Audiences are used to seeing Hershey Felder perform solo. In 1999, the pianist and actor Hershey Felder created a one-man show, “George Gershwin Alone.” He initially thought it would run for a short ...

One of the saddest and most paradoxical artistic exiles of the 20th century was Sergei Rachmaninoff, who fled the Russian Revolution and wound up in New York and Los Angeles, in equal measure ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Inon Barnatan has created a solo transcription of “Symphonic Dances” in which he tries “not to imitate an orchestra, but to embody it.” By Joshua ...

The next concert by the Academy Festival Orchestra begins at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Santa Barbara’s Granada Theatre. The academy calls this program “Daphnis and Chloe,” after the second work on the ...

Walt Disney Concert Hall is, as always at this time of year, decked out for Christmas and Hanukkah and in glittery expectation of New Year’s Eve. Meanwhile, on Friday morning, the obdurate Los Angeles ...

Lucky for TheatreWorks Silicon Valley audiences that he’s somehow found the time to come back to his Northern California artistic home for a month’s run of his newest and, he says, final composer play ...

While it’s never silent, it was still. I sat with my hands clasped, eyes closed. The audience was politely curious – what was I doing? Was I praying? If so, to whom? I threw the heavy blanket over my ...

Lise de la Salle will perform five Rachmaninoff concertos in concert, including the Third. “It’s definitely one of the most challenging pieces ever,” she said. Courtesy photo In her first trip to ...

April 1st is Sergei Rachmaninoff's 150th birth anniversary and his legacy is still up for discussion in some circles. At the heart of those discussions is the idea of "what makes a composer great?" ...

A young Sergei Rachmaninoff at the piano. We all need a little help from friends, and one of Sergei Rachmaninoff's most supportive friends was the great Russian composer Peter Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky ...