The rhapsodic strains of the hymn to freedom that closes "William Tell" were still hovering in the night air, the soloists had all taken their bows, and most of the audience was on its feet. Then ...

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This week, learn the full story behind Gioachino Rossini's "William Tell" Overture. Plus, we'll hear two towering musical expressions of nature with Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 1 and Richard ...

William Tell OvertureWe're sticking around the OK Mozart Festival for a little while longer to hear some orchestral music. Ransom Wilson leads the Solisti New York Orchestra in the overture to ...

“William Tell Overture” was penned by Gioachino Rossini, a 19th century Italian composer most known for his 39 operas, with “Overture” being his last before he went into semi-retirement. Born in ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Rossini's William Tell, famous for the use of part of its spectacular overture as ...

Rossini's "William Tell Overture" was in full swing as the Liberty High School Hurricanes and Freedom High School Patriots football players took a break at half-time, Liberty up 21-7. Liberty's ...

William Tell is an opera in four acts by Italian composer Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy and L. F. Bis, based on Friedrich Schiller's play William Tell, which, in ...

Footage shows the moment a cop car’s horn was changed by a prankster to blare out Rossini's William Tell Overture to bemused motorists. Officers from the Central Motorway Police Group (CMPG) tweeted a ...