Avant-garde

When is an improvisation more than an improvisation? When a spontaneous collaboration gels into something that's more the sum of its parts.

A classical-music supergroup? That's the Principal Brothers: four Black principal (first-chair) woodwind players, who joined forces for a chamber concert with music from Bach to new works written for them.

Victoria Bond's Cutting Edge Concerts series presented the Danish ensemble with music of Elena Firsova, Andrew Waggoner, Danish composer Poul Ruders, and Bond herself.

If we don't really have an atlas in the end, we have an idea for one – a set of maps drawn in the shifting sands of sound.

Even the most familiar of instruments harbors endless possibilities. Mining them is a task that never ends, and never should.

Throughout the concert the young musicians showed a high level of collective polish and individual skill to go with their infectious enthusiasm.

The quartet's new album harvests the creativity of five composers, each marshaling in their own style loadbang's unique sound world.

Having recently marked his 80th birthday, Maestro Slatkin looked as fit and energized as ever conducting Corigliano, Shostakovich and McTee.

These four works, each remarkable in its own way, spotlight the wide-ranging skills and creativity of recorder virtuoso Jeremias Schwarzer himself as well as the composers' challenging and distinctive visions.

Two stellar Curtis students joined Vieaux and violist Roberto Díaz in music by de Falla, Piazzolla, Paganini and Zhou Tian.