Brahms News

Economic turmoil. War. Chaos and totalitarianism. You think things are bad now? Let the In Series and the Washington Ballet transport you back to a Germany book-ended by World Wars.

It's today's younger pianists who are giving us our finest insights into Brahms.

Ottawa's National Arts Centre Orchestra is where scores by Mozart and Brahms are illuminated with traditional precision.

Is Brahms in need of rescue? Presumably the audiences who still regularly flock to Brahms concerts don't think so, but characteristically, Sir John Eliot Gardiner is bent on showing there is a lost Brahms ...

"In about 20 years, we will rarely hear Brahms in the concert hall; we will mostly hear contemporary music." A bold prediction, particularly as dwindling audiences for classical music have most orchestras ...

It was Easter weekend, a time when lamb springs up on menus all around the city and, as I learned eventually, many Hamburgers take off to go skiing.

Tonight, the Boston Symphony Orchestra performs Brahms's "German Requiem" in Symphony Hall .

The audience gets its chance to sing along with the Arizona Symphonic Winds when the volunteer ensemble closes its 2008 fall parks series tonight.

Pianist Stephen Manes has been a creative musical force in Western New York for quite some time, and it has almost always been a pleasure to see what sounds he would coax from the keyboard.

In:Site, a local organization that organizes temporary public art projects, will celebrate the unveiling of a new cycle Saturday with an opening reception at the Sherman Park Community Association, 3526 W. Fond ...

Ian Wilson's Contemplates "The Crater." Singer-songwriter Ian Wilson is not quite your typical queer male musician.

The Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra opens its 47th season, "A Celebration in Sound," at 8 p.m. Saturday with a Brahms and Beethoven program by pianist Julius-Jeongwon Kim from Korea.

It won't win prizes for cutting-edge concert programming, but the 10-day Mozart-Brahms Festival that will open the National Arts Centre Orchestra season next week has been a big hit at the box office, with help ...

TV Online DPO kicks off season with pair of classical events Tuesday, September 16, 2008 DAYTON - The Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra plans to kick off its 2008-09 season this week with a variety of activities.

East Village Opera Company gives its take on opera at Proctors in Schenectady on Oct.

Rachel Barton Pine loves to make musical discoveries. Like the fact that the former lead guitarist of The Scorpions, Uli Roth, got the idea for his now-famous heavy metal guitar lick from the solo part of the ...

Czech pianist Libor Novacek's considerable reputation rests primarily on his Liszt performances, though he is also a superb Brahmsian if this startling recital is anything to go by.

It's a grand autumn for primo pianists. The wisdom of experience and energy of youth will be displayed at the ivories this season.

What : Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Wagner's "Die Meistersinger" Prelude, Brahms' Violin Concerto in D, Beethoven's Symphony No.

The 2008-2009 season is conductor Andreas Delfs' second with the Honolulu Symphony, which means it is the first in which the programming is wholly his own.