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 ...
A woman under attack, confronting a chorus of hostile male voices yet replying calmly and confounding her tormenters with reason: That’s the premise of John Adams’ “Scheherazade.2,” a “Dramatic ...
The Pacific Symphony’s programming of its classical orchestral series this season has been oddly and stiflingly unadventurous. With the exception of what turned out to be an ill-starred evening of ...
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 ...
Two iconic crowd-pleasers are on tap as the Brott Music Festival opens its summer season next Wednesday night in Brantford’s Sanderson Centre. Iconic crowd-pleasers from Russia, that is. And they are ...
The final concert of the International Spring Orchestra Festival was given by the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Roberto Beltran-Zavala. Two contrasting works were presented at ...
Some people feel like they’ve missed out because Mozart and Beethoven lived in a different century. But they’re overlooking the great artists who are in our midst today — composers writing music that ...
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