It was grand night in Vienna, or rather a grand Saturday afternoon at Strathmore Music Center in Bethesda which successfully ...

Vienna, one of the European musical capitals of the 18th to 20th centuries, was the home for some of the most important composers in history. At the heart of the First Viennese School of composition ...

Grab your pencils, notebooks, and binders and head back to school with Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Ernst Krenek, and Alban Berg. As the academic year begins, Music in the Making returns to the ...

The turn of the year is a time not only for champagne but for the fizz of operetta, with productions of Johann Strauss' "Die Fledermaus" and Lehar's "The Merry Widow" a seasonal tradition. A new disc ...

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 10: Atmosphere at The 68th Viennese Opera Ball, A Night Inspired By 'Aida' at The Plaza on May 10, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Patrick McMullan/Patrick McMullan via Getty ...

Peter Rauhofer was raised in the angular and restricted channels of the Viennese music scene. But alas, deviancy would come in the form of the progressive Radio Luxembourg and young Rauhofer’s ...

For most people, the mere mention of a Viennese operetta conjures up a waltz of post-Johann Strauss composers—Franz Lehar (The Merry Widow), Oskar Straus (The Chocolate Soldier), Emmerich Kalman ...

During a performance some years ago of Anton Webern’s String Trio, the cellist of the London Philharmonic Trio rose abruptly and stalked off stage with the words: “I can’t play this thing.” Few would ...