It may be a cliché to say, but New York’s classical scene feels reborn this spring, after a tentative start in the fall and a spate of Omicron-related delays and cancellations in the winter. Also at ...

Performers such as the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and the one-handed pianist Paul Wittgenstein famously expanded their instruments’ repertoires by commissioning new works—a tradition that is alive ...