Most would agree that Vagn Holmboe (1909-1996) was Denmark's greatest symphonist after Carl Nielsen and Rued Langgaard. So it's something of an occasion that the three chamber symphonies from the ...

Many who come here tonight may not know a lot about classical music, but that's part of the experiment. Soundbox is designed to appeal to people, many of them younger people, who never have attended ...

To better understand the pleasures of the symphony, Melanie Lowe, an assistant professor of musicology at Vanderbilt University, tries on some historical ears. In Pleasure and Meaning in the Classical ...

For a Russian composer, 1917 cannot have been an easy year to concentrate on work. There were strikes and anti-war marches that led, bit by bit, to the overthrow of the Czar. Food shortages in the big ...

“Necroclassical”. Now, there’s a musical genre that I can safely say I’ve never heard before. In fact, it’s probably safe to say that it’s a new genre for many of you as well as it’s a term coined by ...

The San Francisco Symphony’s rebrand aims to draw in a wider audience. Times have been changing at the San Francisco Symphony. Michael Tilson Thomas, the orchestra’s music director of 25 years, ...

This summer we've been chasing the idea of the Great American Symphony. Is there one? Who is still writing symphonies? And does anyone care about the state of symphonic music in this country? David ...