Leonard Bernstein

Thomas Wilkins conducts the first BSO performance of Florence Price’s Violin Concerto No. 2, with soloist Randall Goosby in his Tanglewood debut, part of a program that also includes Bernstein’s life-affirming "Chichester Psalms" and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8.

Anna Handler leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a program that includes Christopher Rountree’s "For Martha (Variations on a Theme of Leonard Bernstein)," Aaron Copland’s "Appalachian Spring," and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7.

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.

Pianist Seong-Jin Cho returns to Symphony Hall as the soloist in Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in a program that also includes Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and Allison Loggins-Hull’s Rhapsody on a Theme by Joni for flute and orchestra, with BSO Principal Flute Lorna McGhee.

Wang joins returning conductor Domingo Hindoyan for Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto, bookended by Copland’s optimistic Third Symphony and Bernstein’s Three Dance Episodes from “On The Town.”

Celebrate the pioneering composer of movies like "The Shining," whose classical chops and technical ingenuity made her an icon of electronic music.

Ray Chen plays Tchaikovsky’s beloved Violin Concerto, and the BSO performs Bernstein’s love letter to New York: the Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story."

What would the Olympics be without the best of the best athletes... and classical composers?

Now available on demand, Conrad Tao is the soloist in Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2, "The Age of Anxiety", and Dima Slobodeniouk leads the BSO in the Symphony No. 3 by Brahms.

One of Leonard Bernstein’s most deeply personal works continues to be as relevant today as it ever was, even being quoted in a recent speech by the US Secretary of State.