and Others
Four popular composers explain how this Englishman’s ideas ricochet through their own works today.
The Conductor Claudio Abbado Saw Orchestras as Collectives
A collection of 257 CDs and eight DVDs released by Deutsche Grammophon offers the breadth of Abbado’s approach, and its legacy.
‘It Has It All’: Taking on a Strange, Immense Piano Concerto
The conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and the pianist Igor Levit discuss Ferruccio Busoni’s Piano Concerto, a rarity they are performing in San Francisco.
The Composer Julia Wolfe Focuses on Climate in ‘unEarth’
Julia Wolfe’s latest in a series of increasingly political, oratorio-like works, “unEarth,” premieres this week at the New York Philharmonic.
The Composer Carlos Simon Is Busier, and More Honest, Than Ever
On the rise before the pandemic, Simon has shot to even greater prominence since. His next premiere commemorates the murder of George Floyd.
What Gustavo Dudamel’s Recordings Reveal About His Conducting
The discography of the New York Philharmonic’s future music director suggests that he is an often agreeable maestro with a lot of work still to...