The highlight of the event is a world premiere that music director Alexander Platt has been eager to present. "We have a ...

The evening allowed Trifonov to deepen his interpretation of Brahms’ piece, which followed Prokofiev’s Seventh Symphony.

The Johnstown Symphony Orchestra (JSO) will open its 97th season on Oct. 25 with America @ 250 Part I & Brahms 3. The concert ...

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) was a German composer and pianist who is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. He wrote a wide range of music, including symphonies, ...

I recently read Simon Callow’s excellent biography of Richard Wagner. Now, to be fair, I’m reading a biography of Johannes Brahms by Jan Swafford. As in music, in biography these two are opposed. We ...

They shared the same birthday —May 7 — but that was about all. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Johannes Brahms simply understood, felt and composed music very differently, and judged each other’s work ...

Ranking amongst the famous composers in the history of western music, Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) is no doubt one of the major representatives of the Romantic style, which features most prominently in ...

This classic progressive rock band brought back memories with two shows recently at the Keswick Theatre in Glenside.

My mother, the mineralogist Daphne Ross, died on February 24th, at the age of ninety-one, of complications from Parkinson’s disease. It was late evening in Los Angeles when my brother called with the ...

Johannes Brahms’s father was an impecunious double-bass player, eventually good enough for the Hamburg Philharmonic. At the age of six he was discovered to have perfect pitch and a natural talent for ...

Some years ago, I was stopped at a traffic light and heard Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 1 on the radio. It dawned on me (after many times listening and playing it in orchestras on the violin) that ...