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Claire Chase Uses Her New Platform to Showcase a Hero

The flutist’s series of concerts at Carnegie Hall this season begins with a weekend of tributes to the experimental artist Pauline Oliveros.

Revisiting a Composer’s Psychedelic Lewis Carroll Music

The Albany Symphony is the first orchestra to record two early works in David Del Tredici’s “Alice” cycle.

A Musical Modernist’s Newly Polished, Smiling Guise

A three-CD set of music by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, released by the Wergo label, backs up a more expansive view of the artist and is…

America Needs Its Own Comic Opera Company

There is no house in the United States dedicated to presenting works from a prominent corner of homegrown music theater repertory.

Review: Two Debuts Make for a Week of Philharmonic Firsts

The Philharmonic began to simulcast concerts on the 50-foot media wall in its lobby. Led by Hannu Lintu, they were some of the best this…

Review: With Owls, Classical Is Alive and Well and Living in a Crypt

The Owls string quartet’s program in a church crypt showed off the ensemble’s unusual make up, with two cellists instead of two violinists.

Review: The Met Brings Back a Shorter, Weaker ‘Don Carlo’

David McVicar’s staging from last season has returned, but in a four-act, Italian-language form. In this case, less is less.

Review: ‘Carmen’ Returns to Its Comic Opera Roots

MasterVoices sheds the typical grand-opera treatment of Bizet’s classic to reveal a sleeker, funnier show.

An Artist Embodies an Approach to Music Without Borders

Steve Lehman’s varied stylistic language draws from classical and jazz traditions as well as funk and hip-hop.

Review: Igor Levit Takes on a Shostakovich Kaleidoscope

The pianist returned to Carnegie Hall with the first complete performance of the 24 Preludes and Fugues there.