New York Times music critic Anthony Tommasini once commented that there was an eerie similarity to the songs of contemporary American composers. In his learned ...
Concert seasons are planned far in advance and when the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra announced that violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman would be playing Max Bruch’s mo...
Travel on SC Highway 171 south from Charleston for about eight miles and you’ll arrive at Folly Beach, a simple seaside town with a lighthouse on one end and pl...
When solar winds convey charged particles from the sun, they collide with gasses in the Earth’s atmosphere and create a natural wonder, the Aurora Borealis. The...
If Finnish composer Jean Sibelius were alive today you might find him perusing the self-help section at Akateeminen Kirjakauppa, a massive bookstore in Helsinki...
Robert Spano announced exactly two years ago that he'll soon step down as the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's music director.The New York Times calls him the man w...
“Two souls with but one nasty thought; two pens that drool as one,” wrote New York critic W.J. Henderson in 1907, finding Oscar Wilde and Richard Strauss well m...
Numerous works have been derived from William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet. It’s the timeless and provocative story of two star-crossed lovers in Verona,...
Despite the claim of composer Dmitri Shostakovich that his final symphony contained no extra-musical meaning, doubt remains. Post-glasnost realizations make it ...
Everyone loves a good fairy tale. They’re relatable, tapping into deeply human themes like true love, heroism and justice. But there’s always an element of ench...
