There have been Black composers and Black storylines in opera, but they've often failed to gain traction with performing companies and audiences. This summer, Cincinnati Opera seeks to change that.

Philip Glass' newest symphony, an homage to Abraham Lincoln, was supposed to premiere at the Kennedy Center — until it didn't. And then, the Boston Symphony Orchestra stepped in.

Youth Orchestras of San Antonio recently toured the United Kingdom, performing in London, York and Edinburgh while giving students a chance to experience life beyond Texas and connect with audiences overseas.

Long out of print on DVD, a trio of films by Spanish director Carlos Saura—which feature the tradition of flamenco dance and music and blur the lines between fantasy and reality— has just been released by the Criterion Collection. TPR's Nathan Cone has a review.

The French pianists celebrate more than a half century of recording together with a triple-disc set containing many brand new tracks.

Harpo Marx — the "silent" Marx brother — can finally be heard speaking in a live album of recently recovered material, which was recorded just six months before he died in 1964.

Earlier this month, a new orchestra, Harmonium of Texas, announced it would be performing concerts in San Antonio. The ensemble is led by Jeffrey Kahane, who resigned from the San Antonio Philharmonic earlier this year. In this interview, Jeffrey Kahane and Harmonium's board chair, Jim Berg, preview the new group and answer a few questions about programming, funding... and musical drama.

Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck's joint project, which took more than 20 years to finalize, sees them collaborate with other folk musicians and singers.

Classical music has a reputation as old, elite and maybe not for younger audiences. But the radio show "From the Top" is trying to change that.

When John Cage composed an opera commemorating the American bicentennial audiences walked out. Now, it's being reinterpreted by new artists in a Detroit Opera production, as the nation turns 250.