Few art forms are as burdened by canons as classical music and opera. That, perhaps, is why I love to be surprised: to come ...

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Emanuel Ax met back when they were young students at the Juilliard School in New York City, and they became great duo partners. The two play Frederic Chopin’s Polonaise ...

Looking back on 2025 is like trying to recount a dream — a mix of dagger-sharp details and foggy stretches that fall apart ...

Tchaikovsky wasn’t the only composer to tackle Romeo and Juliet, He just wrote the version that lives rent-free in our ...

Much of that was due to the material: Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1 by Shostakovich; Nikolai Kapustin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 ...

Composer Jessie Montgomery joins us as we continue our celebration of Black From the Top alumni and their contributions to classical music.

Quintard credits Balenciaga’s longtime creative director Demna, who recently moved over to Gucci, and his musician husband Loïck Gomez, aka Bfrnd, for pioneering new sonic possibilities, calling the ...

In Chicago this season, you can find a jazzy Duke Ellington version, a global “Nutcracker” with hip-hop mice and the 50th ...

The 11-piece early-instrument ensemble will collaborate with Houston-based Arte Puro to explore the traditional roots of the ...