“Oompah! Oom-pah!” muttered the tympanist as he lashed about in a semicircle, flailing out a solo on his five kettledrums. Then he took a cue from Conductor Howard Mitchell, launched a new flight that ...

Last Saturday I reviewed a terrific performance of George Gershwin's Piano Concerto, played by the RSNO with music director Peter Oundjian conducting and Canadian pianist Jon Kimura Parker as soloist.

The Concerto for String Orchestra (1948) is commonly regarded as Grażyna Bacewicz's opus magnum and even called her "Ninth Symphony". It is unquestionably one of the foremost works of 20th century ...

A work which I could not rank among the most important ones in my music, 'Concerto for Orchestra' thus originated in a way which I had not quite expected, as a sort of a result of what was my episodic ...

A newly composed concerto for orchestra and tap dancer showcases the beauty of tap, which is enjoying a bit of a revival. Composer Rob Kapilow wrote the part of the dancer like a drum solo, without ...

The program called it a concerto, but the soloist was a soprano. For 24 minutes, off & on, Margot Rebeil warbled wordlessly, while the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under plump Eugene Goossens wove ...

The Master is back again, and this time he has come up with a record worthy of his reputation. So many grit-jive geniuses — Elvis, Little Richard, and Bo Diddley — have turned stiff in their old age.

Composers over the centuries have utilized music written by their predecessors as building blocks in their own works, whether Brahms’s “Variations on a Theme by Haydn,” Mozart’s “Variations on a Theme ...

It's his most famous piece, but there's more to Henry Litolff than just the Scherzo of this piano-accompanied symphony. The famous scherzo from Litolff's Concerto Symphonique No. 4 is a bracing, ...

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