An exploration of the orchestra conductor role history and artistic power behind shaping live symphonic music.

Semyon Bychkov will soon take up the most prestigious post of his long, varied career. Collaborating with Ralph Fiennes on “Eugene Onegin,” he gives a taste of things to come.

World-renowned conductor Seiji Ozawa who was music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for 3 decades, has died at 88. Ozawa died of heart failure at his home in Tokyo on February 6, his ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The heartbeat of any orchestra is the conductor. The conductor sets the tone for the members and their music, and the Philadelphia Orchestra has a new assistant conductor, Naomi ...

The Hollywood Bowl was packed Sunday night, as it had reportedly been Friday and Saturday, for the first time that John Williams and Gustavo Dudamel shared a program in the amphitheater. Many in the ...

Prince Ali is coming into town and bringing his finest performers, singers, dancers, and all (not sure about the 75 golden camels or 53 purple peacocks though). While Aladdin sings and dances his way ...

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Semyon Bychkov will succeed Gustavo Dudamel as music director of the Paris Opera starting in August 2028, the company’s ...

Sir Andrew Davis, the widely beloved music director and principal conductor of Lyric Opera of Chicago for some 21 years and one of the great operatic figures of his generation, died Saturday of ...

Leonard Bernstein, the acclaimed director and dynamo conductor, is back in the limelight – cast by the recent Netflix biographical film “Maestro,” directed by and starring Bradley Cooper. Immortalized ...

Music has been at the center of Vladimir Kulenovic's life since he was a boy. It also helped him survive the civil war that wracked his homeland, the former Yugoslavia, in his youth. "I kind of ...