The son of legendary New York folk singers, Rufus Wainwright has long been part of the New York music scene. Here he talks about how the song he's performing in Lang Lang's New York Rhapsody can open musical doors.

Andra Day has taken on many challenges in her young career. Here she talks about the song she's performing and the city that inspired it.

Lang Lang was born in China, but he's made New York City his adoptive home. Here he tells us what drew him to the idea of creating "New York Rhapsody."

The pianist Lang Lang offers this voluptuous love letter to New York, joined by special guests Andra Day, Kurt Elling, Lisa Fischer, Sean Jones, Regina Spektor, Lindsey Stirling, Suzanne Vega and Rufus Wainwright.

The pianist Lang Lang offers this voluptuous love letter to the city he considers his adoptive home, joined by special guests Andra Day, Kurt Elling, Lisa Fischer, Sean Jones, Regina Spektor, Lindsey Stirling, Suzanne Vega and Rufus Wainwright.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to PBS with four outstanding works reflecting the Company’s spectacular range, diversity and artistry, culminating in a performance of "Revelations," the dance masterpiece created by company founder Alvin Ailey.

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center takes to the road, performing in one of the country’s most beautiful historic sites: Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill in Kentucky. Delivering a monumental performance of Copland's "Appalachian Spring," the ensemble draws poignant connections between life on the frontier, the art of making music, and the quest for transcendence in American life.

Winner of the 2015 Richard Tucker Award, Jamie Barton has blazed through numerous professional accomplishments in her young career. But few may be as close to her heart as her affiliation with two organizations which specialize in making music more a part of our everyday lives.

Christine Goerke and 2015 Richard Tucker Award winner Jamie Barton are not only good friends; they can ignite the stage together in spicy roles like the ones in Amilcare Ponchielli's eponymous "La Gioconda."

Don't talk to Isabel Leonard, one of the opera world's most sought-after performers, about being a diva. Sometimes it's more important just to sing to your son.

This year, Renée Fleming and 2015 Richard Tucker Award winner Jamie Barton are joined by Andrea Bocelli, Lawrence Brownlee and other great voices for one of the perennial highlights of the opera season.

A New Year's Eve tradition continues when the New York Philharmonic welcomes opera star Susan Graham and the inimitable Nathan Lane for a sampling of fizzy French treats ranging from the "Can Can" to "Carnival of the Animals." Featuring piano virtuosi Inon Barnatan and Makoto Ozone.

The New York Philharmonic celebrates the legacy of Frank Sinatra in an all-star concert hosted by Seth MacFarlane, with performances by Christina Aguilera, Chris Botti, Fantasia, Sutton Foster, Kyle Dean Massey, Bernadette Peters, Billy Porter and Sting.

Sting, Fantasia, Sutton Foster, Billy Porter, Kyle Dean Massey and Seth MacFarlane - stars from the PBS special "Sinatra: Voice for a Century" - describe the enduring impact of the man and his music.

Of all the actors in James Lapine's theatrical adaptation of Moss Hart's beloved memoir, Santino Fontana is one of the few who inhabit a single character. But the role - that of Moss Hart himself in his early days in the theater - proves plenty challenging.

Writer/director James Lapine recalls how he came to adapt Moss Hart's celebrated memoir of his early days, and Tony Shalhoub weighs in on its meaning for people who work in the theater.

Few have captured the magic of the theater better than Moss Hart, a poor kid from the Bronx who became a lion of Broadway. Now James Lapine reinvents Hart's memoir for the stage, creating a world as vivid and transformative as the stage itself. Starring Tony Shalhoub and Andrea Martin.

Lincoln Center Theater's production of James Lapine's play succeeds in being intimate and monumental at the same time - thanks largely to Beowulf Boritt's Tony Award-winning set. Lapine, Boritt and cast members reminisce about this literally dizzying feat of stagecraft.

Playing a plethora of characters has been second nature to Second City alumna Andrea Martin. But it's not without pitfalls, as she attests after taking on multiple roles in James Lapine's "Act One."

Composer Danny Elfman, Tim Burton's prolific musical collaborator, descends on Lincoln Center with an 88-piece orchestra, 44-voice choir, and a colorful assortment of fans and fanatics. The program captures all the excitement of this cultural invasion, climaxing in performances of Elfman's most beloved Burton scores from films like Batman, Beetlejuice, Big Fish, and Edward Scissorhands.