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Michael Daugherty's Metropolis Symphony, based on the story of Superman, received an impressive five Grammy nominations this year.

An American conductor explains why Russian music suits her Sao Paolo orchestra.

The four symphonies by Brahms are like four distinct personalities, ranging from the dark and dramatic to the sunny and lyrical. The great Berlin Philharmonic has this music in its blood. Hear the entire new three-disc set, with conductor Simon Rattle, for the week leading up to its Oct. 6 release.

For Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony beginning in 2007, the centennial of Dmitri Shostakovich's birth presents an opportunity to explore the complexity and lesser-known pleasures of the legendary Russian composer's music.

The star of Rent and Wicked is making standards and pop songs her own — with the help of symphonies around the country.

Symphony orchestras typically perform repertoire from acknowledged masters of classical music. But one internationally touring multimedia concert replaces Mozart with ... Mario Bros.? When Video Games Live comes to town, the melodies — and the audiences — are different.

For centuries, storytellers of the Middle East have been retelling the tales of Sinbad and Aladdin. But the first teller of those tales, according to legend, was a young bride named Scheherazade. Rimsky-Korsakov spins the tale in music. Marin Alsop conducts.

It's hard not to keep returning to Newsom's "Emily," perhaps because nothing else released last year sounds quite like it. The song comes complete with distinct movements and dramatic, soundtrack-worthy string accents courtesy of Brian Wilson collaborator Van Dyke Parks, who knows a thing or two about making oddballs palatable.

Tuning out the chirps, peeps and trills that make up summer's insect orchestra is easy to do. But authors Lang Elliott and Wil Hershberger have captured each insect soloist — and their unique personality — in a new book that took six years to write.

America's top orchestras are presenting little if any music written by women next season. Why is that?