The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s music director designate led the orchestra in music of heroes last week and offered an ...

Composer Jean Sibelius is a hero to all Finns, most Englishmen and many Americans. His music is heavy enough to sound profound—something like the work of a rural and obstinate Brahms. It seemed ...

The Kansas City Symphony shines in performances of music by César Franck, Zoltán Koldály and Jean Sibelius. We'll hear Franck's Symphony in D minor, Koldály's "Concerto for Orchestra," and the ...

Learning to read Finnish in school enabled Jean Sibelius to appreciate the great Finnish epic known as the Kalevala. The stories stayed with him from his youth, and as an adult he wrote a set of four ...

On April 15, 2025, at 7:30 PM, New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall will host the U.S. premiere of Jean Sibelius' The Maiden in the Tower. This landmark event, part of NEC's prestigious Faculty ...

ON December 8, 1940, Jean Sibelius completed three quarters of a century. A small nation, but one vividly conscious of its racial antiquity, still close to the soil and possessing an authentic ...

As the orchestra searches for a new music director, Susanna Mälkki was given the distinction of leading it at Carnegie Hall. By Zachary Woolfe Alec Baldwin chooses Tchaikovsky. Darryl Pinckney picks ...

Beyond the challenging works themselves, the program proved notable in other respects. Theodore Thomas and the CSO gave the U.S. premieres of Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben in 1900 as well as the ...

We're in Bucharest for a concert performance by the Romanian Symphony Orchestra. Finnish conductor Leif Segerstam leads the orchestra in unofficial national anthem of Finland, "Finlandia" by Jean ...