Orchestras in the United States face an array of existential challenges, including declining ticket sales, ever tougher competition for donations, rising costs and labor unrest. Many ensembles go [...]
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) was a musical prodigy with his earliest compositions penned at the age of 6. His career spans the period of Brahms’ greatest celebrity—Strauss helped to prepare the [...]
J. S. Bach has, since the 19th century, earned a place in the history of Western concert music that is perhaps unrivaled by any other composer. His name is enshrined […]