He was 93 years old. Famous Soviet composer Rodion Shchedrin has died. He was 93 years old. This is reported by the Bolshoi Theater of Russia. "Rodion Shchedrin is a unique phenomenon and an epoch in ...

Not for the first time the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is issuing a Mahler set. ‘The Chief Conductors Edition’ features concert performances directed by Willem Mengelberg, Eduard van Beinum, Bernard ...

Editor’s Note: Below is an expanded version of a piece we publish in the current issue of National Review. On March 15, Vladimir Kara-Murza gave a speech to the Arizona legislature. “These are very ...

Mariss Jansons, a renowned conductor who brought new distinction to orchestras in Oslo and Pittsburgh before taking the helm of two of Europe’s finest ensembles, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra ...

To coincide with their return to Salzburg since last appearing there in 2000 under the baton of Mariss Jansons, the Oslo Philharmonic are today releasing an album of Shostakovich’s Symphonies Nos 4, 5 ...

“I love my three orchestras,” the twenty-eight-year-old Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä said the other day on WQXR, during a broadcast from Carnegie Hall. Mäkelä was leading an all-Stravinsky concert ...

Yu Lu conducts Beethoven's nine symphonies in five consecutive days, with the Ningbo Symphony Orchestra, in 2020. [Photo provided to China Daily] When the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, one of the ...

The plight of Pierre, &c. Up north and down here, &c. 9/11 as ‘inside job,’ &c. Audio By Carbonatix For me, Scandinavia starts in the departure lounge — before you ever leave for Norway (or Denmark or ...

Ticket vendor: Here are your tickets. Enjoy the show. Ticket collector: Your tickets, please. [music] Jeff: In New York City, there are lots of ways to get to Carnegie Hall, the subway, a taxi, a walk ...

As the music-loving world celebrates this year the 250th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), every detail of his life has been scoured and studied. But there is one question that has yet to ...

Charles Ives’s Symphony No. 3, subtitled ‘The Camp Meeting’, was completed in 1911 but waited until 1946 for its premiere, long after Ives had given up composing. It won him a Pulitzer Prize, and ...

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