The Philadelphia Orchestra has named a new assistant conductor, Naomi Woo. She's early in her career but already making a ...

Alsop kept her Kennedy Center performances with the National Symphony Orchestra recently because, she says, art is bigger than this moment and should be celebrated. "Art is about the human spirit ...

He accompanied students in art songs and arias ... of his affinity with the orchestra, but also because he fit in well with what she called its “family of conductors.” Even now, she said ...

Every conductor has a signature, though. Luisi conducts without a baton, his body lifting and lilting as he coaxes sounds from the orchestra that, as concertmaster Alexander Kerr told me ...

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: We're on stage at the Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C., with conductor ... a major American orchestra." So how much has changed in your industry, your art?