Liang Wang, playing with the New York Philharmonic at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2013. Hiroyuki Ito/Getty Images hide caption
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George Li performs a Tiny Desk Concert on July 31, 2018 (Eric Lee/NPR). Eric Lee/NPR hide caption
Renée Fleming, photographed singing the national anthem during Super Bowl XLVIII, will sing at the memorial service for the late Sen. John McCain at Washington's National Cathedral. Rob Carr/Getty Images hide caption
Jamie Bernstein watches her father, Leonard Bernstein, conduct the New York Philharmonic at a rehearsal for one of his Young People's Concerts, circa fall 1962. Bob Serating /New York Philharmonic Leon Levy Digital Archives hide caption
Composer George Walker takes a bow at a performance of his Pulitzer winning piece, Lilacs, in California in1996. Luis Sinco/LA Times/Getty Images hide caption
Leonard Bernstein conducting at London's Royal Festival Hall in 1963. Evening Standard/Getty Images hide caption
American composer, conductor and pianist Leonard Bernstein, in 1970, at a London press conference. Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption
David Daniels, seen here at the Opera News Awards in New York City in 2013, has been accused of drugging and raping a young opera singer. Brad Barket/Getty Images hide caption
A still from The Unchanging Sea. Bill Morrison hide caption
Yo-Yo Ma plays selections from Bach's Cello Suites at NPR Music's Tiny Desk. Samantha Clark/NPR hide caption
Yo-Yo Ma performs a Tiny Desk Concert on June 25, 2018 (Samantha Clark/NPR). Samantha Clark/NPR hide caption
A stained glass window depicting former South African President Nelson Mandela at Regina Mundi church in Soweto, South Africa. Carl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Minnesota Orchestra Honors Nelson Mandela By Bringing Music To South Africa
Daniele Gatti has been fired from his post as chief conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam. Pablo Faccinetto hide caption
The Philadelphia Orchestra is adding music by Anna Clyne to its upcoming season. Javier Oddo/Boosey & Hawks hide caption
This summer, the Santa Fe Opera's staging of "Dr. Atomic" features locals who have been affected by the U.S. government's 1945 atomic bomb test. Ken Howard for the Santa Fe Opera hide caption
Violinist William Preucil (left), taking a bow with the Cleveland Orchestra at a 2016 performance in Miami. Rodrigo Varela/Getty Images for The Cleveland Orchestra hide caption
Violinist William Preucil (standing, left), performing with the Cleveland Orchestra in Miami in 2016. Rodrigo Varela/Getty Images for The Cleveland Orchestra hide caption
Christian Tetzlaff's new album features the two Violin Concertos by Béla Bartók. Giorgia Bertazzi hide caption
The King's Singers perform a Tiny Desk Concert on April 19, 2018 (Eslah Attar/NPR). Eslah Attar/NPR hide caption
Ólafur Arnalds performs a Tiny Desk Concert on July 3, 2018 (Eric Lee/NPR). Eric Lee/NPR hide caption
"The idea behind this is not to create a computer that makes music for me, it's to create an instrument that I'm playing," Ólafur Arnalds says. Eric Lee/NPR hide caption
One Key, Many Notes: Ólafur Arnalds' Piano Rig Fuses Technology And Musicality
An enormous New York crowd celebrates VE Day at the end of WWII. Aaron Copland was inspired to write his "Fanfare for the Common Man" by a wartime speech rallying Americans against imperialism. A. E. French/Getty Images hide caption