Before fighting for her people as the last sovereign of Hawaii, Queen Lili'uokalani was a musician and a composer.

Summer fun, autumn premonitions, and Dolly Parton are all waiting in this August Instant Replay.

Hear about five composers who defined America's early love affair with the impressionist style, from Charles Griffes to Marion Bauer and beyond.

For violinist María Dueñas, every violin has a memory, infusing it with energy from whoever has played it before. In her new recording, "Homage to Heifetz," Dueñas pays loving tribute to one of the greatest violinists who ever lived, Jascha Heifetz, in collaboration with Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra.

Gustavo Gimeno leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and a stellar cast of soloists in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and its inspirational “Ode to Joy.”

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.

Soprano Renée Fleming and baritone Thomas Hampson sing selections from John Adams’s opera “Nixon in China” in a program led by Music Director Andris Nelsons that also includes works by Carlos Simon and Samuel Barber.

The rising young conductor's new album, Ukrainian Mixtape, is a introduction to composers even some Ukrainians don't know very well.

Philip Glass' newest symphony, an homage to Abraham Lincoln, was supposed to premiere at the Kennedy Center — until it didn't. And then, the Boston Symphony Orchestra stepped in.