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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed his Fourth Symphony, the Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36, between 1877 and 1878, dedicated to his patroness and 'best friend' Nadezhda von Meck. Following his ...

The combination of Ravel and Tchaikovsky on the same program is a luxurious feast for any classical music lover. The Seattle Symphony treated a fervent Benaroya Hall audience to these delights on Sat.

“Where words fail, music speaks,” said Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. New Philharmonic, the only professional orchestra based in DuPage County, presents concerts featuring works tied together ...

This weekend’s Houston Symphony concerts in Jones Hall feature guest conductor Andrey Boreyko leading the orchestra in performances of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, Wagner’s Overture to The Flying ...

Super Bowl Sunday was one of the greatest comeback performances in history. After a shaky start the team came together and finished like the champions they are. I speak not of the selfish and immature ...

Urgent, supercharged and violent in places, Tchaikovsky's Fourth is said to reflect the turmoil he found himself in while composing the work. In the face of a disastrous marriage, struggles with his ...

Mar 3, 2024 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Add to Calendar 03-03-2024 14:00 03-03-2024 16:00 America/Toronto VAM Symphony Orchestra: Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.4 Embark on a captivating musical odyssey with the ...

Composer James Lee III's Ichabod! The Protest Is Over is inspired in part by the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation sparked by Martin Luther. Ichabod was a false prophet in the Old ...

Violinist Vilde Frang returns in triumph after mesmerizing TSO audiences in 2013. This time she interprets the opulent, heart-on-sleeve concerto by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The widely respected ...

As a symphonist, Tchaikovsky enriched the repertoire and exerted a vital influence on later composers as diverse as Sibelius, Prokofiev and Shostakovich. Of his first three symphonies, the second ...

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