Catonsville resident Rosanna Tufts had the most proper, most elite of musical educations, but deep in her soul, she yearned for more earthy entertainments. So Tufts threw off the bonds of her ...

After 25 years devoted to music of the 18th and early 19th centuries, Nicholas McGegan and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra took a fascinating step into the present over the weekend with the world ...

Ballet theatre attracted Igor Stravinsky throughout his life and he strove unceasingly to find new forms. The melodrama for narrator, solo tenor, chorus and dancers, dating from the composer’s ...

Igor Stravinsky famously felt that “music expresses itself” — essentially, that understanding a given piece of music requires little beyond what we hear when it’s played. Which may explain why the ...