The Mozart Oboe Concerto begins normally enough. The orchestra introduces two themes, one jaunty, one questioning. But then something odd happens. “The oboist enters with this crazy scale up to a high ...

Last month, Erin Hannigan was preparing for her last two performances as Dallas Symphony’s principal oboist before joining the faculty at the prestigious Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in ...

There are as many misconceptions about the classical music world among audiences as there are viola jokes among musicians. Everybody thinks the classical music world is a sacred temple, a rarefied ...

Mozart wrote his first opera at 12, and went on to pen 22 in the course of his life This summer there’s a rare opportunity to see Mozart’s La finta giardiniera fully staged in a new Glyndebourne ...

Opera Saratoga has made good use of its new home at Universal Preservation Hall in Saratoga Springs. In programming her first season as general and artistic director of Opera Saratoga, Mary Birnbaum ...

Sonata for Keyboard and Violin No. 32 Olivier Stankiewicz, Oboe Jonathan Ware, Piano Sonata for Keyboard and Violin No. 21 Olivier Stankiewicz, Oboe Jonathan Ware, Piano Sonata for Keyboard and Violin ...