“Fest Forward: Hip-Hop Unbound,” a festival at NYU’s Skirball Center exploring the roots and future of the form, includes discussions, film, and, of course, performance.

While the Met orchestra’s conductor is on the disabled list, five substitute conductors—usually booked years in advance—were coaxed into the pit.

Kurt Vonnegut talks about his “desecration” of Stravinsky’s romanticized The Soldier’s Tale.

The eminently progressive, hip, and virtuosic Kronos Quartet collaborates in a festival with a group of intriguing partners at Carnegie Hall.

Equal parts icon and iconoclast, Mark Morris celebrates his company’s 25th anniversary this month, and BAM is going all out.

Three on-the-rise American conductors come to town this week.

After more than a decade as the hardest-working man in the classical-music business, the pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim may actually catch his breath this year.

Some ideas for a musically memorable Valentine’s Day.

Lincoln Center’s tribute to the intense Argentine-born composer Osvaldo Golijov kicked off last week.

The Public Theater turns 50.