“For hours after Jean-Philippe Collard had left Camille Saint-Saëns’ Fifth Piano Concerto a pile of shards on the Hollywood Bowl stage,” Alan Rich wrote in L.A. Weekly in the summer of 1999, “I racked ...

In the French Military March, composer Camille Saint-Saens paints a picture of a French colonial outpost in North Africa. We'll hear it played by the Philadelphia Orchestra, with Eugene Ormandy ...