Violinist Ray Chen's virtuosity and considerable social media following make him one of the world’s most in-demand soloists, ...
Can any violinist truly conquer this diabolical instrument's formidable technique, to the point where it simply sings, ...
Denis von Meck: When Tchaikovsky composed his First Piano Concerto in 1875, he dedicated it to Nikolai Rubinstein, his director at the Moscow Conservatory and an outstanding pianist. However, ...
"Everything about The Nutcracker is much better -- the music, the dance, the story," said Egle Brediene, 38, hurrying out of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater this past week after ...
Lithuania’s national opera house had stopped showing Tchaikovsky’s 1892 masterpiece in solidarity with Ukraine over the war with Russia. Then a new minister expressed fondness for the Russian ...
Photo: Chris Lee Beczała’s program, given in the Stern Auditorium, was bookended by the works of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, many of which appear on an album of romances by those composers ...
The “Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with Lun Li” will take place at the Collins Center for the Arts in Orono on Sunday at 3 p.m. Join us on a musical adventure through France and Russia as we ...
Now twenty-six, he was famous for his technical skill and his amazing memory. Beethoven wrote the violin concerto specially for the event, and quickly, it seems. The composer had spent some of the ...