James Lee III studied at the University of Michigan, where his teachers included Michael Daugherty, William Bolcom and Bright Sheng. After completing his doctoral studies in 2005, Lee joined the faculty of Morgan State University in Baltimore, a historically Black college with an exceptional musi...

Following the disastrous premiere of his First Symphony in 1897, Rachmaninoff barely composed for three years. He finally sought help from the psychiatrist Nikolai Dahl in 1900, and after months of hypnotherapy he regained his confidence. Rachmaninoff started sketching the Second Piano Concerto t...

Sergei Prokofiev abandoned his homeland and his burgeoning career when he fled Russia in the wake of the October Revolution of 1917. After unsatisfying stints in the United States and France, he made the momentous decision in 1936 to resettle permanently in Moscow, and a major factor in that move...

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Gustav Mahler—who said “a symphony must be like the world—it must contain everything”—created a vast panorama of life’s deepest emotions in his Sixth Symphony. Nicknamed the “Tragic,” it unflinchingly e...

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Romance is in the air! Artistic Director Stéphane Denève returns for an emotional concert that explores true love and poetry. Inspired by Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers, Serg...