Even before cellist Yo-Yo Ma was named a Peace Ambassador by the United Nations in 2006, he’d already been bringing unlikely collaborators together. Yes, he’d been regarded as a masterful interpreter ...

When plotting out his first season as Minnesota Orchestra music director, Thomas Søndergård decided to focus his winter visit on two countries: Russia and England. After celebrating the new year with ...

Benjamin Britten’s much-played score The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra was first commissioned for this 1946 film, which was made to inform aspiring musicians about each instrument in a ...

The Cleveland Orchestra has announced its 2013-14 season. Music Director Franz Welser-Möst will introduce a Fall Festival, pairing symphonies by Beethoven and Shostakovich, and an all-Brahms weekend ...

The New Orleans Opera celebrates the centennial of Benjamin Britten's birth with its first production of work by the 20th-century master - an hourlong account of Noah and the ark. The opera, which ...