Robert Schumann thought of his fourth symphony as a symphonic fantasy, not a classical symphony. He wanted all four movements to be performed without pauses to focus on the work as a whole — and to ...

One "n" or two, that's the question. The menu for Saturday's Springfield Symphony Orchestra includes a Schumann sandwich, with a twist. That twist involves two composers whose surnames differ only by ...

William Schuman, a towering figure among American symphonists and a protean force on music in America, died Saturday in New York following hip surgery. He was 81. ”Bill was a great presence on our ...

The Chronicle reported details of the San Francisco Symphony's 2006-2007 season Thursday. Today The Chronicle runs the full schedule, which also can be found on SFGate.com. All events are in Davies ...

What a concert program looks like on paper, and what it sounds like in a performance, can be two very different things. Saturday evening’s Milwaukee’s Symphony performance of three disparate pieces by ...

For his first concert with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since the ensemble’s recent Asia tour, music director Riccardo Muti sent a message. It came in the form of two monumental works, each ...

On March 23, 1944, the Italian resistance set off a bomb near a line of police marching in Nazi-occupied Rome. Thirty-three officers were killed, prompting German authorities to order 10 Italians ...

The contest, held by a musicians’ committee “to aid Spanish democracy,” was over. The prize had gone to a young, unknown composer, William Schuman, for his Second Symphony. But the promised ...

During William Schuman’s lifetime (1910-1992), his Third Symphony often was mentioned along with with the Thirds by Roy Harris and Aaron Copland as a possible candidate for the Great American Symphony ...