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 ...

After a somewhat low-key — pun intended — beginning on Friday night, the San Diego Symphony launched its monthlong “Upright & Grand” piano festival into powerhouse territory Saturday evening with a ...

The Kentucky Symphony Orchestra projects the art which influenced composers Andrew Strawn, Michael Daugherty and Modest ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jukka-Pekka Saraste (YOO-kah PEK-kah SAH-rah-steh) conducts the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in "The Old Castle," from "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Modest Mussorgsky (moh-DEHST MOO-sork-skee).

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 ...

Modest Mussorgsky wrote Pictures at an Exhibition as a memorial to his late friend, the painter Viktor Hartmann, in 1874. Still reeling from Hartmann’s death the year before, the Russian composer ...

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 ...

Olga Kern, a pianist steeped in the Russian tradition, performs two pieces by Sergei Rachmaninoff from his Op. 3 collection of "Morceaux Fantaisie," or fantasy pieces: "Melodie" and "Serenade." Then ...