The Kennedy Center Concert Hall in Washington, D.C. was packed with anticipation last night. Conductor Christoph Eschenbach led his very first subscription concert as music director of the National ...

Washington D.C.'s National Symphony Orchestra has a new conductor, and he's being welcomed like a rock star. His dark, piercing eyes and shaved head are splashed across the sides of city buses and on ...

It’s not hard to imagine music churning through the soul of Christoph Eschenbach -- the cosmopolitan conductor who’s considered one of the world’s great musical minds -- every waking hour. And then ...

Neither of the pieces played Thursday night by the National Symphony Orchestra — Shostakovich’s first Violin Concerto and Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony — has been underrepresented in recent years in ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Before he became a conductor, Christoph Eschenbach was considered one of ...

The National Symphony Orchestra announced this morning that Christoph Eschenbach will become Conductor Laureate of the orchestra in the 2017-18 season. In other words, his contract, after what will ...

Some relationships never die, no matter how long people are apart. In Houston's arts world, exhibit A is conductor Christoph Eschenbach and the Houston Symphony. Music director from 1988 to 1999, ...

The music of Paul Hindemith gets little attention in our time. This despite the fact that the German-born composer, who spent many years in the U.S. after the rise of the Third Reich, once was widely ...