The Detroit Symphony Orchestra plays four Ives symphonies. by Paul J. Pelkonen The perihelion of Halley's Comet inspired Charles Ives' Symphony No. 4. Of all the orchestras scheduled for this year’s Spring For Music festival a...

The Buffalo Philharmonic plays Spring For Music. by Paul J. Pelkonen The Russian hero Ilya Muromets and his horse Burushka, as depicted in Vladimit Toropchin's Ilya Muromets and Nightingale the Robber © 2007 Melnitsa Animation Stu...

The Albany Symphony Orchestra plays at Spring For Music. by Ellen Fishbein Albany Symphony Orchestra music director David Alan Miller. The third annual Carnegie Hall Spring For Music festival continued Tuesday night with the Alb...

The Albany Symphony Orchestra plays at Spring For Music. by Ellen Fishbein Albany Symphony Orchestra music director David Alan Miller. The third annual Carnegie Hall Spring For Music festival continued Tuesday night with the Alb...

The New York Philharmonic goes inside the mind of its Music Director. by Paul J. Pelkonen What is on Alan Gilbert's playlist?Original photo by Chris Lee © 2013 The New York Philharmonic.Photo alteration by the author. The June s...

Robert Lepage's Ring may face the scrap heap. by Paul J. Pelkonen Up in flames: a scene from Act III of the Metropolitan Opera production of Götterdämmerung.Image © 2012 The Metropolitan Opera. According to an article published ...

Maurizio Pollini plays Carnegie Hall. by Paul J. Pelkonen Preacher man: Maurizio Pollini played Beethoven at Carnegie Hall this Sunday. Photo © Universal Classics. The return of pianist Maurizio Pollini to the concert stage of ...

The Kronos Quartet returns to New York. by Paul J. Pelkonen The Kronos Quartet: Hank Dutt, Jeffery Zeigler, David Harrington, John Sherba. The Kronos Quartet returned to Carnegie Hall's downstairs Zankel Hall on Friday night. Th...

Evgeny Kissin plays Carnegie Hall. by Ellen Fishbein The pianist Evgeny Kissin returned to Carnegie Hall on Friday night. Photo © EMI Classics. On Friday night, pianist Evgeny Kissin presented a program at Carnegie Hall that wa...

The American Symphony Orchestra presents Hungary Torn by Paul J. Pelkonen The damage done to Hungary by the right-wing "Arrow Cross" movement and the Nazis has forever scarred the country's cultural heritage. Photoshop by the auth...