The title "Mlada" may be obscure, but many of the piece's musical and dramatic elements are apt to be familiar to listeners. Rimsky-Korsakov's extravagantly fanciful 1892 opera, which forms the climax ...

If Cecil B. DeMille had taken it into his head to create a big-budget extravaganza on Russian-pagan themes with a score by Wagner and a host of visual and sound effects, the result might be something ...

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The composer's early life as a sailor informed his evocative music for Sinbad and other tales from the Arabian Nights. I want to tell you a story…but there’s more to this tale than words! It’s a story ...

Rachmaninoff was a world-renowned pianist who toured his whole life. From a recording he made in 1929, we hear Rachmaninoff himself play Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee. And from there, we ...

The Kennedy Center celebrated the National Symphony Orchestra's 95th anniversary with a gala featuring Music Director ...

Last week, Eric Simpson and I did a podcast, discussing the upcoming music season. Or, I should say, the second half of the season—the 2015–16 classical-music season in New York. I think of a music ...