Leading the music categories is A.R. Rahman’s music for the Danny Boyle film "127 Hours," which was nominated in both the Best Score and Best Original Song categories. "The King's Speech" and "The Social Network" were among the other nominees.

U.S. diplomat Winston Lord had a nearly four-decade long relationship with China, including a front-row seat to the historic 1972 meeting between Nixon and Mao, the subject of John Adams’ opera Nixon in China. The opera has its Met premiere on Wednesday.

Being a piano mover in New York City involves a host of special talents. Bill Hennessy, the owner of Keyboard Express, says that the biggest keys to moving a nine-foot concert grand are quick thinking and parking skills.

Juilliard 415, the resident ensemble of the Juilliard School's new Historical Performance program, directed by Nicholas McGegen, performs Vivaldi and Handel in The Greene Space. Listen on demand.

This week, Miami’s New World Symphony unveils its just-completed concert hall, the work of famed architect Frank Gehry. But the facility’s acoustic design, as much as its physical one, will be the focus of concertgoers.

It's great to hear chamber groups and Powerhouse Pianists live around New York City, but a brilliant hall can really enhance how you experience a performance. Let us know where you most like to sit.

Carnegie Hall announced its 2011-12 season on Wednesday, plans which include celebrations of the hall's 120th anniversary, a $200 million renovation project, and the launch of a new broadcast arrangement with WQXR and American Public Media.

The music director of the Orléans Symphony died Jan. 10. He reportedly collapsed while rehearsing the Funeral March of Beethoven’s "Eroica" Symphony.

The Met’s new La Traviata signals the retirement of a 1998 production by director Franco Zeffirelli. In this 1983 WQXR broadcast, Zeffirelli discusses his film version of La Traviata, the rich grandeur of opera and the wisdom of “certain liberties.”

Today at 11 am New York Times music critic Anthony Tommasini joins Elliott Forrest to talk about his list of the 10 greatest classical composers of all time, unveiled this weekend.

The Metropolitan Opera House settled a federal lawsuit Thursday that charged the theater with discriminating against people with disabilities.

Along with Van Cliburn, Leon Fleisher and Gary Graffman, Byron Janis is a leading light in the generation of American pianists who burst onto the international scene in the 1950s. Yet almost from the start he faced incredible odds.

As we mark the bicentenary of Franz Liszt in 2011, many pianists are daring to tackle his immensely difficult and diabolical compositions. But they're not the only "extreme" pieces in the repertoire.

Can’t get enough of Chopin or Brahms? New research suggests the music you love doesn’t just sound good, it can actually provoke natural chemical reactions in the brain associated with pleasure and positive feeling.

Some 200,000 recordings, including an as-yet unknown volume of classical tracks, are now being transferred from a subterranean storage facility to the Library of Congress, in what the Library has described as "a major gift to the nation."

Raphael Hillyer, a founding violist of the Julliard String Quartet, died on Dec. 27 in Boston. He was 96.

The Schermerhorn Symphony Center has been a mecca and sanctuary to classical music fans in Nashville since its opening in 2006. After floodwaters ravaged the hall last May, it is now reopening in a concert to be broadcast on WQXR.

In 1982, the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould sat down with the critic and broadcaster Tim Page to talk about Bach's Goldberg Variations, the composition that came to define his career more than any other.

The Los Angeles-based Calder Quartet was formed almost a decade ago, but its members still exude a youthful hipness. Their concert schedule includes club dates with the band Vampire Weekend as well as more traditional performances.