The orchestra scrambled to use temporary generators to cast some light on their music stands. Maestro Earle wondered how he ...

The notes the players should play are written down on the music, but it's the conductor who tells them in what way to play it. The conductor decides how fast or slow, loud or soft, spiky or smooth ...

Whether it is a pianist performing a Beethoven sonata or an orchestra interpreting a symphony by Tchaikovsky, classical music requires conscious effort and technical mastery. The act of performing ...

You knew this wasn't any ordinary symphony crowd when the high-pitched sound of chatter easily drowned out the warmups of the bassoons, oboes and violins before it started. It was just as evident when ...

The Western Michigan University Symphony Orchestra was named Best Classical University Symphony Orchestra in DownBeat magazine's 2005 nationally recognized student music awards competition. In 2003, ...

Led by Manfred Honeck, the orchestra all too quickly revisited Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony and, with Vikingur Olafsson, ...

In 1804 Beethoven wrote his magnificent and epoch-making third Symphony, which we know today as the ‘Eroica’. About three quarters of the way through the first movement the music climbs to a ...

A powerhouse in the music industry, Msaki is hosting ‘Camagu in Symphony,’ a ceremonial occasion aimed at honouring her ...

Together with soloist Sir Stephen Hough, the CBSO and Sir Mark Elder reinvent Brahms’ First Piano Concerto, present the ...

That is the challenge the San Diego Symphony’s handpicked acoustician and architectural design team faced in reinventing Jacobs Music Center, which opened in 1929 as the Fox Theatre and was ...

The viola's soft warmth, the clarinet's rounded richness ... Known as the only professional trio of its kind within the Chinese classical music scene, the Peking Trio has been a favorite since ...

A vision of the renovated Jacobs Music Center, set to open in the fall of 2024. Photo credit: Screen shot, San Diego Symphony via YouTube The San Diego Symphony will host a full day of musical ...