Hear two selections from 'Scheherazade' conducted by Marin Alsop's mentor, Leonard Bernstein (leading the New York Philharmonic in 1959). For centuries, composers have tried to spin tales in music. My ...

The composer's early life as a sailor informed his evocative music for Sinbad and other tales from the Arabian Nights. I want to tell you a story…but there’s more to this tale than words! It’s a story ...

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five. New York's Musical Courier was not so far from the mark when it reported in 1897: ...

Though they are a poor substitute for the all too rare performances (in the west at least) of the operas themselves, the orchestral suites that Rimsky-Korsakov often extracted from his stage works ...

2 Esa-Pekka Salonen to Lead Scriabin's PROMETHEUS, POEM OF FIRE with LA Phil As the New York Times observes, since its inception nearly three decades ago, "the Bard Music Festival has managed more ...

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A retrospective of the works of Feodor Konstantin Rimsky, a Russian artist who studied in Germany during World War I and became a student street fighter who protested the German Communist uprising, ...

Rimsky-Korsakov's Christmas Eve, based on a short story by Gogol, centres on the love of the blacksmith Vakula for the rich farmer's daughter Oksana, who mockingly requires him to obtain for her the ...

When people rhapsodize about Weird Old Portland, what they're talking about are places like Rimsky-Korsakoffee House. The 40-year-old cafe, built inside an old Craftsman home in the Buckman ...

Despite the meagre amount of his music heard regularly today, Rimsky-Korsakov’s place in Russian music cannot be overstated. Compared with the music of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov, a meagre amount of ...