The Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra has chosen its new head coach. That's how Executive Director Eric Marshall described Adam Johnson, the symphony's new music director and conductor, in a press ...

The Grant Park Music Festival has announced that outgoing Nashville Symphony music director Giancarlo Guerrero will succeed Carlos Kalmar as its next artistic director and principal conductor. After ...

On the U.S. conducting circuit, a lot of batons are being passed. In addition to Dimitri Mitropoulos, who is leaving the New York Philharmonic to be replaced by Leonard Bernstein (TIME, Nov. 25), four ...

This March, for Women’s History Month, acclaimed conductor Marin Alsop is using a purple baton to draw attention and advocate for equality in leadership roles. Hear Alsop lead members of the Colorado ...

The Bismarck-Mandan Symphony Orchestra wisely is allowing the community to have a role in its search for a new resident conductor. It's totally in character for the kind of endeavor and the nature of ...

Former Times staffer The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of the printed paper seven days a week that is available to read on desktop, mobile, and our app for subscribers only. To ...

The nearly six-foot-tall android waved a baton to keep time. Since the robot can't listen to the music it's conducting, the orchestra's main conductor gets to keep his job — at least for now. Good ...

“He’s had another seizure,” said the ashen-faced concertmaster. “The maestro can’t go on. Perhaps if you took a moment to look at the score . . .” The world’s greatest undiscovered conductor rose from ...