On Tuesday, April 29 at 7PM, Joe's Pub at The Public Theater will present LUCINE! or birdshit: a human concerto with string & void, an experimental new work by Christian De Gré Cárdenas, a theatrical ...

The Concerto for String Orchestra (1948) is commonly regarded as Grażyna Bacewicz's opus magnum and even called her "Ninth Symphony". It is unquestionably one of the foremost works of 20th century ...

Wu Man, "the world's finest player of the pipa" (The New York Times), will make her San Francisco Symphony subscription series debut on Friday, February 11 and Saturday, February 12 at 7:30 p.m. PT as ...

Martinu: Double Concerto, Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra, Tre Ricercari (Jean-Francois Heisser, Alain Plaines, pianos; Orchestre National de France, James Conlon, conductor; Erato).

Taiwanese-Australian violinist Ray Chen gives us all a lesson in how to recover an unexpected instrument mishap without missing a beat. While performing Tchaikovsky’s majestic Violin Concerto with the ...

Variety is the spice of life. When a new ensemble emerges and offers something beyond the customary “meat-and-two-veg” billing (a symphony preceded by an overture and concerto) of the flagship ...

Composers over the centuries have utilized music written by their predecessors as building blocks in their own works, whether Brahms’s “Variations on a Theme by Haydn,” Mozart’s “Variations on a Theme ...

Watch this cool-headed soloist do exactly the right thing in one of the most stressful concert situations imaginable. You know when you’re playing Britten’s violin concerto and your E-string snaps?