“Maestro” is a word that resonates across concert music. From the Italian word for master, it is applied most frequently to a respected and established conductor of operas and orchestras but can also ...

Marc Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock, a quintessential piece of 1930s Communist agitprop, was presented through May by John Houseman and The Acting Company at the American Place Theater in New York.

This is the second part of a two-part article. Read the first part. Backstage at Tanglewood one night the summer before last, a few minutes after Leonard Bernstein had finished conducting the ...

Marc Blitzstein's opera "Regina" is full of contradictions. The story is ugly but the music is often beautiful. It's filled with tough talk that melts into song. And, by the end, at least one ...