Known for his intellectual and illuminating touch on the podium, the refined conductor was also surprisingly outspoken when it came to politics and his peers.

In a new album, the youngest ever Van Cliburn winner puts his own stamp on Tchaikovsky's undervalued set of piano pieces called The Seasons.

The Play It Forward Western Mass instrument drive runs through May 14. Learn how you can donate a gently used instrument at a participating Big Y, by visiting nepm.org/PlayitForward.

Share the gift of music with young students in western Mass. by donating your instrument through the Community Music School of Springfield, May 3-14.

All the best holiday programming is on NEPM TV, 88.5 NEPM and Classical NEPM.

Join Classical NEPM and the Berkshire Bach Society for Bach at New Year's: The Six Brandenburg Concertos on Dec. 30 at the Academy of Music in Northampton.

Puerto Abierto

The versatile singer, who emphasizes self-acceptance, says his mission is to be a bridge from the classical community to pop, jazz and R&B. And if you’re not a fan, that’s okay.

Virtuosic pianist and composer Beethoven suffered from several debilitating ailments. A new study suggests lead poisoning may be at least partly to blame.

The name of the great contralto and civil rights icon now lives above the doors to the grand hall in Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.