Works by Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Philip Glass, Wynton Marsalis and Julia Wolfe are featured as well as underrepresented composers such as Amy Beach ...

David Gutman and Andrew Farach-Colton discuss Leonard Slatkin’s 1989 recording of Elgar’s First Symphony with the LPO Slatkin has a special affinity with Elgar: can his 1989 interpretation of the ...

The NSO goes to Florida, “Moby-Dick” surfaces at the Met, Karen Slack sings of “African Queens” and so much more. The spring classical season is a veritable bucket of flowers: operas about ...

The spring classical season is a veritable bucket of flowers: operas about titans of the sea and Silicon Valley, songs about queens and hymns on creation, world premieres and old favorites.

He won local renown for his gardens, lent and borrowed a wide range of books, and even penned a few sniffy remarks about Dr Samuel Johnson – who was, so he had heard from an acquaintance, ‘a great ...