Orchestra
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Arts
Why Don’t More American Maestros Lead American Orchestras?
When Leonard Bernstein was named music director of the New York Philharmonic in 1958, his appointment was hailed as a…
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World
Jaap van Zweden to Lead French Orchestra After New York Philharmonic
The conductor, whose tenure in New York ends this summer, will begin a five-year term at the Orchestre Philharmonique de…
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Arts
‘Everything Has a Time’: Cleveland’s Longest-Serving Conductor Plans His Departure
One night last fall, Franz Welser-Möst, the music director of the Cleveland Orchestra, walked onto the stage of Severance Hall,…
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Arts
The EGOT Winner Behind Sondheim’s Signature Sound
To understand the role of the Broadway orchestrator, seek out the composer Stephen Sondheim’s piano demo for the song “Losing…
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Arts
How ‘The Nutcracker’ Has Been Reimagined, for Better and Worse
A tour through five cases in which Tchaikovsky’s classical score has been taken up by jazz legends and misguided filmmakers.
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Arts
A Conductor for the Future at Home With ‘Black Panther’ and Prokofiev
Anthony Parnther has a flourishing career as a classical conductor who also works in the fast-paced world of commercial entertainment.
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Arts
New York City Ballet and Its Orchestra Reach Contract Deal
The agreement, which includes an increase in compensation of about 22 percent over three years, ends months of tense negotiations.
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Arts
Review: The Philharmonic Feasts on ‘The Planets’
Under Dima Slobodeniouk, the orchestra played works by Holst and Ligeti and, for the first time, Julia Perry’s somber “Stabat…
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News
Cultural Diplomacy May Seem Pointless. That Won’t Stop Me.
While presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping were drawing the world’s attention for their talks in San Francisco this week,…
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Arts
She Broke Barriers in Music. But She’s Uneasy About the Attention.
A new documentary tells the story of Orin O’Brien, a double bassist who became the only woman in the New…