Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The last of the Romantics, Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff forged a ...

While the renowned Russian conductor Dima Slobodeniouk makes his Baltimore Symphony Orchestra debut leading pianist Simon Trpceski in Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 4 on Saturday night at ...

Oct. 8—Russian American pianist Olga Kern boasts familial connections with both Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff. The Albuquerque favorite (a regular here, she usually sells out) will perform a concerto ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. On January 10 at Coral Gables Congregational United Church of Christ, ...

Twenty-two years ago, Olga Kern walked onto the Bass Performance Hall stage in Fort Worth, Texas and sat before a grand piano. Surrounded by violists with raised bows, she began Sergei Rachmaninoff’s ...

Two days after the announcement that in a full 43 months, or approximately 1,300 days, Gustavo Dudamel will become music director of the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s music ...

In response to a query about his favorite composer, pianist/writer/actor Hershey Felder pauses then gives a diplomatic reply. Invariably, his favorite composer is the one he’s playing, said Felder, ...

Among Sergei Rachmaninoff's grandest musical expressions are his piano concertos, because he conceived them for himself as the soloist. We take you to a concert in Frankfurt to hear Rachmaninoff's ...

Wael Farouk is a completionist. The last time the pianist played with the New Philharmonic, in Glen Ellyn, he tackled all five Beethoven concerti in a single concert. Before that, he performed the ...

April 1st is Sergei Rachmaninoff's 150th birth anniversary and his legacy is still up for discussion in some circles. At the heart of those discussions is the idea of "what makes a composer great?" ...

The first sounds I heard after arriving at Philip Glass’ townhouse in Manhattan’s then-bohemian East Village to interview the composer in 1993 were extraordinary. Glass happened to be in his kitchen ...