Alex Ross

Gustavo Dudamel conducts John Corigliano’s blistering First Symphony, and Chuck Schumer faces a hostile crowd at the opening night of “Kavalier & Clay,” Alex Ross writes.

The Czech Composer Bohuslav Martinů Is One of Music’s Great Chameleons

The Bru Zane label is recording dozens of forgotten works that testify to a Romantic golden age.

Pygmalion’s visceral rendition of the B-Minor Mass.

Two New York productions of Strauss’s opera reposition its necrophiliac protagonist as a perverse instrument of justice.

Fresh New York stagings of “The Threepenny Opera” and “Love Life” show off the composer’s daring and range.

Yunchan Lim tackles Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and Seong-Jin Cho presents a Ravel marathon.

Edmond Dédé’s “Morgiane” shows how diversity initiatives can promote works of real cultural value.

Notorious for her marriages and affairs, the widow of genius is gaining new attention for her music.

Many great modernist houses were burned, but a monument of German culture in exile survived.