South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho mesmerized, enchanted, and levitated off the bench for an electric performance.

Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 is a masterpiece that begins with bell-like chords and eventually expands into a great, ...

“Only the anachronism has a chance to outlast the epoch,” the Austrian author Franz Werfel wrote, in the early nineteen-forties. At a time of dizzying cultural change, Werfel saw a hidden advantage in ...

In this film, classical music itself becomes the 'story'.The 1996 film 'Shine'.It is a work based on the real-life Australian ...

The first sounds I heard after arriving at Philip Glass’ townhouse in Manhattan’s then-bohemian East Village to interview the composer in 1993 were extraordinary. Glass happened to be in his kitchen ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Kirill Gerstein, who has recorded a new account of the Second Piano Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic, discusses the composer’s polarizing legacy.

Two days after the announcement that in a full 43 months, or approximately 1,300 days, Gustavo Dudamel will become music director of the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s music ...

The question of assimilation has been on my mind a lot lately. Living in this great country where individuality is embraced, our current obsession with assimilation for those choosing the U.S. as ...