The BPO Classics Series, titled SHOSTAKOVICH NO. 5, opened Friday, February 6 at 10:30 (a “coffee concert”) and will conclude ...

Elizabeth Alker introduces a selection of exclusive recordings for the afternoon, marking the 250th anniversary of American Independence. Today's Classical Live includes music by Leonard Bernstein, ...

• Overture Center provides tactile tours that allow visually impaired patrons to touch set pieces, props and costumes from Broadway shows • The program helps people with visual impairments better ...

Lies of P captured imaginations when it was released back in 2023. It was a totally different way to imagine the tale of Pinocchio, giving players a challenge to rival that of the Dark Souls series ...

The War of 1812 is today a vague mystery, sometimes confused with the “1812 Overture” played at July 4 fireworks shows, but actually a Russia battle repelling an invasion by Emperor Napoleon.

Yo-Yo Ma was the picture of cello perfection on Thursday evening, Nov. 6 at Severance Music Center, performing with The Cleveland Orchestra as if for the thousandth time — or the first. Relaxed, head ...

Nervously clutching a lanyard, a plump, bald little man stood in Manhattan’s Madison Square Garden one night last week, out of sight of the audience but within range of a large orchestra whose members ...

Over the past 145 years, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” has been used to celebrate July 4th, sell cereal and astound movie audiences. It’s been sampled and spoofed, with popping balloons ...

Somehow, over the past half-century and with hardly anyone noticing, the 19th century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky has become as integral to the Fourth of July as George Washington and ...

Every Fourth of July, the Boston Pops concert on the Esplanade ends with a bang. And it isn't just fireworks. The high point of the 1812 Overture includes firing cannons. The piece is about Russia's ...

MADISON, Wis. -- When you hear some big booms in downtown Madison Wednesday night, don't say you weren't warned. The Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra will sound cannons during Wednesday's Concerts on the ...

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