Overture Center for the Arts in Madison, Wisconsin will welcome Emmy, Grammy, and six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald ...

The movie overture—music set against a blank screen or still images before the drama unfolds—all but disappeared from film sometime in the 1970s. Once a Hollywood mainstay, overtures evolved naturally ...

Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music,” said Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Music provides solace and ...

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From the Marriage of Figaro to Carmen, here are ten of the most memorable musical beginnings to operas. The lights in the theatre dim and a hush falls over the buzzing excitement of the audience, as ...

Ken Gibson can tell you that it’s a little eerie to hear the “William Tell” overture float through your bedroom window at 2 in the morning. He first thought the noise was a neighbor playing a ...

The show, which will hit the Overture Center Nov. 11-16, will feature Sun Prairie High School grad Jamal Stone.

A youth orchestra in the Kyiv region composes a symphonic poem, re-creating the sound of wartime nights in Ukraine.

Some ensembles have decided not to perform Tchaikovsky’s overture, written as commemoration of Russia’s defeat of Napoleon’s army. By Javier C. Hernández With its earsplitting rounds of cannon fire ...

Simultaneously last week in Boston and in Philadelphia batons flicked into the air, releasing the music that marked the overture to the 1936-37 season. In Boston, Beacon Hillers, not content merely to ...

correctionAn earlier version of this article misstated the title of a new work by Philip Glass. It is “Overture for 2012,” not “Overture for 1812.” This version has been corrected. When you’re ...

Acclaimed German violinist Isabelle Faust and early music group Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin, under the direction of ...