Leonard Bernstein

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Johnny Gandelsman and Stravinsky’s circus music

RTÉ Concert Orchestra taking over summer orchestral slots on Tuesdays and Fridays at NCH

Even the free movement of musical instruments could end, says one composer

100 musicians will lead Women’s March objecting to president’s UK visit

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is working with disadvantaged schools to help open its doors to everybody

The news that Spielberg is remaking ‘West Side Story’ drew some fire, but some of our best-loved films are remakes or ‘fresh’ adaptations of original novels. Need we go on?

New Year’s Eve Viennese Gala – New Year Celebration – RTÉ NSO/Alexander Shelley

What to see, where to eat and what to skip

Extreme pride of engineers in something being well designed made me reflect on our approach to educating student engineers and innovators

Angela Merkel’s policy defended after thinly-veiled criticism by French prime minister

Leading figure in classical music had reputation as an uncompromising modernist

Andrew Litton, who is in Dublin for one of his final appearances as conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, explains the job he has obsessed about since the age of 10

Claudio Abbado: June 26th, 1933-January 20th, 2014

Presentations by composers help to normalise what can often seem like the arcane world of new music

There are some breathtaking moments in the choreographed fight scenes but vocal performances are nowhere near as strong

Ahead of her performance in Dublin on Saturday, the conductor tells how she was inspired by Leonard Bernstein

There’s not much point in frowning on ‘ill-timed’ applause. What’s unusual today used to be the norm

The musical based on John Waters’s 1988 film is frothy but has a social message