I miss nationalism in classical music. Nationalism is looked upon by certain contemporary elements as bad because the nations in question were colonial powers, and colonialism was bad. I take a ...

Works by Philip Glass and Bohuslav Martinu, as well as performances by Daniil Trifonov and Jonas Kaufmann, are among the ...

Tchaikovsky never wrote a cello concerto, but the “Variations on a Rococo theme” is a close second. The main theme is a Tchaikovsky original, but it's deeply steeped in his love for Mozart and the ...

As a composer, conductor, arranger, producer, and singer/songwriter, Steve Hackman isn’t your everyday millennial multi-hyphenate. The 42-year-old has collaborated with Doja Cat, the Sunday Service ...

We’ve looked at a variety of classical Christmas music over the past few weeks. We considered somber music for a solstice of solitude and little-known Christmas operas such as Hans Pfitzner’s ...

If Pandora and Spotify existed in the time of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, what might be on his playlists? That’s the musical question conductor David Alan Miller is exploring with Sarasota Orchestra’s ...

The Pensacola Symphony Orchestra's roots were planted by musicians who gathered in family living rooms to play. Today, we can ...

It is, for so many of us, the permanent soundtrack of the holiday season. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ballet “The Nutcracker,” like no other music, conjures up images for me of warm fireplaces, ...

Even people who barely care of classical music love the genre when it’s offered outdoors under the stars. It’s a subdued ...

For this week’s GBH’s All Things Considered Turntable series, Brian McCreath, director of production at GBH Music and host of ...

A lot of people asked me if I'd seen a certain concert this past March — a world premiere that interwove the music of Tupac, the Notorious B.I.G. and Mahler. Even though Hoosier audiences bestow a ...

The violinist to whom Tchaikovsky dedicated his Violin Concerto called it unplayable and refused to do so. When the Concerto was finally premiered (by a massively under-rehearsed orchestra), one of ...