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Throwback Thursday: One Ring to Rule Them All—Richard Wagner’s ‘Das Rheingold’

By Anna Pulley “The music shall sound in such a fashion that people shall hear what they cannot see,” Richard Wagner wrote to Franz Liszt, describing Das Rhe... Read More...

Beethoven’s 7th Symphony Allegretto: Greatest. Music. Ever?

200 years after its debut, the transcendent Allegretto of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92, continues to captivate listeners. Why is the music world so hooked?

Adella Prentiss Hughs, founder of The Cleveland Orchestra. Photo by Trout Ware Studios

100 Years Ago, a Female Impresario & Forward-Thinking Conductor Succeeded in Cleveland Where Many Others Had Failed

By Brian Wise In February 1921, the Cleveland Orchestra made its New York debut at the Hippodrome, an enormous, Moorish-style venue on Sixth Avenue that hosted... Read More...

Béla Bartók, composer and ethnomusicologist, reviewing recordings of folk songs on a phonograph

How Béla Bartók Redefined Classical Music

Under the guise of complex art music, composer and ethnomusicologist Béla Bartók brought Hungarian peasant culture into the concert halls of Europe.

Principal Violist Cynthia Phelps Celebrates 25 Years with the NY Phil

By Laurence Vittes The New York Philharmonic may be going through a few changes—with Alan Gilbert’s planned departure, president Matthew VanBesien's unexpect... Read More...