Hungary’s greatest composer Béla Bartók moved to New York during World War II, and he overcame serious health problems to create a musical masterpiece showing off all the instruments of the orchestra ...

Jaap van Zweden, the conductor, and Igor Levit, the pianist, are cut from the same cloth. Each is intensely devoted to music. Intensely. Each is disciplined, no-nonsense, bracing. I have often thought ...

In a darkened movie theater, a spaceship hovers high on the big screen. Eerie music wafts in like ectoplasm filling a room. It’s strange and foreboding, like the sound of a disembodied voice, a ...

In 1943, Bela Bartok’s finances were a wreck and his health was failing fast due to complications from leukemia. And yet the ailing composer still had one, final masterpiece to create. Thanks to a ...

The Philadelphia Orchestra and Music and Artistic Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin have unveiled the 2026–27 season—Nézet-Séguin ...

Music has a life-giving force and uncanny power of resilience. Bela Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra was written on what many thought was the composer’s deathbed, but bringing it into the world gave ...

This relatively new musical tradition of turntablism has a fascinating and rich history which is only about 40 years old. To my mind it’s one of the most unique and interesting instruments to emerge ...

On Friday, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra will premiere “Walkabout: Concerto for Orchestra,” by California composer Gabriela Lena Frank. If Frank’s name rings a bell, it’s because she’s been the ...

Lincoln Center appearance to feature Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony and First Piano Concerto with soloist Alexander Gavrylyuk. Conducting roster will include former CSO music director Jesus Lopez-Cobos ...

There were two concerts — one energetic, one hardly so, as the Boston Symphony Orchestra opened its season Thursday evening at Symphony Hall. The high point began after intermission. Finnish conductor ...