A new documentary about the band’s early days offers a rich backdrop to an unlikely performance of a star on the rise.

Black artists like William Grant Still, the first Black composer to have a symphony performed by a major orchestra, and Hazel Scott, who bridged the gap between jazz and classical music ...

ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s first all-female orchestra founders are convinced that music and solidarity can help Kazakh women follow their passion for art and defy the conventions of women’s traditional ...

47, we heard a large orchestra proudly displaying what it can do with music that the composer described as “a lengthy spiritual battle crowned by victory.” Guerrero held the reins, but the ...

Remembered as “one of the world’s most-travelled conductors,” Kazuyoshi Akiyama, died on Sunday, Jan. 26, in Tokyo, after sustaining injuries following a fall. He was 84 years old. If you ...

If you’re performing the Beethoven symphonic cycle — as the Boston Symphony Orchestra has been over the past weeks with music director ... of the “Ode to Joy” theme in the low strings ...

A pilot programme with Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester, has seen musicians visit weekly to play and run music activities. The orchestra's artist-in-residence, violinist Alena Baeva, recently ...

“Please Please Me” is a John Lennon original. According to the late great songwriter, he was attempting to write a “Roy Orbison song” and was also inspired by Bing Crosby to write the tun ...

When he first came to conduct the Sarasota Orchestra a year ago ... his first concert since being named music director designate. The “Heroic Spirit” theme stems from Symphony No. 5 by ...