Had all gone according to plan three years ago, Chicagoans would have witnessed an unprecedented celestial event at Symphony Center. We’re not talking astronomy. April 2020 was to be the ...

Asmik Grigorian came out last night carrying her computer tablet (if I saw right). And I had to smile. In America, a union member would have to do that. Otherwise, there would be big trouble. On ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Inon Barnatan has created a solo transcription of “Symphonic Dances” in which he tries “not to imitate an orchestra, but to embody it.” By Joshua ...

Felder returns to Berkshire Theatre Group to portray the great Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, alongside Jonathan Silvestri as Tsar Nicholas II. Rachmaninoff and the Tsar will be performed live ...

Thirty-four years ago a gaunt young Russian with a crew haircut took over the job as chief conductor in the orchestra pit of Moscow’s Imperial Grand Theatre. Muscovite socialites liked the way he ...

To the haunting, wordless, and ethereal sound of solo soprano accompanied by a caressing orchestra, Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise ushers us into a lush garden of birch trees bordered by flowers, two ...

It’s not hyperbole to say that Rachmaninoff is in Russian-American pianist Olga Kern‘s DNA. “I play Rachmaninoff all my life,” said the 50-year-old Kern, who will play the composer’s Piano Concerto No ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — He is considered as one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century and 80 years ago, he took his final bow in Knoxville. Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff played his last recital at ...

Twenty-two years ago, Olga Kern walked onto the Bass Performance Hall stage in Fort Worth, Texas and sat before a grand piano. Surrounded by violists with raised bows, she began Sergei Rachmaninoff’s ...

Before the Revolution of 1917 Russia knew its Sergei Vassilievitch Rachmaninoff chiefly as a composer who patterned himself after Tchaikovsky and wrote gentle, nostalgic music according to 19th ...