Washington D.C.'s National Symphony Orchestra has a new conductor, and he's being welcomed like a rock star. His dark, piercing eyes and shaved head are splashed across the sides of city buses and on ...

Neither of the pieces played Thursday night by the National Symphony Orchestra — Shostakovich’s first Violin Concerto and Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony — has been underrepresented in recent years in ...

The Kennedy Center Concert Hall in Washington, D.C. was packed with anticipation last night. Conductor Christoph Eschenbach led his very first subscription concert as music director of the National ...

So-called “conductor hair” has long been a classical music thing — to the occasional consternation of the conductors ...

Fun fact: Betsy Cook Weber has an autographed poster of Christoph Eschenbach hanging in her office. A "big fan" of the former Music Director of the Houston Symphony, Dr. Weber is collaborating for the ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Christoph Eschenbach is a complex, excellent conductor, not always easy ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Before he became a conductor, Christoph Eschenbach was considered one of ...

Christoph Eschenbach leads the NSO in 2012. On Thursday night, they took on Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, presented less as a late Romantic work than an early modernist one. (JUANA. ARIAS/FOR THE ...

This weekend, famous conductor and former music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra Christoph Eschenbach makes a special return to the Kimmel Center. Leading the Orchestra in Richard Strauss' "Till ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Christoph Eschenbach plans to step down as music director of the National Symphony Orchestra in 2017 and will become conductor laureate for three years, the orchestra announced ...