Two timpani drums and other percussion make a sense of crashing bombs and gunshots, while the brass section also adds to the war-like mood of the piece. In the mournful Andante caloroso movement ...

Fuochi di passioni: itinerari di memorie, canti e rivoluzioni” is the project curated by Baba Yaga teatro, in collaboration ...

COYO's May 4 concert at Severance Music Center featured pianist Saya Uejima and bid farewell to music director Daniel Reith.

Huw Watkins’ Concerto for Orchestra, the fourth new work of his to be commissioned and premiered by the Hallé and Sir Mark Elder, is another beautifully crafted and highly appealing construction.It’s ...

Mainstream success has given contemporary jazz in the UK a wider audience. In 2023, The Ezra Collective became the first jazz ...

Musically the track is a Hendrix-suffused psychedelic rocker, and if not the catchiest melody on an album full of them, its overamped electric guitars are engagingly at odds with the slap-bass, ...

Dame Evelyn plays the Great Highland Bagpipes and has her own registered stage tartan known as “The Rhythms of Evelyn Glennie”. She also has her own jewellery range, and has confessed openly to ...

The goal is to purchase a Yamaha baby grand piano to replace the aging Steinway, but pianos are not a cheap purchase. The ...

Melbourne jazz-funk quintet Surprise Chef have just released Superb, their fourth album. Ahead of an expansive tour taking in Australia, North America and Europe, we chatted with Lachlan Stuckey, who ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — After serving as a percussion professor at the University of Arkansas for 50 years, Chalon Ragsdale has decided to put down the drum sticks and retire. Ragsdale came to ...

The work opened to the sound of French horns, big bangs on the timpani and a giant drum — and then the full sound of the French horns, the brass and the strings. Next came a light and lyrical passage ...