CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Orchestra on Sunday released its plans for the 2025-2026 season at Severance Music Center. The acclaimed orchestra's 24th year under the baton of music director Franz ...

Conductor Klaus Mäkelä, right, and pianist Yunchan Lim during a concert with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on Dec. 18, 2025.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra yearly touring has become a rite of annual passage and this year the group is plotting out 106 performances in 64 markets to bring some heaviness to the holiday season.

Performances in N.Y.C. Franz Welser-Möst, the Cleveland Orchestra’s music director since 2002, is beginning to wind down his career. Franz Welser-Möst, who will retire from his post at the Cleveland ...

Every Saturday, at a church in Gothenburg, Sweden, hundreds of people of all ages and backgrounds gather. There are more than 20 languages spoken among them, and they come not to worship, but to play ...

Judy Woodruff: But first- a most unusual lesson for corporate executives, how a classical music conductor is teaching business leadership. Economics correspondent Paul Solman visits a program where ...

If you’ve ever watched an orchestra perform, you might have noticed a sea of violinists front and centre, bows rippling up and down in unison. They’re usually split into two sections – first violins ...

The Pops Orchestra of Bradenton and Sarasota marks its 50th anniversary this season with an expanded schedule and added responsibilities for its conductor and artistic director, Robyn L. Bell. Bell ...

Russia's drone strikes have changed the way Ukraine sounds. A youth orchestra has been listening. NPR's Joanna Kakissis reports from outside Kyiv. JOANNA KAKISSIS, BYLINE: On most nights, 14-year-old ...

This story was updated to clarify a statement from the superintendent and the purpose of the change. Finneytown Elementary School band and orchestra classes may be held before school hours in the 2024 ...

A youth orchestra in the Kyiv region composes a symphonic poem, re-creating the sound of wartime nights in Ukraine. Russia's drone strikes have changed the way Ukraine sounds. A youth orchestra ...