Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche celebrates a legendary prankster from fourteenth century Germany written by Richard Strauss.

Don Juan is a tone poem – a story told in music – for large orchestra written by the German composer Richard Strauss in 1888 when he was 24.

Edvard Grieg was born in Bergen, Norway.  He completed his only concerto for piano in 1868 at just 25 years old! 

Florence Price’s tone poem for orchestra, The Oak, is a deliciously dark and thoughtful expression.

Jessie Montgomery (1981- ) began sketching ideas for Strum as a string quintet in 2006 and revised it for string orchestra in 2012.

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004) was an American composer, conductor, and multi-instrumentalist who operated across multiple genres.

Sergei Rachmaninoff wrote Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini in Switzerland in 1934 and premiered it himself at the piano!

It’s hard to imagine a more generally well known composer or piece of classical music than Ludwig van Beethoven and his Symphony No. 5.

Dmitri Shostakovich is one of the most influential and revered composers of the 20th century, and his Symphony No. 5 holds a similar place o

Tchaikovsky’s sudden death at the age of 53 just 9 days after the premiere of his Symphony No. 6 is surrounded in controversy to this day!