Symphony San Jose will present HOPELESSLY ROMANTIC, a concert program featuring music by Schubert, Sibelius, and Schumann.

He works in mysterious ways.

Robert Schumann thought of his fourth symphony as a symphonic fantasy, not a classical symphony. He wanted all four movements to be performed without pauses to focus on the work as a whole — and to ...

One "n" or two, that's the question. The menu for Saturday's Springfield Symphony Orchestra includes a Schumann sandwich, with a twist. That twist involves two composers whose surnames differ only by ...

The Chronicle reported details of the San Francisco Symphony's 2006-2007 season Thursday. Today The Chronicle runs the full schedule, which also can be found on SFGate.com. All events are in Davies ...

On March 23, 1944, the Italian resistance set off a bomb near a line of police marching in Nazi-occupied Rome. Thirty-three officers were killed, prompting German authorities to order 10 Italians ...

During William Schuman’s lifetime (1910-1992), his Third Symphony often was mentioned along with with the Thirds by Roy Harris and Aaron Copland as a possible candidate for the Great American Symphony ...

For his first concert with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since the ensemble’s recent Asia tour, music director Riccardo Muti sent a message. It came in the form of two monumental works, each ...

The contest, held by a musicians’ committee “to aid Spanish democracy,” was over. The prize had gone to a young, unknown composer, William Schuman, for his Second Symphony. But the promised ...

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