Alex Ross

Celebrating the composer’s 150th birthday, at a festival in Bloomington, Indiana.

He moved to California during the Nazi era, and his music—which ranged from the lushly melodic to the rigorously atonal—caught the ears of everyone.

Her performances of the Black spiritual in the nineteen-thirties caused American and European audiences to fall silent in awe.

Five men sat together on a hillside in the late afternoon, imagining a world in which they did not have to hide.

“Ride of the Valkyries” has been featured in hundreds of films, including 'The Birth of a Nation,' 'Jarhead,' and most famously, Apocalypse Now.'

The Boston Symphony’s refusal to play the national anthem in its one concerts triggered a xenophobic panic that led an arrest.

Scholars are mapping the international precursors of Nazism.

He was said to have gone into decline, but his story is one of endurance—even of unlikely triumph.