Music has a life-giving force and uncanny power of resilience. Bela Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra was written on what many thought was the composer’s deathbed, but bringing it into the world gave ...

Hungary’s greatest composer Béla Bartók moved to New York during World War II, and he overcame serious health problems to create a musical masterpiece showing off all the instruments of the orchestra ...

It was a novel idea when Bela Bartok came up with it in the early 1940's: a concerto not for a single solo instrument, but for the entire orchestra at the same time, with melodic lines and ideas ...

Friday night was the concert for the San Antonio Symphony musicians, individually and collectively, to exhibit their immense talents. They did so by performing Bela Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, ...

What do you get when you cross an insurance salesman with a church organist? One of America’s most remarkable composers. Charles Ives’ Third Symphony is based on hymns he learned while working as an ...

Augustin Hadelich is a young violinist who's been getting the right kind of attention lately. Recently, the Boston Globe praised his "complete command over dynamics, phrasing and tone color." But one ...