To open this program, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA welcomes Spanish harpist Cristina Montes Mateo. She is featured in a challenging 20th-century piece, the “Concerto Capriccio” by the Catalan ...

From Morocco to Afghanistan to Indonesia, the stories of Scheherazade are still with us. If folkloric tales are the pillars holding up a society, then the story of Scheherazade and her Alfi Layla wa ...

On paper, the composers that Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra featured Thursday night could be considered diametric opposites. For the leanness and classical proportions of Mozart’s ...

Almost a century after its 1913 Paris premiere, Stravinsky's Rite of Spring still makes audiences noisy, but the shouts were all at the end of the piece on Saturday night, and none of them were boos.

Portland's most venerable music institution paid homage to one of the city's greatest treasures Saturday night, as the Oregon Symphony celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Portland Japanese Garden ...

The music of Rimsky-Korsakov and eye value of brilliant color give Song of Scheherazade entertainment elements not otherwise found in the fluffy, ineptly directed and played story. Score contains 10 ...

Get all the top news & discounts for Classical Music & beyond. As the New York Times observes, since its inception nearly three decades ago, "the Bard Music Festival has managed more than its fair ...

On 4 February, the Cairo Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ahmed El Saedi, and soloist Wael Farouk on piano, will perform works by Johannes Brahms and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov On Saturday, 4 February, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Scheherazade is the narrator of One Thousand and One Nights who avoids murder by telling page-turning stories that demand a sequel.

On Saturday, 11 February, the Cairo Symphony Orchestra will perform works by Sergey Rachmaninoff (Rachmaninov) and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Rachmaninoff's piano concerto no.3 (often referred to as ...