Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Each successive hearing of the Shostakovich Fourth Symphony, on CD or (all too rarely) in the concert hall, prompts a ...

The Wichita Symphony Orchestra has put together a program that explores the variations of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s masterful “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini,” Edward Elgar’s beloved “Variations on an ...

The history of orchestras is often traced through their music directors, but guest conductors can play a big role, too, and often for longer than any music director lasts. Leonard Slatkin has been ...

Describing the final concert of the Springfield Symphony Ortchestra's current season, an all-Rachmaninoff evening that will take place on Saturday, May 19, at 7:30 p.m., Maestro Kevin Rhodes called ...

The Kansas City Symphony will present a festive season finale June 23 to 25 at Helzberg Hall. Guest conductor Valentina Pellegi will lead the orchestra in music by Puccini and Tchaikovsky, and piano ...

The New West Symphony, conducted by music director Marcelo Lehninger, will play one program three times this weekend: at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27 in the Oxnard Performing Arts and Convention Center ...

It's 20 years since Shine was released, the film that launched Geoffrey Rush on to the Oscar stage, revived the career of its eccentric subject, pianist David Helfgott, and convinced us all that, when ...

AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) —The Amarillo Symphony is getting ready for another great concert on March 27th and 28th. The concert runs from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on both days at the Globe-News Center ...