The New Grove Dictionary has nary a word to say about the composer and pianist Jacob Weinberg, who was born in Odessa, Ukraine, in 1879 and died (presumably in New York, although Neil W. Levin’s ...

The Concerto for String Orchestra (1948) is commonly regarded as Grażyna Bacewicz's opus magnum and even called her "Ninth Symphony". It is unquestionably one of the foremost works of 20th century ...

Vaughan Williams’s 1944 Concerto for oboe and strings is one of few such works to maintain a foothold in the repertoire. David Threasher listens to a selection of the available recordings Ralph ...

There are times when Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra sound as though they are intent on presenting a kind of smooth classics version of Bartók. Their approach to the Concerto for ...

They may have sensed, as well, that acoustical challenges are not the only difficulty rock-fusion works pose. Rock fans often hear the results as watered down, while classical listeners hear them as ...