On Jan. 10, the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra delivered another in the ever-popular “Beethoven and Blue Jeans” series. A creation of Music Director Peter Rubardt, the January concerts bring brilliance ...
In a typical Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concert, principal trombonist Megumi Kanda is in the back with the other brass players. But in Tan Dun's "Three Muses in Video Game," the trombone is the hero ...
The first three notes of the concerto ring out, and it's clear that Matthew Watt knows his way around a trombone. The 20-year-old Augustana University student has a clear tone, and when the tempo ...
A trombone concerto is a sufficiently rare bird that each new sighting is something of an event. Thrill-seekers and trombonists turned out in San Rafael's Veterans Memorial Auditorium on Tuesday night ...
The Reading Symphony Orchestra will feature one of its own Saturday at 8 p.m., when principal trombonist Bradley Ward performs Nino Rota’s Trombone Concerto. Music director Andrew Constantine will ...
Towards the front of the rehearsal hall, the symphony is a sea of violins and violas. But the bows are as still as frozen water. Instead, an unlikely solo instrument from the back row has taken center ...
Then came a stroke of luck. Free got into conversation with an American pianist, who was over recording the Gershwin concerto with the RSNO and was an ardent enthusiast of Shilkret's music. "He ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The jazz composer wrote a new concerto for the New York Philharmonic’s principal trombonist, Joseph Alessi, but died before its U.S.