The chance to hear a great living composer conducting his own music is rarity enough. But the new work John Adams has brought with him is rarer still: a composition created in the here-and-now that ...

Some people feel like they’ve missed out because Mozart and Beethoven lived in a different century. But they’re overlooking the great artists who are in our midst today — composers writing music that ...

The composer’s latest work for violin and orchestra — he calls it a “dramatic symphony,” but surely “concerto” is also not far from the mark — sets a whole new standard for narrative and theatrical ...

At WSHU we like to think of ourselves as great storytellers, but we’ve got nothing on Scheherazade! Rimsky-Korsakov turns her 1,001 cliff-hangers into a musical page-turner. Follow every twist and ...

Watch as Elim Chan conducts Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade” as part of her NY Phil debut on March 7, 2024, featuring NY Phil Concertmaster Frank Huang. The work was also on the program when Chan ...

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — On Saturday, the Albany Symphony Orchestra continues its 2021-2022 season with a performance at Proctors in Schenectady. The major piece on the program is Nikolia Rimsky-Korsakov’s ...

On 21 June, Awtar Quartet played excerpts from Korsakov’s famed Scheherazade as well as classical Arabic songs at the Ottoman building that houses Alrabaa cultural centre Children sprint after a ball, ...

Awtar Quartet will play excerpts from Scheherazade and known compositions from the Arabic music repertoire at Al-Rabaa Cultural Centre On Sunday 21 June, four musicians will bring western classical ...

Conductor JoAnn Falletta. Photo by Mark Dellas, courtesy of JoAnn Falletta. Who was Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and why does he have two last names? And why would a 19th century Russian composer write a ...

JoAnn Falletta. Photo by Cheryl Gorski. JoAnn Falletta is celebrating her 20th anniversary as Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, so we’ve gotta give her a shout out with this old ...