In the impassioned middle section, where the singer would be declaiming a poem mostly on a single tone, the all-strings ...
Though he was not officially Dvořák’s pupil, Burleigh was indebted to him for the bright woodwinds and swooping strings of ...
“The way Dvořák should sound,” read the ads for the Prague Philharmonia’s concert in Carnegie Hall Monday night, capping the ...
Philharmonic repertoire is planned at least a year and a half in advance, and artists such as conductor Thomas Adès and ...
Tuesday night was frigid but there was ample warmth in Carnegie Hall, emanating from the stage where pianist Leif Ove Andsnes ...
Some things require very little explanation or analysis, perhaps even none. A Rembrandt self-portrait, the film Casablanca, ...
Manfred Honeck conducted the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra with Seong-Jin Cho as soloist in Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Wednesday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Chris Lee Manfred ...
The title 11,000 Strings promises something grand, and indeed Georg Friedrich Haas’ piece is large-scale in physical scope, duration, and ambition. This is a piece for 50 pianos (the 11,000 strings) ...