Chamber music is basically house music – music played in private chambers as opposed to in a concert hall. The performance by ...

Schmaltz oozed around the orchestra in the second movement, titled “Land of desolation, land of mists”, as serene strings ...

Northwest Montana’s students showcased their musical talent at the two-day District Music Festival hosted by Flathead and Glacier high schools.

The Courant’s arts picks for May 11-17 include Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, Al Stewart and Livingston Taylor, George Clinton and ...

The American composer Sean Shepherd possesses several valuable traits not often found commingling—specifically talent, ambition and modesty. Widely admired, the congenial Mr. Shepherd, a 45-year ...

Large, colorful works by Kaija Saariaho, Igor Stravinsky and Ottorino Respighi bring out the best from the ensemble and its ...

Musicians curating a Sheffield classical music festival in the Crucible Theatre have compiled their ‘Desert Island’ works - ...

Sean Shepherd’s Concerto is a world premiere written specially for the DSO and its solo flute, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon players (David Buck, Erin Hannigan, Gregory Raden, and Ted Soluri).

I have covered four of the five iterations of the Blackheath Chamber Music Festival since its inception in 2021, and in my ...

Alasdair Fraser, the legendary fiddler and kilt-clad spiritual leader of Scottish music in the Bay Area, has announced that he plans to retire from full-time performing at the end of the year. Which ...

They’re sometimes generative forces, as when opening flute flourishes prompt oboe and bassoon to spin out flourishes of their own. Much of the time they’re more participants in complex ...

With Music Director James Lowe as their guide, audiences at Spokane Sympony masterworks concerts have been led through every psychological state one can imagine: anxiety, exultation, rage, delight, ...