This composer’s latest work, for Lincoln Center, is in conversation with Robert Schumann’s music and mental health struggles.

The trumpeter, composer and bandleader who helped revitalize klezmer is battling cancer. But his work hasn’t slowed, and his longtime associates are rallying around him.

Jim Staley has led the experimental venue since it began as a concert in his TriBeCa loft. After 45 years, he’s stepping down and looking…

Wolff, the last representative of the New York School that included John Cage and Morton Feldman, will celebrate his birthday with a concert at Judson…

She sparred with avant-garde instrumentalists and used electronics to alter and extend her vocal palette. She was also at home in more conventional settings.

Anthony Parnther has a flourishing career as a classical conductor who also works in the fast-paced world of commercial entertainment.

“You feel like you’re home,” a bassoonist said of the Gateways Music Festival, which for 30 years has provided Black musicians with performing opportunities.

The group founded in 1967 has carried on after the death of its longtime leader, Edgar Froese, but his impact on its music is still…

In works like “John Somebody,” he mixed the structural rigor of classical composition with the ebullient sound and attitude of rock.