The Music: Outside Russia, Rimsky-Korsakov’s music is little known beyond the exotic oriental world of his orchestral suite Scheherazade. The good news is that there’s plenty more where this came from ...
Said to have been caused by careless builders, a fire at Rimsky-Korsakov’s estate has done untold damage, destroying thousands of artefacts belonging to the 19th-century Russian composer. This weekend ...
As symphonic openings go, this has to be one of the subtlest and most mysterious, a pizzicato passcaglia theme emerging imperceptibly on double bass. You’re reminded of the passacaglia from Britten’s ...
Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Rimsky-Korsakov's short opera, Mozart and ...
If Cecil B. DeMille had taken it into his head to create a big-budget extravaganza on Russian-pagan themes with a score by Wagner and a host of visual and sound effects, the result might be something ...
Chopin’s solo piano études helped push the genre into uncharted territory. He would have practiced examples by Czerny and Clementi in his youth, but his own Op. 10 and Op. 25 sets make far more ...
Hear two selections from 'Scheherazade' conducted by Marin Alsop's mentor, Leonard Bernstein (leading the New York Philharmonic in 1959). For centuries, composers have tried to spin tales in music. My ...
Daniel Bruce, beginning his second season as music director of the Montpelier Chamber Orchestra, felt the 40-member community ...
London's Time Zone Theatre last year announced a crowd funding campaign to bring their interpretation of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Mozart&Salieri to UK theaters. The plans for the fresh ...
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