The Mozart Oboe Concerto begins normally enough. The orchestra introduces two themes, one jaunty, one questioning. But then something odd happens. “The oboist enters with this crazy scale up to a high ...

Last month, Erin Hannigan was preparing for her last two performances as Dallas Symphony’s principal oboist before joining the faculty at the prestigious Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in ...

The Cascade Symphony Orchestra (CSO) concludes its 2025-26 season at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, May 4 when it presents From Mozart ...

Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Orchestra of the 18th Century Frank de Bruine, Oboe Kenneth Montgomery, Conductor Quartet for Oboe, Violin, Viola and Cello Wolfgang ...

There are as many misconceptions about the classical music world among audiences as there are viola jokes among musicians. Everybody thinks the classical music world is a sacred temple, a rarefied ...

Mozart’s operas represent a roll-call of favourite characters and timeless music, blending the comic with the serious, and the historical with the contemporary. In the duet "Là ci darem la mano" we ...

Opera Saratoga has made good use of its new home at Universal Preservation Hall in Saratoga Springs. In programming her first season as general and artistic director of Opera Saratoga, Mary Birnbaum ...

Sonata for Keyboard and Violin No. 32 Olivier Stankiewicz, Oboe Jonathan Ware, Piano Sonata for Keyboard and Violin No. 21 Olivier Stankiewicz, Oboe Jonathan Ware, Piano Sonata for Keyboard and Violin ...