mendelssohn

The Prague Philharmonia Bring Their Music – and Musicianship – to Carnegie Hall

Identity is an elusive quality among today’s symphony orchestras. Whereas orchestras were once home-grown, populated by players largely from within their own borders, today they have become global ensembles, drawing […]

Tags: beethoven, carnegie hall, chamber orchestra, classical music, czech music, Dvorak, mendelssohn, mozart, prague, prague philharmonia

A Weekend of New (and not so new) Music at Tanglewood

LENOX, MA – One of the things that’s most satisfying about Tanglewood, the longtime summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is that as the day-to-day world convulses with the

Tags: andris nelsons, Bach, beethoven, boston symphony orchestra, classical music, Emanuel Ax, john williams, lang lang, mahler, maria duenas, mendelssohn, Saint-Saens, tanglewood

Philadelphia Orchestra Plays Bartók at Carnegie

What better way to spend Valentine's Day than with the orchestra from the City of Brotherly Love? On Tuesday night, the Philadelphia Orchestra came to Carnegie Hall with their Chief

Tags: bartok, carnegie hall, charles dutoit, Frank Martin, james ehnes, mendelssohn, Philadelphia Orchestra