This week would have been the 128th birthday of one of Russian’s most famous composers, Modest Mussorgsky. Some of you might know him as the composer of Pictures at an Exhibition, but all of you know ...

A ‘cradle-to-grave songspiel’ describing the arc of a woman’s life is brilliantly conceived by soprano Booth and pianist Glynn Modest Mussorgsky is indisputably one of the greatest of 19th-century ...

After a somewhat low-key — pun intended — beginning on Friday night, the San Diego Symphony launched its monthlong “Upright & Grand” piano festival into powerhouse territory Saturday evening with a ...

Violinist Julian Rhee, the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra’s second “Artist of Distinction” for its 2025-26 season, solos in ...

I MUSICI DE MONTREAL On the program: Mussorgsky, "Pictures at an Exhibition"; Tchaikovsky, "Souvenir of Florence"; Borodin, "Nocturne." Yuli Turovsky, conductor. Presented by Birmingham Music Club.

“Unorthodox” is a description you could apply to much of the music by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky (1839-81). He was born into wealth (fellow composer Borodin once called him “an elegant ...

The Vermont Symphony Orchestra is embracing the exotic when it opens its 2025-26 season next weekend in Burlington and Rutland, but it hasn’t forgotten to include a beloved “war horse.” “It all ...

Most have heard the famous opening of Mussorgsky/Ravel’s “Pictures at an Exhibition,” with its regal brass chorale used in films, TV, video games, and even as WWE entrance music. This year, we mark ...

Olga Kern, a pianist steeped in the Russian tradition, performs two pieces by Sergei Rachmaninoff from his Op. 3 collection of "Morceaux Fantaisie," or fantasy pieces: "Melodie" and "Serenade." Then ...

It's 1598: tsar Fyodor dies and guards and priests force the crowd to beg Boris to become tsar of Russia. Finally, the coronation takes place in the Kremlin's cathedral square in an imposing ceremony ...