The music director, Andris Nelsons, was moved to an evergreen contract, with an expanded role at Tanglewood. And Carlos Simon was named to a new...

The star violinist’s appearance as artist in residence included an announcement that she had received the $100,000 Avery Fisher Prize.

Franz Welser-Möst, the Cleveland Orchestra’s music director since 2002, is beginning to wind down his career.

These two titans of 20th-century literature and music formed a profound, yearslong relationship across generations and backgrounds.

These two titans of 20th-century literature and music formed a profound, yearslong relationship across generations and backgrounds.

Sondheim was a titan of musical theater. But four recent shows onstage in New York argue for his place among classical music luminaries, too.

A revival of Wagner’s “Tannhäuser” was notable for the arrival of Christian Gerhaher. But with an abrupt protest, the performance took a turn.

Begun to improve his own technique, piano exercises that Glass wrote over decades are the subject this month of a new book, a concert and...

“X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X,” from 1986, receives its grandest treatment yet, in a production expected to play on opera stages from...

On the eve of a sprawling new festival, John Adams, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Gustavo Dudamel and others recount how the state reinvigorated classical music.