Music Review | St. Louis Symphony Orchestra: Demystifying Messiaen, With a Little Help From the Birds
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David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra gave an engaging, informative and unabashedly quirky demonstration of how to demystify a daunting contemporary work for the public.
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A modest, good-natured example of new-from-old appeared in the middle of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Centerâs Sunday program at the New York Society for Ethical Culture.
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The Orpheus Chamber Orchestraâs first concert of the season at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday was a solid if commonplace program that danced around late Romanticism  and the first rumblings of modernism.
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Comment is free: Daniel Levitin: Yes, they were the greatest songwriters since Schubert - and now we're beginning to understand why.
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Arts & entertainment: Why did Sibelius produce nothing in his last 30 years? Tom Service travels to Finland to unravel one of classical music's biggest mysteries.
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The Metropolitan Operaâs affecting revival of its 1997 production of Tchaikovskyâs âEugene Oneginâ is all the more impressive because it might have turned out so differently.
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Magicians are generally ill advised to reveal their tricks, but when the conductor Kent Tritle let the audience in on a few crafty secrets during a concert by the Choir of St. Ignatius Loyola, the tactic paid off.
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Reviews of works performed by Robert Weirich, Andrew Rangell and Lisa Bielawa.
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The Gotham City Orchestra offered a range of Leonard Bernstein's music from the sublime to the ridiculous on Saturday at the Miller Theater.
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In an abbreviated program from the International Contemporary Ensemble, two pieces offered examples of how differently machine-made sounds and acoustical instruments serve the human voice.
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The New York Philharmonicâs substantive program on Friday included a lot of bustling film music by John Williams and others that few of the musicians may ever have played before.
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Lorin Maazel had a comparatively easy job last night in the first of this week's New York Philharmonic subscription programs. On the first half of the program, he led Mozart's Symphony No. 29 and the Horn Concerto No. 1 by Richard Strauss. He then ceded the podium to Xian Zhang, an assistant conductor at the Philharmonic since 2002, when she won first prize in the Maazel/Vilar Conductors' Competition. Ms. Zhang's task was more rigorous: she led the world premiere of
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The trio of Paul Motian, Joe Lovano and Bill Frisell, who play the Village Vanguard through Sunday, have discovered a mature brilliance in their 20 years together.
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By Paul Horsley, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Sep. 17--Tenor Nathan Granner and classical guitarist Beau Bledsoe have a message for those who still think classical music is staid.
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There is not always agreement between the piano and the voice in Schubertâs song cycle âDie SchÃ¶ne MÃ¼llerin.â
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A composer and koto player reinvents an ancient Japanese stringed instrument by way of an Apple G4 PowerBook and tightly focused beams of light. By Alexander Gelfand.
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The philharmonicâs program, âPainters of Sound,â brought together John Coriglianoâs âPied Piper Fantasyâ and Berliozâs âSymphonie Fantastique.â