I miss nationalism in classical music. Nationalism is looked upon by certain contemporary elements as bad because the nations in question were colonial powers, and colonialism was bad. I take a ...

On March 15, the Boston Symphony Orchestra began their concert as any other: The oboe tuned the orchestra with a concert A, then guest conductor Teddy Abrams and soloist Ray Chen came to the stage to ...

Tchaikovsky never wrote a cello concerto, but the “Variations on a Rococo theme” is a close second. The main theme is a Tchaikovsky original, but it's deeply steeped in his love for Mozart and the ...

"Sleeping Beauty" ballet enchants with lavish sets, live orchestra and international stars at the King Center in Melbourne on ...

Throughout his life, Tchaikovsky wrote several famous concerti, including one for the violin and three for the piano. As his career developed, he had promised to write a cello concerto. During this ...

All of the pieces mentioned in this article can be found in this spotify playlist, for easier navigation. “Little by little my prejudices against classical music began to fade away ... It came as a ...

As a composer, conductor, arranger, producer, and singer/songwriter, Steve Hackman isn’t your everyday millennial multi-hyphenate. The 42-year-old has collaborated with Doja Cat, the Sunday Service ...

It is, for so many of us, the permanent soundtrack of the holiday season. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ballet “The Nutcracker,” like no other music, conjures up images for me of warm fireplaces, ...

The Piano Trio - piano, violin and cello - had been a popular form in Western Europe since at least the time of Haydn's Trios in the 1760s. But even by the late 19th century the form never caught hold ...

It also launches high expectations, given that Gergiev was also the competition’s chairman, and this year more than any the Russians were anxious to show that only talent had won prizes, not the ...

A moving collection of vocal works, including world premiere recordings of music by the eminent Hungarian composer Gyorgy ...