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At 28, Teddy Abrams is the youngest-ever music director of the Louisville Orchestra. He speaks with Rachel Martin about the task of making classical music at once accessible and provocative.

Conductor Andris Nelsons rallies the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in Prokofiev's riotous Alexander Nevsky and makes the orchestra shine in Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances.

The bop pianist joined Marian McPartland in 1985, not long after a hiatus of nearly 25 years.

Musician Jamie Cullum visits Weekend Edition to share a roundup of favorite new releases from contemporary jazz acts.

In the Philadelphia Orchestra trumpeter's slightly twisted world, bears play bass trombones, Liszt has a brother named Bukhett and snowblowers can be filed as musical instrument deductions.

Marking the 100th anniversary of An Alpine Symphony, take a guided tour through Strauss' evocative music with conductor Semyon Bychkov and author David Hurwitz as trail guides.

In an conversation from the Song Exploder podcast, score composer Harry Gregson-Williams explains how he matched moments to melodies in the new film, which stars Matt Damon as a stranded astronaut.

The new Dallas Opera production is a meta-story about the value — and cost — of great art.

The pianist and saxophonist was a frequent collaborator with Charles Mingus and Maynard Ferguson.

Hill may be a rising star of jazz trumpet, but it took a village of mentors, peers and other opportunities to enable him to grow. So Jazz Night went to Chicago to find out where he came from.