Search results for

Music for multiple pianos and pianists

A piano icon remembered.

Modest Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov” is better known in its versions by Rimsky-Korsakov (1896 & 1908) and the final version (for now) by Dmitriy Shostakovich (1940), but this week’s version is that of the original piece finished by Mussorgsky in 1869 which is closest to the drama by Pushkin, contains recitatives, a few scenes that have been highly altered, and is performed in one act.

A Tempo this Saturday (9/3 at 7 pm) previews Opera Philadelphia's first-ever Opera in Film festival, part of this Fall's O22 Opera Festival.

We’re surveying musicals from 130 years of theatre history on this week’s Dress Circle (9/4 7:00 p.m.) beginning with a long-forgotten musical from 1891 entitled “Mavourneen” to Broadway’s most recent September opening (or reopening), “Waitress.”

AN eclectic playlist to launch the new season.

A Tempo this Saturday (9/10) features a conversation with the composer of San Juan Hill: A New York Story, which will be performed by the New York Philharmonic for the re-opening of David Geffen Hall after renovations designed to invite the community into its public and musical spaces.

Pianists deserving wider attention.