Russia never gets enough credit for its generosity, having donated so many of the best and brightest to the rest of the world for well over a century. Nabokov, Nureyev, Solzhenitsyn, countless ...

Hershey Felder’s critically acclaimed series of composer plays has been a goldmine for Theatreworks Silicon Valley since their inception back in 1998 with George Gershwin Alone. Since then, he’s ...

Sergei Rachmaninoff is remembered for his rich, sweeping and often complex melodies that evoke the sounds and sights of his native Russia. But what most people don’t know about the famed composer is ...

The pianist Arthur Rubinstein once found himself invited to dinner in Hollywood with the Rachmaninoffs and the Stravinskys. Russia’s greatest living composers had never met before, and conversation ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Inon Barnatan has created a solo transcription of “Symphonic Dances” in which he tries “not to imitate an orchestra, but to embody it.” By Joshua ...

We hear Clara Schumann performed on clarinet, a ferocious performance of Rachmaninoff, and a moving new cello work inspired by the pandemic. We also meet an 18-year-old who loves the euphonium so much ...

To the haunting, wordless, and ethereal sound of solo soprano accompanied by a caressing orchestra, Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise ushers us into a lush garden of birch trees bordered by flowers, two ...

Stages is bringing one of classical music’s most beloved composers back from beyond the grave in “Rachmaninoff and the Tsar,” a portrayal of Sergei Rachmaninoff during his final days as he recalls, ...

HFP LIVE and San Diego Theatres will present pianist/actor/playwright/producer Hershey Felder, for a strictly limited engagement of RACHMANINOFF AND THE TSAR, a new ...

Sometimes, a melody is worth 1,000 words — or, in the case of a theater review, about 800. To really get a feel for the tone of “Rachmaninoff and the Tsar,” the latest addition to Hershey Felder’s ...

When the composer Sergei Rachmaninoff left Russia with his wife and two daughters at the end of 1917, he left behind all his works except the recently revised Piano Concerto No. 1 and the vocal score ...