Happy 200th to the RPS
It's not often that you find yourself choking up with emotion in the middle of the Dorchester Ballroom. But yesterday, the annual Royal Philharmonic ...
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Second City Chamber season concludes with ‘End of Time,’ which plays more like a dance of notes | When Svend Ronning, Amy Grinsteiner, Roberta ...
Running the Gamut 2 – A Thousand and One Milestones
Since July 11, 1991, I've been hosting a classical music morning program on WTJU, 91.1fm in Charlottesville Virginia.. The three-hour program had a ...
Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts
Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts: From 1958-1973, composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein (Previously on MeFi) played live, educational ...
The rest is power: classical music in the age of the dictatorship
Hitler was a great music lover, Stalin often went to the Bolshoi – get over it! The relationship between music and dictatorship is complex.
Rock on, Beethoven > North State Symphony plays Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in full grandeur.
It may be inappropriate to describe a symphony the way one might a particularly compelling rock show, but the North State Symphony’s rendition ...
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra announces new 2013-14 season
When she took over the role of executive director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in 2010, Rachel Fine had to learn the ropes of an established ...
Composer John Adams making old musical forms new
The most common stereotype of classical music is that it is a form hopelessly stuck in a past in which wealthy patrons sit silently in lavishly ...
100 Years After Stravinsky's 'Rite,' Can Classical Music Still Shock?
On May 29, 1913, the Paris premiere of Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring provoked a riot: whistling and booing, catcalls and fisticuffs ...