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 ...

Like what you heard at the symphony or want to hear what you missed? Music critic Larry Lapidus has compiled a list of essential recordings from last weekend’s program. • Modest Mussorgsky, “Night on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Boris Godunov is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881). The work was composed between 1868 and 1873 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is Mussorgsky's only completed opera and is considered his ...

If you were a teenager shopping for albums in late 1971, all you needed to know about Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s “Pictures at an Exhibition”—a rock interpretation of Modest Mussorgsky’s 1874 work of the ...