Schoenberg News

In 1884, Pierrot Lunaire: Rondels Bergamasques , a collection of 50 poems by symbolist Belgian poet Albert Giraud was published.

Is the human brain naturally bent toward harmonic music? The Riverside County Philharmonic will offer the audience the opportunity to make that determination when it presents the music of Arnold Schoenberg, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff in the season finale on Saturday, May 18 at the Fox Performing Arts Center in Riverside.

Few composers have filmed one another, fewer still have paid for another's recordings.

Where once gunfire tore apart the Tuscan estate of La Foce - as told in Iris Origo's memoir War in the Val d'Orcia - now classical music brings people together A hush falls over the moonlit courtyard.

SPCO conductor Thomas Zehetmair during the overture to "The Marriage of Figaro" on Thursday, May 9, 2013, at Apple Valley's Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church.

Among the current crop of composers, Wolfgang Rihm stands out from his colleagues for the ways in which he can harness his prodigious understanding of theory to an ingenious repertoire of practices.

Ten years ago Dutch violinist Janine Jansen established the annual International Chamber Music Festival based in Utrecht, and she has curated that Festival regularly since then.

Consider the binary qualities of the symbol of a window. Peer outside and it acts as a portal for a world that's within reach, yet somehow untouchable.

Thursday-Saturday: The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra is back! The air is certain to be emotionally charged as musicians return to perform the final concerts of their season, following a lockout of more than seven months.

With set and lighting by Marcus Doshi and projections by Sven Ortel, In the Garden of Dreams kindles the creative zeitgeist of fin de sicle Vienna.

Monday night, May 6th at 9:00 PM, Front Row Washington offers "Between Two Worlds: Jewish Voices in Modern European Music." Presented by Pro Musica Hebraica , this Kennedy Center Terrace Theater concert features the Ariel Quartet and pianist Orion Weiss in works by four composers from the last generation of pre-war European Jews: Erwin Schulhoff, ... (more)

The performers at today's Noontime ConcertsTM recital at Old St. Mary's Cathedral were violinist Daniel Lewin, pianist Helene Wickett, and cellist Joel Cohen.

The Berliner Philharmoniker has announced its 2013-14 season, including 117 orchestral concerts and four opera performances of which chief conductor Sir Simon Rattle will conduct 57 concerts .

SF Ballet has announced that Principal Dancer Pierre-FranA ois Vilanoba will retire from its roster at the conclusion of the 2013 Repertory Season.