As the mercury plummets again this winter, Maestro Tsung Yeh offers an aural method for warming up: Édouard Lalo’s Symphonie “Espagnole.” “This is very hot and intoxicating music,” the South Bend ...
Even the orchestral tone poems of Richard Strauss, their scores larded with tantalizing verbal hints such as “Of the Great Longing” or “Song of the Night Wanderer,” tend to slip off the analyst’s hook ...
Despite the windy morning, there was a great turnout for the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s open rehearsal on Feb. 29 ahead of their weekend performances. The orchestra members were dressed casually for ...
The Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra's "Sagas" concert at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center's Symphony Hall on Saturday night offered a double dose of works by Jean Sibelius and Richard ...
Aside from his Valse Triste and his ringing tone-poem Finlandia, Jean Sibelius’ most popular composition is a little descriptive piece called The Swan of Tuonela. Written in 1893, The Swan of Tuonela ...
Jean Sibelius -- who became the voice of his country perhaps to a greater degree than any other nationalistic composer ever has -- died of a stroke the last day of summer 1957, in a small artists’ ...
It was a good thing Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes chose to describe his Sibelius choices immediately before playing them. As usual, and more irritating than usual, the lights at Meany Hall were ...
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