Alex Ross

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.

Monday Evening Concerts has showcased living composers for eight decades.

Peter Gelb thinks “experimental” music leads to dwindling audiences, but performances around the country suggest otherwise.

The musicians possess a powerful collective personality, creating an organic mass of sound.

The eighty-minute suite “All Life Long” is slow, hushed, and gnawingly beautiful, but it does not supply conventional musical comforts.

Endless debate over whether the ending of the composer’s Fifth Symphony represents a capitulation to Soviet demands or a secret dissent obscures a more tantalizing possibility.

Celebrating the composer’s hundred-and-fiftieth birthday, at a festival in Bloomington, Indiana.

In Missy Mazzoli’s “The Listeners,” a group of suburbanites hear a low, pervasive hum that others cannot.