The Evening Concert

Also "A Shakespeare Scenario" by Walton, a famous 1st Piano Concerto and a New York Philharmonic premiere from November 2016.

"Who's the fairest (greatest) of all Hungarian composers?" Find out who the Chamber Music Society chose tonight at 7:00.

America's oldest orchestra celebrates 175 years of classical music performances with a program from the archives...

Round One of 'this' piano competition is heard tonight, with the subsequent round(s) to be heard next week.

Elgar's "Enigma" Variations is enigmatic as ever as Donald Runnicles leads the CSO in the famed work...

Dvorak's 7th SYmphony was premiered in Piccadilly [UK!} on April 22, 1885 with the composer conducting...Corigliano's "Red Violin" comes more than 100 years later, his original ideas from 1998, then the concert work from 2003.

Dvorak's 7th came about in the mid 1880s, while the Elgar "Enigma" Variations were compoed in the very next decade.

The musical content tonight is a string sextet, a cello sonata, a clarinet sonata, a few art songs and a mix of keyboard works.

Overture to "The Magic Flute"; Overture to "The Magic Harp"; Symphony No. 6 on the program tonight.

The Cooper International Competition is held annually and presents monetary prizes for violin performace and piano performance. Started in 1985, the competition gained it's [new] title (Cooper) in 2010 due to the generosity of the Coopers (Thomas and Evon).