Franz Schubert (1797–1828) routinely gathered with friends to perform his compositions, engaging in lively discussion and ...
The Aiken Symphony will showcase the great talents of eight of its musicians from the strings, winds and brass sections in an ...
Scottish-American soprano Mary Garden (1874-1967) portrayed Goethe's character Gretchen, known as Marguerite in Charles Gounod's opera Faust. Two hundred years ago today, a 17-year-old kid from Vienna ...
Training young performers in the fine art of song singing has unfortunately taken a back seat to developing operatic talent in most vocal education programs across the country. The Collaborative Arts ...
Ravinia may be the only music festival in the world where the performances are routinely put on hold until passing trains are safely out of earshot. That happened in the Rachmaninoff ”Rhapsody on a ...
Friday was the final evening at the Source Song Festival, the fourth since pianist Mark Bilyeu and mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski hatched a plan to give classical art song an annual week of show-and-tell ...
If you would have told Austrian composer Franz Schubert that an ensemble of musicians, led by American expatriate Bryan Benner, would be reimagining his classical scores nearly 200 years later, he ...
In his first appearance at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall on Sunday night, German tenor Jonas Kaufmann and longtime collaborator and pianist Helmut Deutsch offered a feast of lieder, familiar and not ...