Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The San Francisco Symphony with conductor David Afkham. (Stefan Cohen/San Francisco Symphony) Elegance and poise may not be the ...

“Where words fail, music speaks,” said Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. New Philharmonic, the only professional orchestra based in DuPage County, presents concerts featuring works tied together ...

This performance marks a significant highlight in the OSNCR's 2025 season, bringing together one of the world's most celebrated violinists with Costa Rica's premier orchestra. The collaboration ...

“Music that stinks in the ear!” That is how one critic described this concerto after its first performance. A harsh comment, you may say, but the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto had a somewhat troublesome ...

In 1878 Tchaikovsky dedicated his newly written Violin Concerto to the renowned violinist and teacher Leopold Auer, with the idea that Auer would perform the premiere of the work in March 1879.

Nicola gave us an exclusive guide to one of the greatest pieces for violin and orchestra ever written. This Saturday evening, Alex James celebrates one of this country's finest virtuosos, Nicola ...

Chen Yi's new work brings her signature blend of Chinese traditional themes and Western orchestral forms to this new commission. Stravinsky takes baroque-era music and spikes it with his inimitable ...

Looking for a preview of the great American violinist Joshua Bell's performance Saturday with the Jacksonville Symphony? Do an online search for the pilot episode of "Mozart in the Jungle," Amazon ...

In February 1877, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky claimed that he could compose only "weak and rotten little themelets." The next year he composed the brave and cheerful tunes of his Violin Concerto in D ...

Tchaikovsky’s thrilling violin Concerto played on the very same instrument that inspired the work. Russian violinist Vadim Gluzman joins the West Australian Symphony Orchestra with the 1690 ...

Jennifer Higdon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2008 Violin Concerto, here appearing on disc for the first time, wasn’t just written for Hilary Hahn. It was custom-created to show her playing off to ...