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The composer, conductor, former Temple Emanu-El music director, and longtime teacher also has lessons for us about the importance of creativity to a well-enjoyed life.
Umberto's Mahler offered a triumphant Mahler 7, conducted by Clerici, to open the 2024 Maestro Series from the Queensland Symphony Orchestra.
After 20 years, Walt Disney Concert Hall has changed Los Angeles and its philharmonic orchestra, but we now have to live up to Frank Gehry's full, original vision.
Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was born in Russia in 1873 and died in the United States in 1943. Composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, he was another of those gifts the great tyrants of Europe—Vladimir Lenin, Adolf Hitler—bestowed on America. An aristocrat, an artist, a man of spiritual depth, Rachmaninoff was in every way a man of the kind that the Russian revolution wished to snuff out. Sensing this early in the revolution, he fled at the first possible moment.
Gerd Schaller on the immediacy and philosophical nature of the composer’s first numbered symphony