Anyone hearing that the San Antonio Symphony Strauss Festival concert Friday night revolved around waltz music might have expected to hear pieces by Johann Strauss II of the 1800s. Nope. “Blue Danube” ...

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Jun Märkl draws a lush "Daphnis et Chloé" as the San Francisco Symphony shines, while violinist Leonidas Kavakos' Bartók proves uneven.

It’s time to grab your dancing shoes–on this week’s episode, we’re learning about the waltz, with music by Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, and Ravel. The waltz, a ballroom dance in 3/4 meter, evolved from ...

The Lancaster Symphony Orchestra will take up a waltz tempo this weekend to complete its 60th season. This triple-meter extravaganza features works by a triple threat of great composers who lived in ...

Ravel admired the work of Schubert, so much so that he wrote his own set of waltzes and gave it the same name as a set by Schubert: the Noble and Sentimental Waltzes. These eight little dances, which ...

Mischa Santora became a conductor after an injury forced him to give up the violin for a while. "I decided to pick up conducting ... Twenty years later, I'm still doing it," he said in a recent phone ...