Ahead of "We The People," a week-long festival he curated for the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma speaks about the power of practicing gratitude, music's role in restoring the spirit, and what we can learn from Johannes Brahms.

After 250 years, it’s safe to say that America has found its footing when it comes to classical music. From the earliest colonial-era fife and drum tunes, to full length contemporary operas, here are 50 pieces of classical music specifically associated with each of America's 50 United States.

A hopeful, catchy, summer's breeze in this month's Instant Replay.

The third stop on a tour of America's natural wonders, through the music of composer Ferde Grofé.

In the final part of a three-concert series curated by Yo-Yo Ma, Grammy-winning vocalist Arooj Aftab joins Ma in John Tavener’s Mahámátar, followed by Kayhan Kalhor’s Venus in the Mirror with the composer and cellist Karen Ouzounian, and Osvaldo Golijov’s Azul with BSO cellist Christine Lee.

In the second of three BSO concerts curated by Yo-Yo Ma, the cellist explores the vibrancy of American music and its reflection of the triumphs, tragedies, and vitality of our country with roots musicians Aoife O'Donovan and Jennifer Kreisberg.

Longtime BSO-collaborator Bell returns to Tanglewood as the violin soloist in Max Bruch’s virtuosic “Scottish Fantasy,” and Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in Robert Schumann’s “Rhenish” Symphony and Sarah Kirkland Snider’s "Marmoris."

Philip Glass' newest symphony, an homage to Abraham Lincoln, was supposed to premiere at the Kennedy Center — until it didn't. And then, the Boston Symphony Orchestra stepped in.

Harpo Marx — the "silent" Marx brother — can finally be heard speaking in a live album of recently recovered material, which was recorded just six months before he died in 1964.