For nearly two decades, Shelton “Shelly” Berg has helped redefine what it means to study music. Now, the five-time Grammy-nominated musician and longtime dean of the Frost School of Music is stepping ...

To casual acquaintances, Brian Berg seemed to have to have it all figured out. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the Portland musician had a thriving home-inspection business, a young family and was ...

Conductor Andrew Davis and warm-toned soloist James Ehnes vividly connect Berg’s early music to his later scores and the composers who were his models Alban Berg’s two best known orchestral works ...

Alban Berg’s “Wozzeck,” which premiered in the shadow of World War I, will break your heart with a score that captures the essence of opera. By Joshua Barone His skill in completing Alban Berg’s “Lulu ...

Michael Tilson Thomas took the stage of Davies Symphony Hall on Friday night in a nervous state of mind. You could tell by the efforts he went to in trying to warm up the audience for Berg's "Lulu" ...

Call it musical diplomacy. On Friday morning, conductor Scott Yoo tried to negotiate a peace treaty between an audience at St. Paul’s Ordway Concert Hall and the “Second Viennese School” style of the ...

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — “My job tonight is to allay any residual fears you might have,” the conductor Leon Botstein said from the stage of the Sosnoff Theater at the Fisher Center for the ...

One place that Norwegian pianist Oddgeir Berg has called home is the island of Rolla, population 900. It is located in one of Norway's numerous fjords, rising from deep water to a 1000-meter peak. A ...