Gunther Schuller leads the NEC Jazz Orchestra in rehearsal in Jordan Hall, 1990. Schuller coined the term "Third Stream" when referring to the genre that blends classical and jazz. From jazz to ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Critic’s Notebook The avant-garde works that emerged from World War II continue to influence how audiences view contemporary music decades later. Credit...Jan Robert Dünnweller ...

But, counterintuitive though it might seem, I don’t think sound is always a helpful way to understand genre. I’m a composer and conductor in the field that’s broadly known as Western classical music, ...