Sometimes it takes a first-rate artist to breathe life into a second-rate piece of music. Let's be honest, the set of piano miniatures called The Seasons is not top-shelf Tchaikovsky. Especially if ...
Audience members at the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony late last month were surprised by an abrupt noise in the middle of the second movement. After one ...
If Pandora and Spotify existed in the time of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, what might be on his playlists? That’s the musical question conductor David Alan Miller is exploring with Sarasota Orchestra’s ...
The Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra began its 78th season Saturday night with a tribute to Pyotr Tchaikovsky that was glorious, melancholy and unquestionably beautiful. But that is the essence of ...
Among the most famous of Russian composers, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) is commonly described as an artist with a tortured soul, emblematic, perhaps, of a cultural landscape filled with ...
In our latest "Five questions with" feature, meet cellist Abigail Bontrager from Massillon. She's a fan of Tchaikovsky and ELO.
Candles — thousands of them — and hits by Vivaldi, Taylor Swift and Tchaikovsky are coming to Erie in a trio of concerts starting this weekend. The Candlelight Concerts, a multi-sensory musical ...
Was Tchaikovsky a tempest or a drudge? The great Russian composer of iconic works like “The Nutcracker” and the “1812 Overture” is generally thought to have lived a life of melodrama. An alcoholic and ...