Those looking to be entertained in Downtown had no shortage of options in 2009. Read More
When Warner Classics & Jazz approached me with the proposal to record some Glazunov symphonies shortly after our recording with the New York Philharmonic, I was both flattered and puzzled. Read More
Hours before Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died 218 years ago this weekend, he sang parts of a Requiem Mass he was composing with three singers from the court opera in Vienna, who came to visit. Read More
Woodstock Middle School students have the opportunity to perform on one of the most prestigious music halls in the world. Read More
The choir, 100 voices strong, staged a performance Saturday of Ralph Vaughan Williams' "A Sea Symphony" that was unforgettable: visceral, churning, reaching beyond itself. Read More
Gustav Mahler was one of the pre-eminent composers of symphonic works, easily in a group with Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms and arguably one of the masters of the symphony. Read More
Gustavo Dudamel may have a reputation as the world's most wildly exuberant ambassador for classical music, but at this precise moment he has his audience in the palm of his hand and is reducing them to an absolute hush. Read More
An Austrian conductor and composer of symphonies and lieder cycles whose most notable works include Das Lied von der Erde ... Read the full Gustav Mahler bio.