Dvorak was excited to come to America when the invitation first came, but after three years — and many ups and downs — he was tired of the city, of the hectic schedule, and of not being able to write ...
Where: Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox, 1001 W. Sprague Ave. Cost: $19-$60. Tickets available through the box office, by calling (509) 624-1200, at www.ticketswest.com and all TicketsWest outlets.
The Harrisburg Symphony concert taking place twice this weekend is about the most exciting ever in the long time I've been a fan of the orchestra, and that's really saying something. I began attending ...
Antonin Dvorak composed “Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in B Minor” in 1894. But the cello on which this piece will be played on Saturday and Sunday, April 9–10, in Grand Junction is older than that ...
may not know it, but he has a teenage fan club. After the orchestra’s Bartók/Dvorák/Mozart concert last Saturday, a group of nattily dressed youngsters — high-school-age, to my eye — chattered outside ...
British pianist Stephen Hough, regarded as a renaissance man of his time, returns to New York for the first of two Carnegie Hall engagements this season. On January 15, Mr. Hough plays Dvorak's Piano ...
Concertos are sometimes like brides abandoned at the church door by their intended soloists. Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 was one such work, as was his Violin Concerto. Antonin Dvorák’s Violin ...
The Cello Concerto was the last of the three scores Antonín Dvorák wrote during his three-year residency in the U.S., when he served as director of the National Conservatory in New York City from 1892 ...
Houston Symphony presents Dvorak Violin Concerto & Sibelius 1 live at Jones Hall starting March 3. Renowned Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä interprets music of Finland’s greatest musical export, Jean ...
American orchestras have a grand old tradition of scheduling a box office favorite—such as Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony—after intermission on a program that includes an unfamiliar work—such as ...
There are times when a performance seems so right that you feel the players have somehow restored order to a random universe — or, at least, to one fortunate little corner of it. Thursday night’s ...