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The Valkyries would seem to have it all. In most productions of recent years the legendary warrior sisters of Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungs cycle…

American composer Howard Hanson will be featured this evening on Symphony @ 7. His Symphony No. 1 is titled The Nordic, indicating the connection with…

David Danzmayr leads ProMusica Chamber Orchestra in two performances of Mozart's Great Mass in C minor this weekend. ProMusica welcomes the Lancaster…

Over the last couple of podcasts, I have been chatting with ProMusica Chamber Orchestra Music Director David Danzmayr about the role of the concertmaster…

When it comes to Charles Ives' music, there seems to be no middle ground - you either love it or hate it. Â If you are mathematically inclined, you may…

During my ongoing conversation with new ProMusica Chamber Orchestra Music Director David Danzmayr and Executive Director Janet Chen, the discussion turned…

Thomas Linley and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart were both born in 1756. They led similar lives, but their fates could not have been more different. Like…

Though much has been written about Mozart's father, Leopold, Mozart's mother has received far less press. Anna Maria Pertl came from a poor family near…

Mexican composer Manuel Ponce wrote his Concierto del sur, Concerto of the South, for Andres Segovia, who commissioned the work in 1941. Â Native Mexican…

There are some great beginnings in music, classical and otherwise. Recently, listeners of BBC Radio 2 voted the beginning of Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta…