What a difference an artistic appointment can make. An orchestra’s music director makes many choices during the course of a season, but certainly one of Ludovic Morlot’s best decisions for 2015-16 was ...

It opens with a sudden “crack of the whip” setting off a race between the piccolo and the piano. Next weekend, Allison Cerutti will be the featured soloist when the Vermont Philharmonic performs Ravel ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. You could arguably call it a facelift. After Charlotte Symphony's powerful ...

Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 4; Britten: Diversions for Piano and Orchestra (Leon Fleisher, piano; Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa, conductor; Sony ...

Pianist, Nicholas McCarthy, who was born without a right hand, invites us behind the scenes as he prepares for his concerto debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Nicholas shares the story of ...

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Maurice Ravel talked about his pieces of music as if they were his children. While he was working on his Piano Concerto in G Major, he wrote to a friend, "(I am) in the middle of my pregnancy with the ...

If you’re worried that the combination of Debussy and Ravel — two of the most calm-inducing composers of the last 150 years or so — will lull you to sleep and make it hard to drive home from the ...

Symphoria’s Music Director, Lawrence Loh, will conduct a Feb. 19 concert featuring the music of three composers who were contemporaries, born within a three-year span from 1873 to 1875: Samuel ...

Concert pianist Nicholas McCarthy remembers the moment he decided the piano was for him. He was watching his friend play Beethoven’s “Waldstein Sonata”. “This is it,” he said. “This is what I want to ...