Antonin Dvorak composed “Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in B Minor” in 1894. But the cello on which this piece will be played on Saturday and Sunday, April 9–10, in Grand Junction is older than that ...
The Cello Concerto was the last of the three scores Antonín Dvorák wrote during his three-year residency in the U.S., when he served as director of the National Conservatory in New York City from 1892 ...
There are times when a performance seems so right that you feel the players have somehow restored order to a random universe — or, at least, to one fortunate little corner of it. Thursday night’s ...
Cellist Zuill Bailey says he's getting ready to take on two of the biggest and greatest works in the classical repertoire over the next several days in Little Rock. Bailey joins the Arkansas Symphony ...
The Chattanooga Symphony & Opera continues its new Unspoken: Our Stories Through Sound arc with "a deeply evocative program rooted in remembrance, resurrection and the redemptive power of music" on ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Greenwich Village Orchestra (GVO), led by Music Director Barbara Yahr, opens ...
This concert began in light-winged frivolity with the only work by Reznicek you are ever likely to hear, but it ended with a stark, grim flourish that turned your expectations upside down. In the ...
This is one of the two most performed cello concertos in the world (the other being by Elgar) and with such a story to tell that it would make a great weepy all on its own. Like the New World Symphony ...
First on the Somm label and for several years now on Signum, Jamie Walton has been producing indispensable discs ranging through the familiar and not so familiar cello repertoire. He has explored with ...
Dvorak was excited to come to America when the invitation first came, but after three years — and many ups and downs — he was tired of the city, of the hectic schedule, and of not being able to write ...
Claude Debussy’s singular visit to Spain lasted only an hour or two, long enough to attend a bullfight. Even so, his contemporary Manuel de Falla declared Debussy’s Iberia to be more genuine than ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Singing in her native Czech, Kozená transmits a soulfulness that she rarely summons in other repertoire. It’s a ...