The composer had grand hopes that “The Maid of Orleans,” with its battle scenes, rousing choruses and fiery finale, would be the making of him. It didn’t work out that way.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is often coined as the first Russian composer to make a lasting impression internationally with his music. His music is remembered for being joyful, energetic, and uplifting; ...

Right on the heels of the holiday season, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley is staging a one-man show about the composer of “The Nutcracker Suite.” “Our Great Tchaikovsky” is the third show in Hershey ...

If Pandora and Spotify existed in the time of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, what might be on his playlists? That’s the musical question conductor David Alan Miller is exploring with Sarasota Orchestra’s ...

A composer’s sexual orientation should rarely, if ever, enter into our estimation of him or his music, especially if he’s a world-renowned figure from classical music. But when those tendencies shape ...

Pyotr Tchaikovsky, whose "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies" in the "Nutcracker" ballet delights children and adults alike at this time of year, wrote his later works at a table in his last residence in ...

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Trostyanets is a city in the north-east of Ukraine, which once played host to Russian composer, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Aged 24, the famed 19th-century Romantic composer stayed in a villa in the ...

Drake and Tchaikovsky, the 19th century Russian composer, may not sound like an instinctual match. But for Steve Hackman — a Los Angeles-based composer, conductor, and producer — the two artists both ...

Hershey Felder has made a career out of dramatizing the lives of famous composers. He dresses like them, plays their greatest works live on piano, and he brings out the real-life human stories behind ...