The University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra held its end-of-year performance on Sunday in The Clarice Smith Performing Arts ...

Audience members at the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony late last month were surprised by an abrupt noise in the middle of the second movement. After one ...

As temperatures descend, something inevitable is in the air. The time of year has arrived for productions of "The Nutcracker" to proliferate around the globe. Prepare for an onslaught of rising ...

Throughout his life, Tchaikovsky wrote several famous concerti, including one for the violin and three for the piano. As his career developed, he had promised to write a cello concerto. During this ...

On Thursday, the Halycon Music Festival opens its second season with a concert including Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s 1892 string sextet “Souvenir de Florence.” The piece cost Tchaikovsky six years of ...

In light of Russia's invasion into Ukraine, many westerners are understandably doing their level best to distance themselves from President Vladimir Putin and those loyal to him. But some of those ...

Dr. Richard Kogan in the CPR Performance Studio, September 2013. Kogan points to numerous passages in Tchaikovsky’s music that reflect the composer's sadness and longing. “His music was not music that ...

If there’s a single moment in ballet that everyone knows, it’s when the swans glide magically on to the stage in Act II of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. It’s been imitated and parodied a thousand times ...

An opera by Tchaikovsky? It must be about Fate, with a capital F. Duels in the frosty dawn, blood on the snow. A fragile, innocent heroine, doomed love, incipient madness. Tchaikovsky: the ultimate ...