When’s the last time you heard “Bolero”? A recording? As a backdrop for a commercial? A musical score for a movie? Any chance you heard it played by a full orchestra in a big concert hall? If you’re ...

Ravel’s Bolero was written by the composer in 1928. Yet, the piece gained new attention when it was prominently featured in the 1979 romantic comedy, “10” costarring Dudley Moore and Bo Derek. We ...

Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through our links on this page. Generally, if I see three harps onstage, I will walk out of a concert hall. On Tuesday evening I tried, ...

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA begins its 2023/24 season on September 23 and 24 with guest soloist Antonio Pompa-Baldi performing Rachmaninoff’s lyrical and enduring Piano Concerto No. 2. VSO ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — The Albany Symphony Orchestra has a splendid program of classical music coming up at the Palace Theatre on Saturday night. On the program is Hector Berlioz’ masterpiece “Symphonie ...

The New Jersey Symphony kept things simple Sunday afternoon in Morristown. They played mostly French music, so one is tempted to use the Gallic word for simple, “facile.” Both these words describe the ...

The students of the University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra tackled three works Friday night that pose challenges for most professional ensembles: Ravel's "Bolero," Bartok's Music for Strings, ...

The Fort Smith Symphony may have been small when it was founded in 1923, but it was clearly mighty. It is, after all, about to celebrate its 100th season. In the annals of Arkansas history, the Fort ...