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.

Soprano Nikola Hillebrand is Susanna and baritone Michael Sumuel is Figaro as the Boston Symphony and Music Director Andris Nelsons perform one of Mozart’s most endearingly captivating operas.

Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the Boston Symphony in the passionate Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner’s "Tristan and Isolde" and Sibelius’s Symphony No. 7, as well as Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 with soloist Yefim Bronfman.

In the final part of a concert series led by Music Director Andris Nelsons pairing works by Mozart and Tchaikovsky, Himari makes her BSO debut as the soloist in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 1, followed by Tchaikovsky’s blazingly triumphant Symphony No. 5.

The French pianists celebrate more than a half century of recording together with a triple-disc set containing many brand new tracks.

The song, penned before American Independence by a slave trader turned abolitionist, has remained a source of comfort, inspiration and redemption.