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Thursday, Feb. 3 Guitarist Jesse Cook grew up between France, Barcelona and Canada, so it’s no surprise his music merges worlds. He’s come to love...

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The newly released 2022 Aspen Music Festival and School lineup includes the return of Aspen’s three weekly orchestras, recitals in Harris Concert Hall and Bryan Terfel starring in Verdi’s “Falstaff.”

With one eye fixed on the audience, Michael Tilson Thomas led the orchestra in splashy performances of Liszt and Mahler.

The Norwich Philharmonic Orchestra is to welcome guest violinist Zoe Beyers for a performance of Tchaikovsky

The Norwich Philharmonic Orchestra is to welcome guest violinist Zoe Beyers for a performance of Tchaikovsky

Thanks to a number of artists championing her work, the pioneering African American composer Florence Price is finally achieving the recognition she deserves, writes Andrew Farach-Colton

Saint-Saëns was a complex, paradoxical composer who considered himself an eclectic, developed a nationalistic streak and tried not to display private emotion in his music. Tim Ashley makes the case that his originality is too easily overlooked

After nearly two impactful decades atop the rostrum of the Minnesota Orchestra, conductor Osmo Vänskä prepares for his final curtain call with a two-week-long tribute to the only Finnish musician more accomplished than him: Jean Sibelius.