2 Esa-Pekka Salonen to Lead Scriabin's PROMETHEUS, POEM OF FIRE with LA Phil As the New York Times observes, since its inception nearly three decades ago, "the Bard Music Festival has managed more ...
The title "Mlada" may be obscure, but many of the piece's musical and dramatic elements are apt to be familiar to listeners. Rimsky-Korsakov's extravagantly fanciful 1892 opera, which forms the climax ...
On Friday, Feb. 6, be transported to the enchanting world of “Arabian Nights” as the Southwest Symphony brings to life the ...
Long before “Amadeus” there was “Mozart and Salieri,” Rimsky-Korsakov’s one-act opera about the fierce — and in this telling, fatal — rivalry between the two 18th century composers. It’s a work more ...
On the surface the genre of the lullaby in art music seems to have a limited purpose. In instrumental music, particularly piano works, and in song literature, individual lullabies act as quaint ...
‘Amadeus,” the 1984 eight Academy Award-winning Miloš Forman film, didn’t originate the idea that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was poisoned by his mediocre colleague Antonio Salieri, nor the 1979 Tony ...
On paper, the composers that Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra featured Thursday night could be considered diametric opposites. For the leanness and classical proportions of Mozart’s ...
In its full nationalistic stride, the Soviet Union last week got around to honoring the man who did more than any other to make Russian music Russian—genial, bush-bearded Nikolai Andreievich ...
Some of Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov's works never saw the light of day in his lifetime. The Quintet in B-flat for Flute, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon, and Piano is one of them. It was composed in 1876, but not ...
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