Missy Mazzoli's new album, Dark with Excessive Bright, features the composer's orchestral compositions. Armed with an orchestra full of instruments, and a penchant for unusual harmonies, Mazzoli ...

We take a look at the arias, movements, songs and dances whose fame has outshone the larger works in which they first ...

Crystal Lake’s Raue Center for the Arts will host Classical Blast’s Dark Side of the Yule on Saturday, December 13, 2025, at 7 p.m. Known for blending classic rock with holiday music, the group will ...

Kurt Weill: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2; “Lady in the Dark” -- “Symphonic Nocturne” Marin Alsop, conductor. Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. (Naxos) THIS has been a banner year for conductor Marin Alsop.

We'll head into the woods during our music this evening with Schubert's Night Song of the Forest, and Joaquim Raff's Symphony No. 3, In the Forest. Tune in at 8 pm on 91.1 and 107.5 FM and our music ...

Dressed in sombre black ties, the players preceded the main programme with the national anthem and a minute’s silence, out of which emerged the chalky darkness of Sibelius’ Fourth Symphony. The ...

Alongside a full orchestra at the 2023 Red Bull Symphonic, Metro Boomin proved himself as a pivotal instrument. Thursday night (Oct. 26) in Hollywood, Calif. at the Dolby Theater, the 30-year-old ...

Simpson took the opening – for clarinet alone – very spaciously and very softly, the first note barely audible. The first bars set out a motif that becomes the melodic basis for all that follows, ...

Adolescents who are yanked off to symphony concerts by culture-maddened parents often conceive a permanent dislike for symphonic music. Symphony boards of directors have long wondered how to make ...