American composer Aaron Jay Kernis, born in 1960, has favored a more populist modernism. “Musica celestis,” the second ...

After a three-month absence, the Sedona Symphony returned to the Sedona Performing Arts Center on Sunday, Feb. 2, with its ...

The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra’s just announced 2025-26 season showcases three world premieres, Beethoven and Mozart festivals, the return of holiday favorites and appearances by award-winning ...

At the end of an exhausting week in which Holocaust Memorial Day struck a more urgent note than ever as fascism started ...

What is technical perfection if you don't have anything meaningful to say? It was something Pyotr Tchaikovsky mused about in 1888 when setting to work on what would become his famed Symphony No 5.

After more than six years at the helm, Seattle Symphony and Benaroya Hall president and CEO Krishna Thiagarajan is resigning, the Symphony announced Friday. Thiagarajan took the reins in September ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Riccardo Muti led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in a program that featured Verdi’s “Four Seasons” and ...

Meet 5 of them. The partnership comes with logistical challenges. Normally, Opera Maine performs with 40 or so musicians in the pit below the stage. This time, the Portland Symphony Orchestra will ...

The Year of the Snake is upon us as communities across the Bay Area celebrate Lunar New Year, Chinese New Year or Tet. Here’s a sampling of ways to join in the celebrations. Children’s ...

In fact, two of the works on the program were conventional, as they were both by Beethoven: the Overture to his ballet, “The Creatures of Prometheus” (1801), and his Symphony No. 3 in E-flat ...

As far as Beethoven was concerned, his Sixth Symphony is self-explanatory. “Anyone who has the faintest idea of rural life,” the composer offered, “will have no need of descriptive titles”—though, ...

The weekend’s Madison Symphony Orchestra concert series is an all-Beethoven affair, with three massive works by the legendary composer: the triumphant Leonore Overture no. 3, the surprisingly joyous ...