Walt Disney Concert Hall, winter home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, photographed on Feb. 14, 2018. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) So much so that Overheard L.A. even created its own ...
Sometimes it takes a first-rate artist to breathe life into a second-rate piece of music. Let's be honest, the set of piano miniatures called The Seasons is not top-shelf Tchaikovsky. Especially if ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Tchaikovsky has been saved by his sad story. At times when absolute ...
On Thursday, the Halycon Music Festival opens its second season with a concert including Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s 1892 string sextet “Souvenir de Florence.” The piece cost Tchaikovsky six years of ...
Throughout his life, Tchaikovsky wrote several famous concerti, including one for the violin and three for the piano. As his career developed, he had promised to write a cello concerto. During this ...
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 ...
Itzhak Perlman's strengths as a conductor are clear and consistent. He fares best in music that is emotionally direct and transparent, with plenty of throbbing urgency. In Davies Symphony Hall on ...
In 1891, headlines in The Sun hailed the great Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky’s only visit to Baltimore. “Great Tschaikowsky” and “One of the Master Composers of the Present Age,” streamed ...
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) – Russian gold medalists at the Tokyo Olympics are set to hear music by Tchaikovsky as the replacement for their national anthem, which has been banned as punishment for ...
Audience members at the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony late last month were surprised by an abrupt noise in the middle of the second movement. After one ...