Last week, we got the sad news that James Yannatos — an accomplished composer and the longtime conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra...

Today's Unsung Symphonies riddle: What looks like a piano concerto, smells like a piano concerto, and sounds like a piano concerto, but...

For the last 180 years, it's been tough for symphony composers to get out from under Beethoven's shadow. We've dealt with lots...

In 1927, the Russian-born Alexander Tcherepnin (son of the composer Nikolai) joined an elite group of musical minds — including such greats...

I'm a sucker for aeronautics. Over winter break, I spent some time at both the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., and...

I wound up with today's symphony for the same predictable one-word reason I wind up with a lot of symphonies: Mahler. On the surface, ...

Last night, while you were walking around your neighborhood in your "scary" costume, eating Twix , 1 and generally having a good...

It was my dad’s birthday this past Monday. And as I think about everything he’s taught me over the years, one stands out in particular: orc...

My students are wading their way through Monteverdi’s Orfeo over the next few weeks. So I thought I’d look at some music by the 20th-centu...

As Sting kicks off the European leg of his Symphonicities tour, it’s the right time to look back on some recent examples of rock turned int...

It’s Wilhelm Furtwängler-bashing season on the Internet. Around a week ago, Alex Ross nominated a disc of the German musician’s piano quin...

Why not start this New England-based blog off with a local hero? A hero, at least, according to the Pulitzer Prize Board. In 1948, Maine-...