Alex Ross: The Minnesota Orchestra Cancels, and Hilary Hahn Performs : The New Yorker

Alex Ross: The Minnesota Orchestra Cancels, and Hilary Hahn Performs : The New Yorker

Alex Ross reflects on the crisis facing classical music: "The extant network of orchestras and opera houses is an artifact of a very different America."

Hahn, a former prodigy, has matured into a creative and unpredictable virtuoso. Illustration by Delphine Lebourgeois.