In 1941, the Philadelphia Orchestra premiered a new violin concerto by West Chester-born composer Samuel Barber. The piece is ...

The Cleveland Orchestra’s winter and spring schedule spans centuries of music and has something for everyone. Our friends at ...

One of the world’s leading orchestras will perform in East Lansing Thursday night. The London Philharmonic brings their international tour to the Wharton Center. WKAR’s Scott Pohl takes us Inside The ...

This weekend, with drums and rain sticks and extra-long Indigenous flutes, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is preparing to stir the great American melting pot. “Visions of Cahokia,” a 14-minute ...

Ransom Wilson returned to Tuscaloosa endowed with a mission. The world-renowned flustist, conductor and educator, born in the Druid City, hired as the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra's first music ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up On Friday, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra played SLSO premieres ...

Maybe it’s all Gustav Mahler’s fault. When conducting, the Romantic-era Austro-Bohemian composer led orchestras with a near tyrannical attention to detail, sometimes neglecting the proverbial forest ...

It’s not everyone who might see connections between Henry James’ 1881 novel “Portrait of a Lady” and Samuel Barber’s 1939 Concerto for Violin, Op. 14. Simone Porter does. The violinist, who will join ...

Violinist Gil Shaham, the highest-caliber international soloist to join the Arkansas Symphony this season, or for several seasons prior (don't forget we waited two additional years -- thanks, covid-19 ...

Violinist Gil Shaham regularly solos all the time with the world's major orchestras in the world's major music capitals. Among those his official biography lists: the Berlin Philharmonic, the Boston, ...