Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The San Francisco Symphony with conductor David Afkham. (Stefan Cohen/San Francisco Symphony) Elegance and poise may not be the ...

“Where words fail, music speaks,” said Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. New Philharmonic, the only professional orchestra based in DuPage County, presents concerts featuring works tied together ...

This performance marks a significant highlight in the OSNCR's 2025 season, bringing together one of the world's most celebrated violinists with Costa Rica's premier orchestra. The collaboration ...

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra had a large and enthusiastic audience for its Thursday night concert at the Meyerson Symphony Center. But two classics of Russian romanticism, Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and ...

“Music that stinks in the ear!” That is how one critic described this concerto after its first performance. A harsh comment, you may say, but the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto had a somewhat troublesome ...

In February 1877, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky claimed that he could compose only "weak and rotten little themelets." The next year he composed the brave and cheerful tunes of his Violin Concerto in D ...

In 1878 Tchaikovsky dedicated his newly written Violin Concerto to the renowned violinist and teacher Leopold Auer, with the idea that Auer would perform the premiere of the work in March 1879.

Chen Yi's new work brings her signature blend of Chinese traditional themes and Western orchestral forms to this new commission. Stravinsky takes baroque-era music and spikes it with his inimitable ...

Chen Yi's new work brings her signature blend of Chinese traditional themes and Western orchestral forms to this new commission. Stravinsky takes baroque-era music and spikes it with his inimitable ...

Tchaikovsky’s thrilling violin Concerto played on the very same instrument that inspired the work. Russian violinist Vadim Gluzman joins the West Australian Symphony Orchestra with the 1690 ...

Nicola gave us an exclusive guide to one of the greatest pieces for violin and orchestra ever written. This Saturday evening, Alex James celebrates one of this country's finest virtuosos, Nicola ...