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Violence against women, and a smart storyteller from the Arabian Nights, inspired John Adams' "dramatic symphony," featuring violinist Leila... Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the ...

The chance to hear a great living composer conducting his own music is rarity enough. But the new work John Adams has brought with him is rarer still: a composition created in the here-and-now that ...

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — On Saturday, the Albany Symphony Orchestra continues its 2021-2022 season with a performance at Proctors in Schenectady. The major piece on the program is Nikolia Rimsky-Korsakov’s ...

If it’s tough to be a storyteller in these, the reigning days of “American Idol” and “The Bachelor,” it was even tougher in ancient Persia. Or so the story goes. You’ve heard it before. The maiden ...

Jorge Luis Borges once observed that the basic problem facing translators of “The Arabian Nights” is how to entertain contemporary audiences with pulp fictions from the medieval Islamic world. That ...

The Ixsir Vineyards in Lebanon’s Jbeil Mountains played host to an immersive reimagining of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s 1888 symphonic suite Scheherazade this week, as the sun sank below the peaks and ...

Humphrey Bogart offered his French police protagonist in “Casablanca” the perfect conclusion to paraphrase for the first Chicago Symphony residency at Artis—Naples: We think this is the beginning of a ...