Sometimes, a melody is worth 1,000 words — or, in the case of a theater review, about 800. To really get a feel for the tone of “Rachmaninoff and the Tsar,” the latest addition to Hershey Felder’s ...

Hershey Felder’s critically acclaimed series of composer plays has been a goldmine for Theatreworks Silicon Valley since their inception back in 1998 with George Gershwin Alone. Since then, he’s ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Steven Fox and the Clarion Choir are tending to a less well-known part of the composer’s canon for his 150th birthday: His choral works. By James R.

Sergei Rachmaninoff is remembered for his rich, sweeping and often complex melodies that evoke the sounds and sights of his native Russia. But what most people don’t know about the famed composer is ...

Sergei Rachmaninoff thought his original piano sonata was too long—so in 1931, he revised it. The result is a streamlined version that still delivers all the intensity of the original. Tonight, hear ...

We hear Clara Schumann performed on clarinet, a ferocious performance of Rachmaninoff, and a moving new cello work inspired by the pandemic. We also meet an 18-year-old who loves the euphonium so much ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Inon Barnatan has created a solo transcription of “Symphonic Dances” in which he tries “not to imitate an orchestra, but to embody it.” By Joshua ...

Later this month, theater actor-pianist-playwright Hershey Felder will return to San Diego’s Balboa Theatre to premiere his 12th play inspired by a composer — “Rachmaninoff and the Tsar.” Besides the ...

Sergei Rachmaninoff gave his last performance in Knoxville in February 1943. He died several weeks later. Sculptor Victor Bokarov paid homage to Rachmaninoff's last performance with a statue, but it ...

Stages is bringing one of classical music’s most beloved composers back from beyond the grave in “Rachmaninoff and the Tsar,” a portrayal of Sergei Rachmaninoff during his final days as he recalls, ...

When the composer Sergei Rachmaninoff left Russia with his wife and two daughters at the end of 1917, he left behind all his works except the recently revised Piano Concerto No. 1 and the vocal score ...