“Music that stinks in the ear!” That is how one critic described this concerto after its first performance. A harsh comment, you may say, but the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto had a somewhat troublesome ...

In February 1877, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky claimed that he could compose only "weak and rotten little themelets." The next year he composed the brave and cheerful tunes of his Violin Concerto in D ...

Looking for a preview of the great American violinist Joshua Bell's performance Saturday with the Jacksonville Symphony? Do an online search for the pilot episode of "Mozart in the Jungle," Amazon ...

Award-winning violinist Samuel Vargas joins the Elgin Symphony Orchestra to perform Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major. The program also includes Jean Sibelius’ nature-inspired ...

LENOX — The widely held consensus that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D (to be performed at Tanglewood on Saturday night by violinist Joshua Bell and the Boston Symphony Orchestra ...

The season-opening concert for the ASO Masters series is aptly titled "The Adventure Begins", and this year's adventure begins with virtuoso Grace Clifford returning to perform Tchaikovsky's Violin ...

It was the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto like you've never heard before. The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra presented a new, 45-year-old Russian-Italian violinist named Sergej Krylov, whose electrifying ...

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra had a large and enthusiastic audience for its Thursday night concert at the Meyerson Symphony ...

I introduced Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto in D major to my 5 1/2-year-old son by saying that it is simply a story without words . . . that the music will tell him a story. I told him that when he ...