EIGHTY years ago in Leipzig, when a new composition of Johannes Brahms was announced for a first performance in the Gewandhaus Concerts, it was surely secondary who the conductor or the soloist would ...

“I love my three orchestras,” the twenty-eight-year-old Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä said the other day on WQXR, during a broadcast from Carnegie Hall. Mäkelä was leading an all-Stravinsky concert ...

Music has been at the center of Vladimir Kulenovic's life since he was a boy. It also helped him survive the civil war that wracked his homeland, the former Yugoslavia, in his youth. "I kind of ...

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As a child, actor Bradley Cooper was so fascinated by music conductors that he asked for a baton as a birthday gift. He remembers whirling his arms around in his bedroom — and feeling like a wizard.

PRAGUE — Libor Pešek, a Czech classical music conductor best known for leading the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for a decade, has died. He was 89. Pešek died on Sunday, said Jan Hasenöhrl, the ...

A commemorative concert in Nagano celebrates the life of conductor Seiji Ozawa on the 90th anniversary of his birth. Leading ...

The National Philharmonic is an orchestra based at The Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda. It has been since 2004.