Brahms News

Title: Lubbock Symphony Orchestra's "Masterpieces of Vienna" Location: Civic Center Theatre Link out: Click here Description: Rooted in classical tradition, the works of these giant composers cast a powerfully intense shadow still felt today.

Two of Boston's many choruses are opening their seasons on Sunday, and both concerts mark important milestones in the groups' respective histories.

Only one of the 18 pianists in the South Bank's international piano series has programmed music by Brahms.

Pinchas Zukerman shows no sign of slowing down. At 61, after making music for more than 40 years, Zukerman's annual concert schedule includes more than 100 performances on five continents, conducting orchestras, playing chamber music and soloing on violin or viola.

I still like CDs. But whatever format you use to feed your music-listening habit, there are still some worthwhile classical recordings being released.

By the 19th century, composers began to play with sounds in the orchestra the way painters play with colors on their palate.

We asked, after a review of the Mendelssohn birthday concert at the Naples Philharmonic Center on Oct.

Valley Symphony Association is pleased to announce that its first concert of the 39th season will feature the music of great classical composers - Bach, Beethoven and Brahms! The orchestra will play Hungarian Dances by Brahms and Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No.

What is it about live music that gets us off our couches rather than throw on a favorite playlist and save the money? I suppose we in our double capital celebrate human theatre as much as any other burg, that universal experience of watching music happen in real time.

WALLS AND HOLES: Vancouver Symphony Orchestra music director Bramwell Tovey could moonlight flogging condos.

Cellist Zuill Bailey, left, will be making his debut as artistic director of El Paso Pro-Musica, and will perform with friend, pianist Awadagin Pratt, at concerts tonight at NMSU and Friday in El Paso.

When Chicago Symphony Orchestra violinist Edgar Muenzer established the Park Ridge Civic Orchestra in his hometown in 1994, he never dreamed it would become such a vital, thriving institution.

It's a bit like a novelist starting a new book with a blank sheet of paper. Where to start? As the Oxford Philomusica orchestra begins a new season, and enters its second decade playing to local audiences, I asked music director Marios Papadopoulos how he decides what to put on the menu.

The Kansas City Symphony conducted by Michael Stern will perform music steeped in the rhythms and deep soulfulness of Eastern Europe this weekend.

Saturday, Alys Stephens Center Presented by Birmingham Music Club ------------------------------ Four stars out of five ------------------------------ Gabriela Montero's crusade to liven up classical piano recitals with improvisation landed at Jemison Concert Hall Saturday night.

The famous "Three B's" of classical music are Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. Stick with those, and you can't go wrong.

Every generation produces a new crop of Shakespearean actors -- talents who honor the Bard while putting the stamp of their own times on those timeless masterpieces.

THE dotty diva's 12th album begins hopefully, with current single Obsessed, her musically bland but lyrically scabrous riposte to Eminem's allegations of a relationship.

Madison native David Finckel, hailed one of the preeminent cellists in the country, returns to his hometown Oct.

Valery Gergiev, Maurizio Pollini, Kent Nagano, Ingo Metzmacher and John Elion Gardner made a pilgrimage to Bonn this fall to take part in the Beethoven Festival - one of Europe's most prestigious classical music events, which ran throughout September under the motto 'In the Light,' giving center stage to extraordinary artists.