Boston has a brand new youth orchestra. The Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra (BPYO) marks the return of world-renowned music educator and maestro Benjamin Zander after a controversial break with ...

A few days before his 85th birthday, Benjamin Zander will lead the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra through a program as awesome as it is unlikely. The March 3 Symphony Hall concert will run ...

Showtime at Symphony Hall is just days away, but the maestro’s notes are missing. Staff at the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra has been searching fruitlessly this week for three annotated musical scores ...

The conductor who left the nation's oldest independent music school in Boston says he was fired for hiring a convicted sex offender to videotape the rehearsals and performances of young students.

A previous version of this story said Benjamin Zander conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra for 37 years rather than the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. A previous version of this story said the BPYO ...

WARREN TOWNSHIP, NJ -- An audience estimated at 550 heartily singing the stirring climax of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony -- in German. That was the conclusion of a unique presentation given on September ...

‘You always think if you lose something, it’s a catastrophe,’ says the conductor, who will lead the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra this Sunday. ‘But actually, you get another chance to think ...

AKRON, Ohio - Join the Akron Symphony and guest conductor Benjamin Zander for Beethoven's "Symphony No. 9," Jan. 21 at 8 p.m. Zander, the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic, will lead the symphony ...

If the words "classical music appreciation" make your eyes glaze over, conductor Benjamin Zander will change your mind in this short talk from the invite-only TED event. Zander connects music to ...

David Brancaccio speaks with world renowned conductor Benjamin Zander on finding possibility in our lives. Zander and his wife, psychotherapist Rosamund Stone Zander, are the authors of THE ART OF ...

Are you a list maker? Do you write them down or carry them in your head, are they on your phone or tablet or still on pieces of paper? Do they ever get shorter? There is always so much to be done.

Years of conducting a world-famous orchestra have shown Benjamin Zander the power of classical music. He says music speaks to our emotions — and has the ability to reach everybody. Benjamin Zander is ...