The gentleman filing out of the concert hall behind me at intermission was one indication that Thursday evening’s concert by the National Symphony Orchestra was a night of discovery. Another ...
Another indicator was the rapt attention paid by a commendably silent audience throughout this ear-opening program of Russian music: Prokofiev’s “Summer Night” suite from his 1946 opera ...
Of the more than 300 works "transmitted" to her, most came from classical composers, but there were also works from John Lennon and jazz pianist 'Fats' Waller. Eccentric Australian composer Percy ...
For the next 35 years he generated booms in opera, choral and instrumental playing, and London attracted a wealth of major European composers, Mozart, Chopin and Mahler among them. The Victorian era ...