Three live, very alive Symphonie fantastiques in a year may seem a lot. But such is Berlioz’s precise, unique and somehow ...

Mahler’s Third Symphony, An Ode to Nature, opened with a cloudburst of sound as eight horns intoned the opening theme in ...

The New York Times reached out to a wide range of creative people, including writers, actors, comedians and musicians, to find out how they warm up for their gigs. Some rituals were simple, others ...

it is set in an offbeat staccato style that brings ... as in the solemn combination of celesta, harp and timpani, frosted over with quiet strings, that accompanies the announcement of Fulvia ...

Pianist Mari Kodama plays the “Pathétique” Sonata, No. 8 in c minor, Op. 13, by Ludwig van Beethoven. Mari Kodama played the “Pathétique” Sonata, part of a Pentatone recording of Beethoven’s complete ...

Peter Boyer didn’t set out to make a political statement when ... “Today We Ask,” his 2023 work for mixed choir, brass quintet and timpani celebrating the coronation of King Charles II ...

Mainstream success has given contemporary jazz in the UK a wider audience. In 2023, The Ezra Collective became the first jazz group to win the prestigious Mercury Prize, as well as the first jazz act ...

I showed up in New Mexico with $500 in parts and an aim to drive this truck 1700 miles home to Tennessee in the heat of ...

This is one rock band that can blend in violin, vibraphones and even timpani the way most bands simply change up guitar pedals. Some of the older tunes that dotted the set list were given new ...

The Florida Orchestra’s long-time principal timpanist retires this month after nearly 40 years of pounding away in the back ...

Welcome to another exhilarating edition of Google I/O, where Google's vision for the future of technology is laid out like a ...

At the start of the 70s, Pike led The Dave Pike Set, jettisoning bop for an explorative ... and turned down an opportunity to study classical timpani at Juilliard to pursue a career as a jazz ...