Two Award-winning packages, but there can only be one winner ...
There are many superlatives that could be nestled into describing what Alisa Weilerstein is playing with the Cleveland Orchestra this weekend.
The London Symphony Orchestra’s Olivier Stankiewicz was the soloist for the premiere of Colin Matthews’s oboe concerto; Rachmaninov and Bartók followed, with Chan compelling and clear ...
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra had a large and enthusiastic audience for its Thursday night concert at the Meyerson Symphony ...
The Concerto for Orchestra was composer Bela Bartok's last completed work; he did not live to finish either the Third Piano Concerto or the Viola Concerto that followed it. In these last works, all ...
Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky's famed 1812 Overture was first performed, outdoors, at the base of the majestic Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. His beloved ballet, the Nutcracker, was introduced ...
If you’ve spent any time around classical music, you might have heard the word ‘concerto’. It is a testimony to the enduring relevance of the concerto that for over four centuries, the genre has ...
Think of the tens of thousands of Black folks in St. Louis who dress sharp on Sunday mornings and attend churches, houses of worship that also are houses of song. They cherish live music and love to ...
Sometimes old recipes, newly tweaked, can yield astonishing results. Consider the concerto: It might be a 400-year-old formula, calling for a soloist to perform with — and often battle against — an ...