In fact, several of them fully warrant attention, particularly the triptych of political satires Gershwin cooked up with his ...

Take it from Hector Berlioz: organ and orchestra shouldn’t mix.

Like Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt was no fan of Jane Austen. Though his reaction to the English novelist was less violent, ...

Left next to his deathbed was the unfinished manuscript of a Requiem Mass that quickly became the stuff of legend.

“How can you tell an American?” Washington Irving sings in Act 1 of Kurt Weill’s musical Knickerbocker Holiday. “Has he any distinguishing flavor?” While there wasn’t any Weill on offer at Symphony ...

“[Bleeping] family,” Jeff Goldblum’s Zeus mutters in an early episode of Netflix’s Kaos. He could easily have been referring to the dysfunctional brood at the heart of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart’s ...

Though he was a New Yorker who spent his last year in Hollywood, George Gershwin and Boston have an important history. In 1935, his only opera, Porgy and Bess, premiered at what is now the Emerson ...