He seems to know everything there is to know about playing the sax — his breath control, tone, and fingering were all ...

Unfortunately, for Ben Bliss’s return to Vocal Arts DC on Sunday evening, what may have seemed like a promising idea on paper turned out to be a series of mostly embarrassing whiffs.  The American ...

Giacomo Puccini died in 1924 before completing his final opera, Turandot, and people have been trying to figure out how to finish it ever since. Modern audiences have gotten accustomed to the ...

No one on the public relations team at the Kennedy Center or representing the National Symphony Orchestra or the Fortas Chamber Music Concerts series was able to be reached for comment. The ...

Wolf Trap Opera opened its production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin Friday night with a gorgeous and moving performance. The skillful young artists brought Tchaikovsky’s characters and score to life ...

Four years is a long time. The coronavirus pandemic canceled the National Symphony Orchestra’s originally scheduled world premiere of Julia Wolfe’s Her Story back in 2021. After the work made the ...

The National Symphony Orchestra concert on Thursday night was marked by some unexpected drama with an indisposed Christoph Eschenbach bowing out and the scheduled all-Beethoven concert led by Emmanuel ...

Music is an abstract art. Composers can relate their work to non-musical ideas, but there is no guarantee that listeners will hear those associations without being informed of them by other means. The ...

The National Symphony Orchestra remains in crisis. Ticket sales and donations have plummeted, due to the grotesque politicization of the Kennedy Center by President Trump. Fallout from the disputed ...

“My days are in the yellow leaf,” wrote Lord Byron at the ripe old age of 36, himself riffing on Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Gustavo Gimeno, music director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, led an ...

It’s hard for anyone to upstage Yuja Wang. The 36-year-old pianist, clad in hot pink and stiletto heels for her latest appearance with the National Symphony Orchestra, has been a Wunderkind for a ...

The National Symphony Orchestra finally announced plans for its 96th season Tuesday morning. The NSO will not perform at its traditional Kennedy Center home but instead will bring around sixty ...