Performances in N.Y.C. Critic’s Notebook The avant-garde works that emerged from World War II continue to influence how audiences view contemporary music decades later. Credit...Jan Robert Dünnweller ...

Conductor Leopold Stokowski is driven by a double urge: to play contemporary music, and to get it heard by as many people as possible. After a quarter-century with the Philadelphia Orchestra, he ...

Half a block from Penn Station in New York City, St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church is filled with people, but dark and silent. Until a woman's a cappella voice ...

Stephen Hill has spent more than 50 years highlighting what he broadly calls “contemplative music.” Initially broadcasting his syndicated radio station “Hearts of Space” from Berkeley, the 81-year-old ...

In the vibrant tapestry of contemporary music, few artists weave threads as intricate and culturally resonant as Dr. Eunwha ...

Colorado Music Festival is premiering several contemporary classic works. One of the pieces draws from the poems of Robert Frost and one of John F. Kenney's last speeches. The historic Chautauqua ...

A festival responds to the assaults and insults of war by celebrating the composer who shaped the nation’s contemporary music, Borys Liatoshynsky. By Oussama Zahr The shadow of the war in Ukraine once ...