You probably recognize the opening to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Those four insistent notes. There’s a symphony by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky that starts with the same driving intensity, so intense ...
On two consecutive Sunday afternoons last month at the Union College Memorial Chapel, solo string players took deep and extended journeys into the music of J.S. Bach. On Nov. 14, violinist Jennifer ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio – While the mysterious life forces of nature were busy choreographing an early outburst of vernal colors outside Severance Music Center on Thursday evening, guest conductor Klaus ...
ON APRIL 9TH, as daily British deaths from covid-19 hit their peak, Vikingur Olafsson began a remote “residency” of weekly broadcasts for “Front Row”, an arts programme on BBC radio. From the empty ...
Immediate indeed, but this Passion was never too fast, only continuous in its drama so that even the chorales, with every word illuminated as Bach so expressively set it, hit home like a Greek chorus ...
Colorado Music Festival is premiering several contemporary classic works. One of the pieces draws from the poems of Robert Frost and one of John F. Kenney's last speeches. The historic Chautauqua ...