Scheherazade, the story-telling Arabian queen from "One Thousand and One Nights," has captured the Western artistic imagination for centuries. In her latest incarnation, she is depicted by a violin as ...

This weekend, the Houston Symphony is offering the trip of a lifetime, and there's no need to pack a suitcase. Sail through crashing seas with Sinbad, waltz alongside the budding romance of two young ...

The chance to hear a great living composer conducting his own music is rarity enough. But the new work John Adams has brought with him is rarer still: a composition created in the here-and-now that ...

Some people feel like they’ve missed out because Mozart and Beethoven lived in a different century. But they’re overlooking the great artists who are in our midst today — composers writing music that ...

A woman under attack, confronting a chorus of hostile male voices yet replying calmly and confounding her tormenters with reason: That’s the premise of John Adams’ “Scheherazade.2,” a “Dramatic ...

Two iconic crowd-pleasers are on tap as the Brott Music Festival opens its summer season next Wednesday night in Brantford’s Sanderson Centre. Iconic crowd-pleasers from Russia, that is. And they are ...

The Pacific Symphony’s programming of its classical orchestral series this season has been oddly and stiflingly unadventurous. With the exception of what turned out to be an ill-starred evening of ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Oregon Symphony has announced a historic performance that bridges ...