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 ...

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 ...

1. Leif Ove Andsnes. Washington Performing Arts. Leif Ove Andsnes returned to Washington for the first time since 2017, with an intriguing program performed in the intimate Terrace Theater. A first ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The musicians of the National Symphony Orchestra ratified a new four-year contract Friday that will help preserve the present roster and solidify the NSO’s future past the imminent closing of the ...

Reach campus with video wall from Kennedy Center terrace at dusk. Photo: Richard Barnes. On September 7 the Kennedy Center officially opened its new 4.6-acre expansion to the south, a project dubbed ...

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 Sphinx Organization should have celebrated its silver anniversary in 2021, a milestone finally marked on Tuesday night. Washington Performing Arts and the Kennedy Center co-presented a concert by ...

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 ...