SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — On Saturday, the Albany Symphony Orchestra continues its 2021-2022 season with a performance at Proctors in Schenectady. The major piece on the program is Nikolia Rimsky-Korsakov’s ...
At WSHU we like to think of ourselves as great storytellers, but we’ve got nothing on Scheherazade! Rimsky-Korsakov turns her 1,001 cliff-hangers into a musical page-turner. Follow every twist and ...
Awtar Quartet will play excerpts from Scheherazade and known compositions from the Arabic music repertoire at Al-Rabaa Cultural Centre On Sunday 21 June, four musicians will bring western classical ...
Some people feel like they’ve missed out because Mozart and Beethoven lived in a different century. But they’re overlooking the great artists who are in our midst today — composers writing music that ...
On 21 June, Awtar Quartet played excerpts from Korsakov’s famed Scheherazade as well as classical Arabic songs at the Ottoman building that houses Alrabaa cultural centre Children sprint after a ball, ...
The chance to hear a great living composer conducting his own music is rarity enough. But the new work John Adams has brought with him is rarer still: a composition created in the here-and-now that ...
Conductor JoAnn Falletta. Photo by Mark Dellas, courtesy of JoAnn Falletta. Who was Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and why does he have two last names? And why would a 19th century Russian composer write a ...
The composer’s latest work for violin and orchestra — he calls it a “dramatic symphony,” but surely “concerto” is also not far from the mark — sets a whole new standard for narrative and theatrical ...
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — On Saturday, the Albany Symphony Orchestra continues its 2021-2022 season with a performance at Proctors in Schenectady. The major piece on the program is Nikolia Rimsky-Korsakov’s ...