Considering how simple and obvious an idea it is, it’s puzzling that there have been so relatively few really successful marriages of orchestral music with the spoken word. Of the perhaps several ...
Going with your gut isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be. If one of the composers next up at the symphony had followed his first reaction to a request for music, the world would have lost some great ...
*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Georgia Jarman and Caleb Mayo in "Peer Gynt" Ah, spring in St. Louis. Pollen floats, rain gushes, sinkholes open and the St.
What child, having once heard the gruff bassoons barking out the melody of In the Hall of the Mountain King from Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite, could ever forget the menacing march of the troll ...
Welcome back, Festival favorite Olga Kern! Fresh off a celebration of Rachmaninoff’s 150th anniversary, Kern performs his Second Piano Concerto — a success from its inception, this memorable ...
Join CPR Classical on July 18 and 19 at Chautauqua Auditorium in Boulder for the Colorado Music Festival’s performance of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto #2 and a special narrated version of Edvard ...
The upcoming production of Peer Gynt is more than just a reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s epic. Adapted by British playwright Brad Birch, directed by Chris Gatt and starring Joseph Zammit alongside an ...
Periodically, it's a good thing for an organization like the San Francisco Symphony to try something daring and different, something off the path of its usual offerings. If nothing else, this serves ...
Classical music lovers, as well as some fans of animation and video games, may know Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg’s famous "Peer Gynt," but they certainly do not know it in the innovative, yet ...
There is no way in hell to stage "Peer Gynt" in a way that would make Ibsen's monumental epic drama accessible to anyone who didn't grow up on the fabulous legend of this Norwegian folk hero. But ...