This week would have been the 128th birthday of one of Russian’s most famous composers, Modest Mussorgsky. Some of you might know him as the composer of Pictures at an Exhibition, but all of you know ...

I MUSICI DE MONTREAL On the program: Mussorgsky, "Pictures at an Exhibition"; Tchaikovsky, "Souvenir of Florence"; Borodin, "Nocturne." Yuli Turovsky, conductor. Presented by Birmingham Music Club.

(The headline as published has been corrected in this text.) The Chicago Symphony Orchestra began its “Beyond the Score” presentations at Orchestra Hall on Sunday with an hourlong analysis of one of ...

Inspired by Modest Mussorgsky's 1874 piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition, it's an original theater piece—with dance and live piano music—set in a museum, written by local playwright Melissa Leilani ...

The Vermont Symphony Orchestra is embracing the exotic when it opens its 2025-26 season next weekend in Burlington and Rutland, but it hasn’t forgotten to include a beloved “war horse.” “It all ...

Listening to Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition," Martinez artist Cathy Riggs painted a fiery "cymbal crash." Pinole artist Michael Resso painted a dog in a shadowy cave ...

A conversation with Hans Graf and Timothy McAllister about their upcoming concert with the Houston Symphony. McAllister continues with Graf's line by saying, "I feel that his music brings out the best ...

Modest Mussorgsky wrote Pictures at an Exhibition as a memorial to his late friend, the painter Viktor Hartmann, in 1874. Still reeling from Hartmann’s death the year before, the Russian composer ...

Olga Kern, a pianist steeped in the Russian tradition, performs two pieces by Sergei Rachmaninoff from his Op. 3 collection of "Morceaux Fantaisie," or fantasy pieces: "Melodie" and "Serenade." Then ...