Maestro Kevin Rhodes and the Springfield Symphony Orchestra have plotted a devil of a good time for concertgoers on opening night of the SSO’s 66th season on Saturday at Symphony Hall. Franz Liszt's ...

The audience was puzzled at intermission in a program centered on The Faust Symphony by Franz Liszt given by the Hartford Symphony Orchestra as the orchestra continued its 2016-2017 Masterworks Series ...

You feel you know Faust? Not so fast. The immortal legend of eternal damnation has taken many forms, including plays, operas and musicals. It’ll take a new one March 10 to 12 at Hartford Symphony ...

It did seem an odd way to start a symphony season. The all-American first half — William Schuman’s flashy American Festival Overture and Aaron Copland’s sublime Clarinet Concerto — fine. But then 70 ...

Opera? Cantata? “Opéra de concert”? One of the defining Romantic composers of the 19th century, Hector Berlioz gave “Damnation of Faust” audiences a work that even today defies categorization. Not ...

Franz Liszt's title pretty much sums it up: "A Faust Symphony in Three Character Sketches after Goethe: Faust, Gretchen, Mephistopheles." Rather than retelling the story of Goethe’s tale of Faust - ...

"The problem with playing Liszt," conductor Roger Norrington said before leading the San Francisco Symphony in an all-Liszt concert Thursday night, "is that everything he wrote is either very big or ...

He repaid their good faith last night in a real stunner of a London debut programme featuring two very different challenges to his long-phrasing vision and the most dramatic new violin concerto I've ...

HARTFORD >> Lust, power and greed – how far would you go to get what you want? Find out when the Hartford Symphony Orchestra presents A Faust Symphony Friday, March 10 through Sunday, March 12 in the ...