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Esa-Pekka Salonen, the ensemble’s music director, said that he no longer shared the same goals as the administration, which has been cutting costs.

A jazz musician considers the legacy and unfulfilled promise of George Gershwin’s catchy — or you could say corny — repertory staple.

With neither encores nor speeches, this ensemble presented a subtly clever, cogent and complete pair of concerts at Carnegie Hall.

“The Chevalier,” an intriguing music-theater hybrid, unwraps the still little-known life and work of this 18th-century composer.

The soprano appeared in more than two dozen productions at the house in Milan as she rose to become opera’s leading lady. Here are six highlights.

He wrote more than 100 symphonic, choral, solo instrumental and chamber works. But he was better known, and celebrated, as a musical parodist. Who can forget the “Concerto for Horn and Hardart”?

One of Haas’s former students reflects on his time with a teacher who had lessons to offer in music, doubt and influence.

She sparred with avant-garde instrumentalists and used electronics to alter and extend her vocal palette. She was also at home in more conventional settings.

The star violinist’s appearance as artist in residence included an announcement that she had received the $100,000 Avery Fisher Prize.

Lois Kirschenbaum, who died in 2021, made the donations to cultural groups from unexpectedly large life savings.

“Angel Island,” an oratorio by Huang Ruo, brings to life the stark poetry of the people who were detained on the California island in the early 1900s.

Jaap van Zweden returned to the orchestra for the first time since October with a conservative lineup of works by Wagner, Beethoven and Brahms.

These two titans of 20th-century literature and music formed a profound, yearslong relationship across generations and backgrounds.

“The music stays as beautiful as it is,” said Andreas Staier, an eminent interpreter of early keyboard music who has a rare blood disease.

Surveys of works by Helvi Leiviska and Louis Wayne Ballard, as well as a restored version of “Cavalleria Rusticana,” are among the highlights.

Concert halls and opera houses in Vienna, Berlin and beyond are offering fan favorites (“Die Fledermaus”) and surprises (an operatic “Animal Farm”).

Albena Danailova, a violinist who became the orchestra’s first female concertmaster, is a leader and intermediary who helps preserve a signature sound.

Bradley Cooper’s movie has an unrelenting focus on Bernstein’s marriage. What’s missing are his struggles as a musician.

Now on Netflix, the movie tracks the life of the American conductor and composer and his wife, the actress Felicia Montealegre, played by Carey Mulligan.

Our favorites include premiere recordings of works by Thomas Adès and Anna Thorvaldsdottir, as well as portraits of Missy Mazzoli and Kaija Saariaho.