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Could the Rite of Spring happen today?
While I am not advocating a riot, throwing a punch, or even booing, I do wonder if we are a bit TOO polite – not just when we don’t like something, but even when we DO.
Columbus Symphony Presents Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto
Alban Berg (1885-1935)
Get to know the Violin Concerto by Alban Berg, being performed this weekend by the Columbus Symphony and Vadim Gluzman, conducted by Jean-Marie Zeitouni
Columbus Becomes Mozart’s Home Town
Mozart this Sunday
This weekend, Opera Columbus presents Canada’s Opera Atelier in Mozart’s The Magic Flute at the Southern Theatre, and you can hear Mozart’s Requiem at King Avenue United Methodist Church.
We might be hard-wired to enjoy music’s intangibles
Musical endorphins?
Everyone enjoys a good meal, but why do we enjoy something as abstract as music?
Columbus’ Weekend of World Premieres
ProMusica Chamber Orchestra Conductor and Founding Music Director, Timothy Russell, takes his final bow Sunday night at the Southern Theatre after 34 amazing years.
Cow Town rules the arts again. Columbus saw two world premieres by world-class composers this past weekend, both written expressly for local ensembles.
Columbus Symphony Chorus: A Premiere and a Celebration
Ronald Jenkins, ready to conduct the Columbus Symphony Chorus for another 30 years.
The Columbus Symphony Orchestra and Chorus honor chorus conductor Ronald Jenkins this weekend with a new work, Of Songs and Singing by Stephen Paulus. Mr. Jenkins celebrates thirty years with the chorus with these concerts.
Good Friday and Easter specials on Classical 101
Listen to Classical 101 for Good Friday and Easter music from First Community Church.
Ronald J. Jenkins, Minister of Music and Liturgy at First Community Church, leads a diverse program of hymns in both traditional and new settings, along with sacred classics, including works by J.S. Bach and Johannes Brahms.
Columbus Symphony and a Faun in the Afternoon
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) sensualist divin
More about this weekend with the Columbus Symphony and Ballet Met: Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.
Columbus Symphony and Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring
Igor Stravinsky and Dancer/Choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky as Petrouchka, c. 1911
The Columbus Symphony and Ballet Met celebrate the 100th anniversary of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, this weekend in the Ohio Theater.
Columbus Symphony Broadcast This Sunday Featuring Tito Munoz
Tito Munoz: Tiger, dynamo, wizard
The Columbus Symphony broadcasts are hot every Sunday at 1 pm, but this week’s concert burns the place down.
