Conducting film music requires an even temperament. By Jason Lipshutz, The Associated Press It all started with “Bonanza.” As a child, Mike Nowak was fascinated by the intricacies of Jay Livingston ...

What does a conductor actually do? Alongside the inquiry about whether I work on a bus or a train, this is a question I dread. Yet it's completely reasonable, since conducting remains an art that is ...

The New Jersey Intergenerational Orchestra (NJIO) is proud to present a two session webinar series titled “The Cult of Conducting.” Artistic Director Warren Cohen is excited to share his insights with ...

Daniel Harding combines classical music with being a part-time commercial airline pilot.

“Any asino can conduct,” the autocratic Italian maestro Arturo Toscanini once said, comparing routine conductors to dunces. “But to make music, eh? Is difficile!” Now, try conducting a major orchestra ...

Christoph Poppen, new jury co-chair of the Hong Kong International Conducting Competition, argues that the competition ...

I’m standing on a podium, with an enameled wand cocked between my fingers and sweat dampening the small of my back. Ranks of young musicians eye me skeptically. They know I don’t belong here, but they ...

Deanna Tham made her Oregon Symphony debut on Sept. 3, at the Waterfront Concert and Festival in downtown Portland. Tham, who won her associate conductor position over 200 other talented musicians ...

Baek Yoon-hak, 50, a professor at Yeungnam University’s College of Music and conductor of the Seoul Festa Philharmonic Orchestra, is widely known as “the dancing conductor.” The nickname stems from ...

When conductor Bob McDonough realized the Yale Glee Club was on his train on Friday, he decided to have a go at a different kind of conducting. The group was on a Metro-North train traveling to New ...

When Arnald Gabriel was conducting concerts regularly more than two decades ago, his colleague told him, half-jokingly, “Gabe, I think you will still be conducting when you’re 100.” Gabriel replied, ...

Architecture and classical-music critic Justin Davidson is a Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York. Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tár. Photo: Courtesy of Focus ...