Search results for

Just a few years ago, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra was weathering a financial crisis and a bitter labor dispute. Tune in to Weekend Edition on Sunday to hear about its impressive recovery.

Music opinionator Fran Hoepfner explains why she thinks Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony is a perfect soundtrack for our times right now.

The symphony is far from a dead art form. Critic Donald Rosenberg says dozens and dozens of notable symphonies have been written in recent decades by composers eager to stretch themselves in unanticipated — but affecting — directions.

Conductor Marin Alsop muses on the enduring qualities of the English composer's first symphony.

The brilliant and rigorously built chamber symphonies by Vagn Holmboe have finally made it to disc. Love Nielsen? Give this other Danish composer a try.

After three intimate albums, Gregory Alan Isakov decided he wanted to build a bigger kind of song. He speaks with NPR's Rachel Martin about taking his music to the Colorado Symphony.

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra principal cellist Rainer Eudeikis explains how the pandemic has changed the way they're bringing music to their audience.

Hear how the orchestra celebrated 75 years at its summer home in the Berkshires with an all-Beethoven concert led by Christoph von Dohnanyi.

The Boston Pops has commissioned a new narrated work combining words and music to mark the 100th anniversary of the Christmas Truce of 1914.

The Grammy award-winning ensemble will open the first concert of its 70th anniversary season with Beethoven's ninth symphony, the "Ode to Joy."