New York Philharmonic

A Ravel Work Premieres at the New York Phil After Nearly 125 Years

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A Ravel Work Premieres at the New York Phil After Nearly 125 Years

The conductor Gustavo Dudamel has premiered dozens of pieces in his career. But the score that he was giddily studying on a recent afternoon at Lincoln Center was different: a nearly 125-year-old piece by the French composer Maurice Ravel that had only recently surfaced in a Paris library. “Imagine more …

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The Classical Music Our Critics Can’t Stop Thinking About

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The Classical Music Our Critics Can’t Stop Thinking About

The New York Times’s classical music and opera critics see and hear much more than they review. Here is what has hooked them recently. Leave your own favorites in the comments. ‘Her Story’ at the Kennedy Center There was a time in recent memory when a performance of Julia Wolfe’s …

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