Composer Philip Glass has enlisted Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes for the performance of his “20 Etudes” on March 9 at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Also part of the concert are Aaron Diehl, Jenny ...

Philip Glass: Violin Concerto; Alfred Schnittke: Concerto Grosso No. 5 for Violin, Invisible Piano and Orchestra. Gidon Kremer, violin; Vienna Philharmonic, Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor (DG). A ...

Of the 13 or so concertos written by Philip Glass over a period of nearly 40 years, his first, for violin, ranks as one of his best. Glass’s concerto has also proved to be one his most enduring ...

Opening nights are supposed to be festive, but they are also meant to establish a tone for the season ahead -- and they should leave an impression. Mobile Symphony Orchestra succeeded on all counts ...

Somewhere along the line in the promotion machine driving "The Seasons Project," someone misspoke. They called Philip Glass' freshly penned Violin Concerto No. 2 "The American Four Seasons," a ...

Violinist Robert McDuffie is a man on a mission: several missions, in fact. There’s the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University in his native Macon, with its unique hybrid curriculum ...

Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" is not only a cultural commonplace bordering by now on cliche, it's an inspiration to other composers as well. To the roster of remixes and musical translations we can now add ...

Lovers OF Antonio Vivaldi’s famous “Four Seasons,” that perpetual-motion music with the buoyant and beautiful melodies, might lift an eyebrow to hear what American violinist Robert McDuffie has to say ...