Philip Smith - principal trumpet of the New York Philharmonic, former teacher of Wynton Marsalis and hero to brass nerds everywhere - is retiring. Hear what makes him so idolized.

"In my music I speak of unknown things, impossible things, ancient things, potential things," the influential and eccentric jazz musician once said. "No two songs tell the same story."

Nowhere is the legacy of Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington - among the greatest composer/bandleaders in history - more profound than at the Washington, D.C., arts high school that bears his name.

The Chicago-based dance music producer was one of the leading lights of the footwork scene, which features frantic beats and hyper-energetic dancing.

A newly reissued set of symphonies from the decades after World War II recovers a gifted yet neglected composer, Vadim Salmanov. These live recordings burn with intensity and sorrow.

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has announced recipients of its 2014 performing arts grants. Noted composers such as Roscoe Mitchell, Oliver Lake and Randy Weston received a first tier award.

Join tenor Ian Bostridge, conductor Ton Koopman and other singers, scholars and conductors for a guided tour of Bach's sacred masterpiece, first heard on Good Friday in Leipzig in 1727.

Watch the superstar cellist Yo-Yo Ma and many of his close friends from all over the world in action at a theatrical props warehouse in Brooklyn.

This is the fifth year for the camp that teaches young women about music and girl power.

Late Wednesday night in Austin, tragedy interrupted the music at SXSW when two people were killed and nearly two dozen injured after a car crashed through a barricade and into a crowd of pedestrians.