Had all gone according to plan three years ago, Chicagoans would have witnessed an unprecedented celestial event at Symphony Center. We’re not talking astronomy. April 2020 was to be the ...

Sergei Rachmaninoff's piano concertos are performed into the ground the world over. But his 85 songs are mostly neglected, perhaps because he lost the inspiration for them after he left Russia, not ...

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 ...

Sergei Rachmaninoff is remembered for his rich, sweeping and often complex melodies that evoke the sounds and sights of his native Russia. But what most people don’t know about the famed composer is ...

Sunday afternoon in Walt Disney Concert Hall, composer and pianist Nicholas Britell played a riff on Rachmaninoff as a surprise encore to his Los Angeles Philharmonic concert of film music. The crowd ...

And now it was Rachmaninoff. The movies, the jukeboxes and the radio had taken first the works of Tchaikovsky, then of Chopin, strung puerile words to them, given them everything from a boogie beat to ...

I want to say a special word about Dave Malloy’s “Preludes,” because it is the work of an artist who is not afraid to try things, or to create worlds that haven’t necessarily been seen before, and, ...

Terry Heimat and Alex Sino released the new crossover composition “Rachmaninoff en Ritmo,” the first single of the upcoming album “Funky Sonatas”, featuring the internationally renowned pianist, Dr.

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?" ...

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