Never make your mind up too soon about any large-scale work by a genius. Back in 2010, I had my doubts about James MacMillan’s first Passion, hearing in the impact of Colin Davis’s Barbican ...

The hush falls over the audience as the conductor raises his baton. But instead of Mahler or Beethoven, the first notes of a ...

When the National Symphony Orchestra closes its brief Florida tour ... adding that he embedded the sound of tap within the percussion section. His composition closes with “Holy Dance,” which ...

Marty McBroom lives in Washington and is retired, and attends at least one performance of nearly all regular concerts of both ...

The National Symphony Orchestra is planning warhorses by Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich and world premieres by Carlos Simon, the Kennedy Center’s composer in residence; Valerie Coleman ...