The Aspen Music Festival has delivered some splendid big-performance pieces for final concerts over the years, but it’s been a long time since anything made so completely magnificent an impact as ...

"I am thrilled to lead The National Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorale in what is one of the most unique works in the choral-orchestral repertoire," said Engebretson. "NatPhil will share the stage ...

It depends on where you sit, but even in the very front row of the seating under the dome, what in continental terms would be seen as a VIP seat but made available because the three unreserved press ...

Falletta, the orchestra’s music director, makes sure the score’s fervent pages receive full, dramatic justice. When the brass choirs and timpani make their first entrance in the ‘Dies irae’, you feel ...

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Hector Berlioz may be the most misunderstood of all great composers. To this day, he is caricatured as a tousle-headed, opium-munching, Heaven-storming romantic, a fount of revolutionary fire. Well ...