Salonen, Esa-Pekka

‘Khovanshchina’ Is Finished in Time to Be Newly Resonant

Mussorgsky’s “Khovanshchina” has been added onto by Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky and Shostakovich. Now, another composer gets to have his say.

By Jeffrey Arlo Brown

The legacy of this composer and conductor may not be in his rarely performed works, but in how we think about music itself.

By Joshua Barone

Salonen, who will soon be a free agent for the first time in decades, could do pretty much anything at this stage. What will it be?

By Joshua Barone

The struggles of one of the nation’s finest orchestras show the difficulties facing classical music in the United States.

By Robin Pogrebin and Javier C. Hernandez