On Saturday, May 11, at 5PM at The Sanctuary of Brick Presbyterian Church, the Sebastians will present The 24 Violins Cross the Alps. The renowned early music ensemble has been widely celebrated for ...

Was it the live music I missed most, or the intermissions — with all those delightful exchanges about the performers, the music, the weather, the traffic, or the seats? At last now — after the awful ...

A local nonprofit is aiming to keep kids out of trouble this summer through classical music. The Harmonic South String Orchestra provides string instrument training to youth in south Memphis and ...

Featuring more than 35 classical performances covering a wide range of eras and four family concerts, the Nashville ...

They may have sensed, as well, that acoustical challenges are not the only difficulty rock-fusion works pose. Rock fans often hear the results as watered down, while classical listeners hear them as ...

The performance of the Hummel Grand Concerto for bassoon from 1805 here is just superb. French-born Sophie Dervaux (née Dartigalongue, just like the armagnac) is principal bassoon in the Vienna ...

Strings, oboes, and horns do this well; the strident, nagging harpsichord, less so. Once major composers like Haydn and Mozart adopted the style, the core members of the orchestra were pretty much set ...

“Summertime and the livin’ is easy,” George Gershwin wrote, with lyrics by his brother Ira Gershwin and husband-and-wife duo, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward. It’s also the time for a great selection of ...

Classical music is an odd beast in today’s world. Some important people think it’s very important. Chambers of commerce, for instance, see it as an essential recruiting tool: Many high-level ...

A string quartet paying tribute to the high energy, high velocity Mahavishnu Orchestra of the early 1970s? An oxymoronic concept perhaps, but Veinnese radio.string.quartet's Celebrating The Mahavishnu ...