Performances in N.Y.C. Critic’s Notebook The avant-garde works that emerged from World War II continue to influence how audiences view contemporary music decades later. Credit...Jan Robert Dünnweller ...

Half a block from Penn Station in New York City, St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church is filled with people, but dark and silent. Until a woman's a cappella voice ...

Conductor Leopold Stokowski is driven by a double urge: to play contemporary music, and to get it heard by as many people as possible. After a quarter-century with the Philadelphia Orchestra, he ...

Stephen Hill has spent more than 50 years highlighting what he broadly calls “contemplative music.” Initially broadcasting his syndicated radio station “Hearts of Space” from Berkeley, the 81-year-old ...

Colorado Music Festival is premiering several contemporary classic works. One of the pieces draws from the poems of Robert Frost and one of John F. Kenney's last speeches. The historic Chautauqua ...