The ovation that greeted the 1937 premiere of Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony lasted over an hour – perhaps fuelled by its agonisingly intense slow movement and the triumphal ending – though its deeper ...

After a winter break, Dudamel returns in February for several programs focused around Beethoven, one featuring his music for the play “Egmont” as well as pieces by Ricardo Lorenz and Robert ...

redcat.org Caldore String Quartet The ensemble performs works by Beethoven and Korngold, plus a world premiere by Han Lash. 7 p.m. Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Samueli Theater, 600 Town Center ...

The ensemble will be directed by different conductors every time, performing classics from Mozart, Roldán, Tchaikovsky, Copland, Beethoven, Wagner and more. Just a two-hour drive south from ...

A tiny park in the town of Nagaizumi in Shizuoka Prefecture has been officially recognized as the smallest park in the world by the Guinness World Records. A certificate ceremony was held in the town ...

Although no major studio ever planned this, the Oscar ceremony over the past three years post-Covid fell on a weekend when there’s was a No. 1 film to brag about at the box office. Last year ...

Hundreds of musicians from across the UK descended on Cardiff to protest a proposal to shut the university’s prestigious School of Music. The Welsh multi-instrumentalist, who earned a BA degree in ...

Christopher Fifield, who has died aged 79, was a meticulous musicologist who wrote acclaimed biographies of the composer Max Bruch and the conductor Hans Richter; he also edited the letters and ...

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The Hamilton County Democratic Party (HCDP) will host its Reorganization Convention on Saturday, March 8, to elect new party leadership. The event will be held on the fourth floor of the ...

Just as eye-opening was Kolesnikov’s reading on February 22 at the same venue of the solo part in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta under its music director ...

Kind of adorable, but unlikely to conjure Newton’s Principia or a Beethoven symphony. So, are these generative tools really functioning as creative, independent beings? Doubtful. But that may ...