The former’s slashing fortissimo chords and relentlessly shimmering textures always threatened but never succeeded in drowning out the plucky soloist. Violinist Leila Josefowicz, pictured, thrillingly ...

The fatwa imposed on Rushdie by the Iranian government resulted in him going into hiding. Translators of the novel were killed and injured, as too were Muslim clerics who opposed the fatwa. In a 2014 ...

WHEN they look at you suspiciously twenty years hence and ask if Mr. Stokowski and The Philadelphia Orchestra deserved all of the fuss that was made about them along about 1935, your answer will be ...

What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey.

The Oregon Symphony has announced a historic performance that bridges timeless music with the cultural and ecological legacy of the Pacific Northwest: Scheherazade and Celilo Falls, led by Jean Vollum ...

At WSHU we like to think of ourselves as great storytellers, but we’ve got nothing on Scheherazade! Rimsky-Korsakov turns her 1,001 cliff-hangers into a musical page-turner. Follow every twist and ...

Joyce Yang dazzles in Prokofiev’s sparkling third Piano Concerto, a piece with the one of the most brilliant finishes of any work in the genre. Anna Clyne’s Masquerade conjures images of a chaotic ...

Beyond the occasional appearance of a genie, something magical happened at the Lenfest Center of the Arts from Feb. 6 to Feb. 9. Ghina Fawaz, SoA ’25, conjured the power of storytelling while ...

This concert is generously supported by Aaron Howard and Corrie Hood-Howard Who doesn’t love the story of 1,001 Arabian Nights? In Scheherazade, Russian composer Rimsky-Korsakov used the full might of ...

Russian composer Rimsky-Korsakov used the full might of the symphony orchestra to retell a few tales from the story of "1,001 Arabian Nights." The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra is the principal ...

The South Dakota Symphony Orchestra performs Scheherazade, Op. 35 by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The performance was recorded live in the Mary W. Sommervold Hall at the Washington Pavilion, October 28, ...

The continued partnership between Nebraska Public Media and the Omaha Symphony will bring another of the symphony’s concerts to television viewers across the state in January. “Omaha Symphony in ...