The chance to hear a great living composer conducting his own music is rarity enough. But the new work John Adams has brought with him is rarer still: a composition created in the here-and-now that ...

The Pacific Symphony’s programming of its classical orchestral series this season has been oddly and stiflingly unadventurous. With the exception of what turned out to be an ill-starred evening of ...

With the sensuous and seductive melodies of Rimsky-Korakov’s Scheherazade, we dedicate this concert to the violin. Concertmaster Geoffrey Trabichoff will enchant us as the violin voice of Scheherazade ...

John Adams’ “Scheherazade.2,” an epic new violin concerto written for Leila Josefowicz and performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Thursday night with the composer conducting, was given its premiere ...

On 21 June, Awtar Quartet played excerpts from Korsakov’s famed Scheherazade as well as classical Arabic songs at the Ottoman building that houses Alrabaa cultural centre Children sprint after a ball, ...

Conductor Mei-Ann Chen has a great answer to the question of whether she misses performing violin. No, the Taiwanese-American conductor who earned a performance degree in violin will tell you. “In ...

A theme of mortality permeates the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s latest program. It’s most evident in “Beautiful Passing,” an extraordinary work for violin and orchestra by Steven Mackey, written ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Art has always reflected the times in which it’s made. That’s no less true today. As Exhibit A, consider composer John Adams’ ...

Art has always reflected the times in which it’s made. That’s no less true today. As Exhibit A, consider composer John Adams’ “Scheherazade.2.” In the original stories of the “Thousand and One Nights, ...

The Canada-based Les Arrivants Trio performs with the Glacier Symphony Feb. 22 and 23 at the Wachholz College Center in Kalispell. (Courtesy photo) The Glacier Symphony presents “Scheherazade” ...