Dane Lam is the only conductor to simultaneously hold leadership positions at major institutions in the U.S. Australia, and Asia. His new recording of music by Chinese composer Xiaogang Ye seemed a good opportunity to find out what the globe-trotting conductor has been up to.

A beautifully designed and executed production, with Broadway-star singing and acting, is partly spoiled by some questionable-at-best creative decisions.

A job interview in music form? Skillful interplay among the instruments and the contrasting moods of the responses show once again a sensibility deeply rooted in the human.

How often does a student opera company get to stage the U.S. premiere of a work by a major 20th-century composer? Mannes Opera has done just that with Erich Wolfgang Korngold's 'The Silent Serenade'

Ginsburg and Scalia weren't the only music-loving Justices. In a previously unreleased song, Michaels adapted and set the text of a letter from Justice David H. Souter praising a classical album.

Shawkat's performance is warm and gutsy, powerful and generous, impressive on its own terms and even more so as a stage debut.

Percussionist Bala Skandan's arrangements, performed by his fluid cast of musicians, mingle classical ragas with elements of Western music to create a decidedly unique listening experience.

Ueno's percussion music reminds us that as long as there's a musician and a listener, there is real physical interplay between the the sound and the auditor's biology.

The full choir filled the large church with waves of glorious sound, especially in the psalm settings with their complex choral writing and in the finale, a massive "Magnificat."

The finale of Brahms' Symphony No. 4 teemed with extravagant passion and boasted a remarkably beautiful flute solo.