The conductor, who is aware of all this, knows that he must be on guard to expect unforeseen twists and turns — that anything may happen. The good conductor always listens to the musical response that ...

The 100th season of the Madison Symphony Orchestra continues with a performance of “Ax Plays Mozart” this weekend.

The Phoenix Symphony has revealed a new Virginia G. Piper Music Director after three-year search, Chilean-Italian conductor Paolo Bortolameolli.

Since Wieland and Wolfgang Wagner began redraping Grandfather Richard’s operas in modern scenic dress seven years ago, première audiences at the Bayreuth Festival have usually focused more on the ...

Deanna Tham has been appointed as the new music director and conductor of the Redlands Symphony Orchestra ahead of its 75th ...

The Brown University Orchestra’s Conductor Paul Phillips’ sabbatical this semester marks the third time in the past 25 years the orchestra is under a temporary baton. Taking his place on stage as ...

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One of the pleasures of going to orchestral performances is the visual whirl of watching the conductor in action -- beating time, cueing players, emoting and shimmying to a greater or lesser degree.

In the town of Besangon in eastern France, some of the world’s best-known batons were wagging last week. Besangon’s annual International Music Festival had invited conducting stars such as Pierre ...

Jonathon Heyward, known as the “Converse Conductor,” became the youngest and the first Black music conductor and director for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in its 107-year existence. Now, the ...

Tonight, the Tony Awards – Broadway's highest honors – will be handed out at Radio City Music Hall, after the first full season following the COVID shutdown. But not everyone who works on Broadway is ...