Music

The Chicago Sinfonietta Music Director looks forward to playing "the biggest instrument in the room" for one of her favorite programs: orchestral works by Florence Price, Michael Abels, and Antonín Dvořák.

Claude Debussy was a great composer, but like many other famous composers, he was also a wonderful writer.

The third Chamber Music Series program from the 2023 Spoleto Festival USA features works from Charles Koechlin and Stephen Prutsman.

Everyone makes progress at his or her own pace, and what’s crucial is where you eventually arrive, not how fast you get there.

The second Chamber Music Series program from the 2023 Spoleto Festival USA features works from Stephen Prutsman, Benjamin Britten, Eleanor Alberga, and Ralph Vaughn Williams.

Soprano Nicole Heaston shares insights into the musically and psychologically intense title role she's singing in Charleston through June 10th.

Some years ago I had the privilege of appearing as viola soloist with the United States Marine Band, “the Presidents Own,” and I can tell you it was a great experience. Like the members of the other premier service bands, the bands of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard, the Marine Band players are graduates of some of the nation’s top conservatories, and they’re terrific musicians.

The first Chamber Music Series program from the 2023 Spoleto Festival USA features works from C.P.E. Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Osvaldo Golijov, and a special remembrance of late Chamber Music Series Artistic Director Geoff Nuttall.

And what about those musicians—Beethoven being only the most famous of many—who can hear combinations of pitches in their heads—chords, harmonies—and can invent, just in their heads, sequences of harmonies that have never been heard before?

"There are two kinds of geniuses, the ‘ordinary’ and the ‘magicians.’"