A symphony orchestra can include more than one hundred musicians, yet a single conductor shapes the entire performance. Standing at the center of the stage with a back turned to the audience, this ...

Gustavo Dudamel dirigiendo a la Orquesta Juvenil Simón Bolívar en Oslo, en 2010. Miguel O. Strauss/Flickr, CC BY-NC In films such as these, you can sense the halo of mystery that surrounds the figure ...

Ron Davis Álvarez stood on a train platform in Stockholm, stunned by what he saw. The Venezuelan orchestra conductor was visiting Sweden as part of a university exchange program. He’d expected his ...

Truth can be repulsive,” Bruno Walter, a conductor whose life had taught him that fact all too well, once said. “But Mozart has the power to speak truth with beauty.” If there was one composer that ...

Bernard Haitink, one of the world’s most distinguished musical conductors who was acclaimed for his riveting and meticulous interpretations of the classical repertoire and led orchestras and opera ...

The symphonic world has evolved into an ongoing Mahler festival, so much that the composer’s Symphony No. 5 surfaced in adjacent performances this week — the New York Philharmonic under its new music ...

Peter Oundjian was a principal guest conductor for the Colorado Symphony from 2003 to 2006 and has been a frequent collaborator with the orchestra since then, so it’s no wonder he’s been asked through ...

When the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra lifts the curtain on their new season this weekend, it won’t be music director ...

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