Tchaikovsky News

Barry Brake , Larry Strayhorn and Ron Wilkins will help present the Duke Ellington/ Billy Strayhorn version of "The Nutcracker Suite." At a glance What: Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn "The Nutcracker" When: 8:15 p.m. Friday-Saturday Where: Josephine Theatre, 339 W. Josephine St.

BRAD WHEELER From Saturday's Globe and Mail Published on Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009 12:00AM EST Last updated on Saturday, Nov.

CLASSICAL: Brahms shows his lighter side in his sunny Piano Concerto No. 2, a romantic epic that still manages to be playful.

ELISABETH Soderstrom, the Swedish soprano greatly admired for her sensitive operatic roles and for her refined, delicately shaded voice in a career spanning more than 50 years, has died of complications from a stroke in Stockholm.

THE Swedish soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom has died at the age of 82, the Royal Swedish Opera announced on Saturday.

Everybody came up a winner Saturday evening at the Klein Auditorium when the Greater Bridgeport Symphony spun the wheel for its "Russian Roulette" concert.

Monday morning I flipped through the radio stations and heard the unmistakable sounds of Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio in a . It was my first indication that 24-hour classical music station WCRB is really being bought by WGBH to continue as a 24-hour classical station -- but with WGBH's broader mix of music, not WCRB's mostly light classical .

Although he didn't take up serious piano studies until he was 16, Barry Douglas has gone on to a multifaceted career, winning the Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow and starting his own chamber orchestra in his native Belfast, Northern Ireland.

An opera by Tchaikovsky? It must be about Fate, with a capital F. Duels in the frosty dawn, blood on the snow.

From two stages in the Jackson area comes Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, a classical ballet that delights audiences young and old at Christmastime.

One of our favorite sarcastic endings to inject into a story that has lost its way is to announce "Suddenly everyone got run over by a bus." That allows us to walk away from the tale with some - admittedly dire - finality.

Nutcracker '09, a traditional version of Tchaikovsky's holiday classic, will be presented by the Purchase Dance Corps at the Purchase College Performing Arts Center on December 4, 5, 6. More than 200 area children will participate in this elaborately staged production.

Swing your razor wide, Sweeney. Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's revenge opera Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street brings all of its blood-soaked murders and gorgeous songs to Casa MaA ana this week.

When he grows up, Alexander Beyer wants to be an astrophysicist or an astronaut.

RenA©e Fleming's concert with Charles Dutoit and the Royal Philharmonic formed part of the South Bank's International Voices series, though why it should have was anyone's guess.

John Williams' Harry Potter theme has been voted the most popular classical music for children.

Not content to rest on her laurels, the American soprano Renee Fleming has been investigating unfamiliar repertoire in recent years.

The curtain will lift on Dublin's newest theatre next year with one of the best-known ballets.

These Bad Boys are the rock stars of the dance world, kinetic masters of time and space who can hit their marks with balletic precision or hang suspended in midair like Peter Pan.

Ballet Pensacola gets its 2009-10 season off to a very classical start with a performance of 'Sleeping Beauty' tonight at the Saenger Theatre.