If the symphony orchestra survives, it will be because a few forward-looking outfits like the Los Angeles Philharmonic will have shown the way. Under Esa-Pekka Salonen, its Finnish but rapidly ...

Classical music seems too polite to harbour “damned souls”, those manically hard-drinking, self-destructive types who create a few works of genius in a frenzy and die young. In fact there have been ...

Explore how Silvestre Revueltas’ 'Sensemayá' — which will be performed by the UMKC Conservatory Wind Symphony on April 26 — reflects the dynamic political and artistic landscape in which it was ...

Silvestre Revueltas’“Sensemayá” is a good place to start. This six-minute orchestral masterpiece by the great Mexican composer, who lived from 1899 to 1940, plays into certain expectations that we ...

Pianist Dave Gleason is the band’s leader, as well as someone who’s actually living his education: He studied the folk and popular music forms of Puerto Rico and Cuba while working on his M.A. in ...

Truth to tell, holding your drop party at A Place For Jazz is a pretty gutsy move. The crowds that attend the annual series contain some of the best-educated jazz fans in the region, and you have the ...