There are some timid steps, for example Yannick NĂŠzet-SĂŠguin has programmed Matthaeus-Passion next season in Philly, and even Lorin Maazel has programmed the Brandenburgs during his NY Phil tenure. But then the younger Maazel has recorded the B Minor...

STRAUSS JR. Die Bajadere, Polka, Op. 351 JOHANN STRAUSS JR. Tales from the Vienna Woods Waltz, Op. 325 This concert is made possible, in part, by the Audrey Love Charitable Foundation. Bank of America is the Proud Season Sponsor of Carnegie Hall. The...

Best: superb playing. Worst: hidebound conservatism, including the glacial pace of admitting women to its august ranks. But it hasn’t been to Washington in almost nine years, and its Feb. 29 concert — led by a local, Lorin Maazel — will certainly be...

The Kurt Masur years were stern, even humorless. He once stormed off the stage when someone kept coughing at the start of a dreary Alban Berg piece, returning after several minutes only to lecture the audience on when it was appropriate, and...

RALEIGH -- Sandi Macdonald is the hotshot Canadian whom North Carolina brought in to run one of its most treasured cultural institutions, the N.C. Symphony. By the look of her office off Glenwood Avenue, Macdonald is approaching her job with all the prec

In the days of the First Republic they were regarded as Austria's "singing ambassadors.” Since those days the Vienna Boys' Choir has given concerts under nearly all the great conductors of this century: Claudio Abbado, Leonard Bernstein, Nikolaus...