Every record should be a labour of love, but compared to the classics, these albums are the least necessary when listening to these iconic bands.

“Wicked” stars singer Ariana Grande and Oscar-nominated actress Cynthia Erivo as witches Glinda and Elphaba, respectively.

In Russia, no poet need starve if he can hack out odes extolling "socially useful" goals. In revolt against sloganeering paeans that read like Pravda set to rhyme, hundreds of ...

America was emerging from the Great Depression, German musicians fleeing Hitler were raising musical standards, and ...

A venerable orchestra and its seasoned conductor return to Symphony Hall, bringing a key part of their legacy.

Mena skillfully managed Boléro ’s prolonged crescendo, although the snare drum was inaudible in early variations. Of ...

The Tianjin Juilliard Orchestra was established in September 2020, and soon after, plans for a tour began. The 2024-25 season marks the school's fifth anniversary. It is the first overseas campus of ...

Meet Ukrainian musicians of Cultural Forces, who turned their instruments into lifelines during wartime, sharing their ...

The well-run 1984 Olympics transformed. Not through the Games, which thrillingly came and went, but through the Olympic Arts Festival, which taught us to dream ...

Alexander Shelley will become music director of the Pacific Symphony Orchestra for the 2026-27 season following the 35-year ...

Daniele Rustioni will become just the third principal guest conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in its nearly ...

A London exhibition shows how the three painters circled one another as rivals and role models in 16th-century Florence.