

Zachary Woolfe
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Review: Another Week, Another Philharmonic Podium Candidate
Santtu-Matias Rouvali is the latest potential music director to lead the orchestra, in a program of Zibuokle Martinaityte, Strauss and Tchaikovsky.
Review: Without a Note of Beethoven, an Orchestra Shines
At Carnegie Hall, the Philadelphia Orchestra gave pride of place to a once-forgotten Florence Price symphony, alongside new works and a classic.
Review: At the Philharmonic, Enveloping and Harrowing Sincerity
With the countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, the orchestra offered a sustained, serious reflection on love and its loss.
Review: International Orchestras Are Finally Back at Carnegie
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London was the first foreign ensemble to play at the hall since February 2020.
Review: An Opera Sings of a World on the Verge of Ending
Ricky Ian Gordon’s “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis” is set in a community of Italian Jews just before World War II.
Review: Philip Glass and the Bangles, Mashed at the Symphony
Anthony Roth Costanzo and Justin Vivian Bond brought their gleeful opera-cabaret show “Only an Octave Apart” to the New York Philharmonic.
A Day of Divas
Two star sopranos, Renée Fleming and Sonya Yoncheva, held court in two of New York’s grandest venues on Sunday.
Broadway Meets the Avant-Garde in a Juilliard Music Festival
Focus, a weeklong event starting Sunday, delves into the broad range of American sounds in the first half of the 20th century.
Singing Will Return to Tanglewood This Summer
The Boston Symphony Orchestra plans to go back to full-scale programming at its bucolic warm-weather home in the Berkshires.
Review: A Pianist Makes Carnegie Hall His Home
Igor Levit returned to New York after streaming dozens of concerts from his apartment during the pandemic.