Tan Dun

Real Quiet joins the Red House Alternatives series with an evening of its signature hard-edged contemporary classical music. Read More

Long Yu, newly appointed conductor of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, brooks no nonsense from critics who assert that Chinese musicians interpret standard Western classical music differently from their European or American counterparts. Read More

Today, Mr. Haas presides over the "percussion penthouse" at New York University, a sprawling loft filled with $150,000 in equipment—including drums, gongs, cymbals, marimbas, xylophones, a full set of steel drums, and the world's largest timpani, which Mr. Haas built out of a 100-year-old 6-foot-wide copper kettle once used to churn cheese. Read More

It is late fall in New York with the trees sporting almost no leaves. Read More

It is late fall in New York with the trees sporting almost no leaves. Read More

In a distinctive blend of East and West, Tan Dun likes to superimpose unusual instruments and techniques on a Western orchestra. Read More

You might have thought that the ambitious, idiosyncratic program of Chinese music the Kronos Quartet and the pipa virtuoso Wu Man presented at Zankel Hall on Tuesday evening was part of Carnegie Hall 's Ancient Paths, Modern Voices celebration of Chinese culture. Read More

Fast forward 30 years and he's certainly lived up to that early promise. Read More

Few conductors can effortlessly invoke the Scriptures, Shakespeare, Goethe and Joseph Campbell in a preperformance lecture. Read More

The more Morihiko Nakahara has learned about Peoria and the Peoria Symphony Orchestra, the more he has found to like. Read More