All look very much the same, though the Cleveland’s violas sit where the New York has its cellos, and Szell uses one more trombone and one less horn than Erich Leinsdorf does in Boston.

Like sea captains, opera impresarios have to rule with an iron hand. And no crew that ever sailed the seas could be more unruly than the average opera house’s staff of strutting tenors and ...

“Now everyone gets the best seat in the house,” says Conductor Erich Leinsdorf. “That is proper for a democracy, is it not?” The “best seat” is a living room sofa facing a wall ...

Erich Schwartzel covers the film industry in The Wall Street Journal's Los Angeles bureau. He joined the Journal in 2013 and has written dozens of front-page stories on life and business in ...

For her Chamber Music Hamilton recital, she’s reviving a program she curated for a nature-themed concert series in Washington ...