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.

Routinely called a "musician's musician," the pianist had an atypical career that even he called mysterious. He spent it returning to a handful of favorite composers, with acclaimed results.

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.

Watch as Common and Aspen Music School students take Toto's "Africa" and make something spontaneous, yet memorable.

Rapper RZA, who helped launch the Wu-Tang Clan hip-hop group in the 1990s, tries his hand in classical music by composing for a ballet inspired by Greek musical scales during the pandemic.

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