With Music Director James Lowe as their guide, audiences at Spokane Sympony masterworks concerts have been led through every ...

Haydn’s “Surprise” Symphony is so called because, after 15 bars of charming, tinkling music, the whole orchestra suddenly crashes into a shattering fortissimo chord. But as played in a ...

Perhaps the greatest masterpiece of masterful composer Franz Joseph Haydn, “The Creation” tells the tale of the beginning of all things within nearly two hours of symphony orchestra and a full ...

Stuttgart is home to a vibrant Haydn symphony performing tradition ... demonstrating also that Davies is ever alert to a sudden dynamic shift or a surprise accent. And it’s not just the better-known ...

The symphony will perform at 3 p.m. April 13 at the Appleton Museum of Art, 4333 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala. Free. Selections include Haydn's "Surprise Symphony," the "Theme from Swan Lake" by ...

Renowned for his sense of humour, Haydn included many musical ‘jokes’ in his works. The Surprise Symphony includes a sudden loud chord in the middle of an extended quiet passage, the music ...

Jeremy Nicholas introduces a piano transcription of Haydn’s Largo cantabile from Symphony No 93 ... a moment not dissimilar from that in the second movement of the Surprise Symphony. Perhaps the ...

His hallmark is not only that he practically invented the classical symphony, but also that he lent it musical depth through subtle humor. Haydn laid the foundations for the symphony genre's ...