The first sounds I heard after arriving at Philip Glass’ townhouse in Manhattan’s then-bohemian East Village to interview the composer in 1993 were extraordinary. Glass happened to be in his kitchen ...

Sergei Rachmaninoff is remembered for his rich, sweeping and often complex melodies that evoke the sounds and sights of his native Russia. But what most people don’t know about the famed composer is ...

In the liminal space of a Beverly Hills garden, the spirit of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff examines his life as his corporeal body dies upstairs. This is the world of Rachmaninoff and the Tsar, the ...

Sergei Rachmaninoff gave his last performance in Knoxville in February 1943. He died several weeks later. Sculptor Victor Bokarov paid homage to Rachmaninoff's last performance with a statue, but it ...

In Now Hear This “Rachmaninoff Reborn,” Scott Yoo traces the journey of Sergei Rachmaninoff from Russian aristocrat to American artist — learn more about the famed musician with these five facts! 1) ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Kirill Gerstein, who has recorded a new account of the Second Piano Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic, discusses the composer’s polarizing legacy.

Two days after the announcement that in a full 43 months, or approximately 1,300 days, Gustavo Dudamel will become music director of the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s music ...

When the composer Sergei Rachmaninoff left Russia with his wife and two daughters at the end of 1917, he left behind all his works except the recently revised Piano Concerto No. 1 and the vocal score ...

The program, repeated at each of the three shows, includes the second symphony written by Sergei Taneyev (1850-1918), "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini," by Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) and the ...

Before the Revolution of 1917 Russia knew its Sergei Vassilievitch Rachmaninoff chiefly as a composer who patterned himself after Tchaikovsky and wrote gentle, nostalgic music according to 19th ...