As the classical concert season ramps up, two of America's finest orchestras will soon be led by new conductors when Daniel Harding takes over in Los Angeles and Elim Chan leads in San Francisco.

The eighth annual benefit concert, founded by Signature Sounds, takes place at the 700-acre wildlife sanctuary on Saturday August 29.

World-famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma has just wrapped up a week-long residency in western Massachusetts — called We The People — to explore America’s past, present, and future. As is his style, he brought together different musical genres and historical conversations in a setting not normally focused on current affairs: the classical music venue of Tanglewood.

The rising young conductor's new album, Ukrainian Mixtape, is a introduction to composers even some Ukrainians don't know very well.

The former Longmeadow resident shares how the 2018 Hawaii alert inspired his western Mass.-set debut novel, tracing the local fallout, satire, and trauma of a tech error.

Ahead of her MASS MoCA concert, pianist Lara Downes explains how western Massachusetts voices and local history shaped her music and traveling "Declaration Quilt."

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma has invited other performing artists and public intellectuals to his August residency at Tanglewood, including civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson.

Pianist Lara Downes and Pulitzer-winning author Salamishah Tillet discuss Nina Simone and one of her best-known songs at her lovingly restored birthplace in Tryon, N.C.

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

The song, penned before American Independence by a slave trader turned abolitionist, has remained a source of comfort, inspiration and redemption.