A rehearsal for the first fully staged U.S. production of Ethel Smyth's 1904 opera The Wreckers at the Bard Music Festival in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. Cory Weaver/Bard SummerScape hide caption
Tanesha Mitchell, one of 80 amateur musicians who participated in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's Academy Week, describes the experience as life-changing. Richard Anderson Photography hide caption
Photo from The Rifleman's Violin, directed by Sam Ball, Copyright Citizen Film 2015. Citizen Film hide caption
The Icelandic group Nordic Affect has commissioned new works for its forthcoming album, Clockworking. David Oldfield hide caption
Tenor Jon Vickers in the title role of Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 1983. James Heffernan/Metropolitan Opera Archives hide caption
Kirill Petrenko will become the next chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic in 2018. Wilfried Hösl/Berlin Philharmonic hide caption
Dinnerstein's performance in Cuba followed the release of Broadway-Lafayette, an album of piano concertos. Lisa-Marie Mazzucco/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Harry Lawrence Freeman, the Harlem Renaissance composer of the opera Voodoo. H. Lawrence Freeman Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University hide caption
Composer James Horner, seen here at a movie premiere in 2012, is believed to have died in a plane crash. Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images hide caption
Gunther Schuller, shown conducting Charles Mingus's Epitaph in 2007, was a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, conductor and educator. He died Sunday at age 89. Hiroyuki Ito/Getty Images hide caption