An embarrassment of riches here - it’s hard to know where to start. The opening of Bartók’s Violin Concerto No 2, soft harp arpeggios underneath a pungent, folk-tinged melody, is gorgeous. With luck ...

Tchaikovsky never wrote a cello concerto, but the “Variations on a Rococo theme” is a close second. The main theme is a Tchaikovsky original, but it's deeply steeped in his love for Mozart and the ...

In this special 4th of July edition of Classical Classroom Research Presentations, Dacia ponders why Americans listen to Russian music on their Independence Day. She uncovers the [not really that] ...

Michael Webster. Photo courtesy of the Shepherd School of Music website. The HAL 9000 that we use to produce these little gems has met an untimely demise. Fear not! We’ve got a brand new HAL 9001 on ...

Like the Modern Jazz Quartet, the foursome on this new release folds visions of great classical music into a mainstream jazz setting. Tchaikovsky's 1892 ballet has always provided special holiday ...

What are the odds that two classical greats were born on the very same date of May 7, seven years apart? Brahms was born in 1833. Tchaikovsky in 1840. Born about 2,000 miles apart, Peter Tchaikovsky ...

"I really didn't do much preparation. I think I was just lucky. And I really just thought to myself, 'I'm here to learn, I've got nothing to lose. So I don't have to worry about the results.'" With ...

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WILKES-BARRE — Saddened by the 1881 death of his mentor, Nicolai Rubenstein, composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky poured his emotions into “a monumental work, about 50 minutes long,” that the chamber ...

The poet T.S. Eliot predicted the world would end not with a bang, but with a whimper. The Allentown Symphony Orchestra’s all-Tchaikovsky program at Miller Symphony Hall last weekend, however, not ...