Orchestral Music

Music Summer Guide: Erykah Badu and the Brooklyn Philharmonic Team Up

Two nights of orchestral-soul invention, Amerykahn made

SPACE ODYSSEY

Travel into stockhausen’s universe

Maria Schneider Orchestra

Orchestra of Exiles

HEAVENLY GLOW

The White Light Festival celebrates Stockhausen

Fall Arts Guide 2012: Music

Live: New York Philharmonic Throws An Uptown Warehouse Party In The Round

New York Philharmonic: Philharmonic 360 Park Avenue Armory Friday, June 29 Better than: Just another night at Lincoln Center, with or without quadrophonic sound. Upon entering the cavernous Park Avenue Armory's awesome performance space, audience members had to walk around a tableau vivant consist ... More >>

Lovers Try to Stay Above Water in The Deep Blue Sea

Daguerreotypes

Gabriel Kahane's Open Arms

The singer's grand, sweeping take on pop

Q&A: Gabriel Kahane On Distracted Listening, Internet Addiction, And The Golden Age Of Pop That Was 2003

​This week in the Voice I profiled the Brooklyn composer-songwriter-singer-multiinstrumentalist Gabriel Kahane, whose new album Where Are The Arms (Second Story Sound) is being celebrated at Littlefield next Wednesday. A couple of days before our chat, he posted a provocative rant on Spotify a ... More >>

Q&A: Maria Schneider On Boys' Clubs, Brazilian Influences, And Being A "COM-PO-SER"

Dani Gurgel​ Maria Schneider laughs at your genre distinctions; like Duke Ellington, she aims for a stylistic plateau "beyond category." For decades, that has meant music that can be both soaringly lyrical--no apologies, academics--even as it finds root in some deeply original orchestration. ... More >>

COMING ATTRACTION

Cinema meets cello

'Saxophone Summit'

Julia Wolfe & Signal

Idina Menzel

FESTIVE STRINGS

Young talent convenes at Carnegie

We Are Plastic Ono Band

STRING SET

Enterprising violinist finds like minds

'James Levine Master Class'

One Wonderful Sunday

You Cannot Start Without Me Meets Valery Gergiev the Conductor, Not the Man

Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra

New York Philharmonic Not Going to Cuba

​If President Obama is a dictator-loving socialist, he has a funny way of showing it: his Administration has refused a request to let the New York Philharmonic go to Cuba for some concerts it had planned for the end of the month. The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control denie ... More >>

Yes In My Backyard: Download the Sensorium Saxophone Orchestra's "Glow White"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing new and emerging MP3s from local talent. Recently, we've given you Inoculist's "Provenence", Liturgy's "Ecstatic Rite," and the video premiere of Renminbi's "Set Up." ​ The 15-member Sensorium Saxophone Orchestra makes massive, spectrum-e ... More >>

'Summertime Classics: Born on the Fourth of July'

Live: Grizzly Bear and Final Fantasy Get Orchestral at BAM

Grizzly Bear encore Deep Blue Sea at BAM from lofi.tv on Vimeo. Grizzly Bear and Final Fantasy with the Brooklyn Philharmonic BAM Howard Gilman Opera House Saturday, February 28 Indie rock met the orchestra on Saturday, and the only thing more powerful than the 37-piece Brooklyn Philharmonic was t ... More >>

New Philharmonic Logo: "Looks Like a Table Saw"

The New York Philharmonic has changed its graphic identity from the flowing, music-staff theme of the Lorin Maazel era (left) to a simpler circle-and-baton (right) created by Hall-of-Fame art director Paula Scher. Identity design blog Brand New opens the floor to comments. "My first impression was ... More >>

Thanks Lincoln

The man who gave us Balanchine gets a bouquet of ballets

Tone-Deaf

Not even Ed Harris can save this poorly composed period pic

IDM Takes a Few Stuffy Stabs at Classical Precision

Wolfgang and Friends

Composer and choreographer share a happy journey

No Coasting—an Iron-Lipped Trumpeter Bridges East and West

Tweaking Their Legacies: Composers Reinvent Themselves

Classical

Music

Hall of Mirrors

Trained in technology, Anthony De Ritis fools the ear by mixing DJ Spooky with orchestra

Julie Taymor Blows a Breath of Fresh Air Into The Magic Flute

Classical Music

Call It Spectral

American influences advance on the European continent

Outcats Inc.

The cats are really cooking on CIMP out in Redwood, and so is the label owner's wife

A piano-playing lion from Lyon, France, is set wild this season

Classical/Opera

Big Wolpe

A Virtuoso Evens the Score

Classical/Opera

Moon Rising Fast

The Beata Moon Ensemble Makes Its Maiden Voyage

Clash of the Titans

James Levine and His Met Orchestra Take Down the Stars

Class Act

Orchestral Maneuvers Hit the Mark

Roll Over Beethoven

Progressives Shake Up Classical Music

I’ll Take Paradise

Philip Glass’s New Symphony Eases Us Into the Millennium