Photograph from the first performance of The Nutcracker in 1892 at Mariinsky Theater. On the next Houston Symphony Broadcast, former Music Director Hans Graf leads a program of ballet music by some of ...

To effectively perform a piece of choreography, a dancer needs to master not only its physical aspects but also its musicality. Yet choreographers often differ in how they work with music, so an ...

The process of selecting the music for a ballet can be quite complex, and to a ballet-challenged person like me, confusing. Many times the music to a ballet wasn’t written for that particular ballet.

RZA is almost inseparable from the legacy of the Wu-Tang Clan hip-hop collective he helped form in 1992, putting his stamp on the genre through his unique way of mixing soul samples. These days, ...

Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet has been a favorite of Russian audiences ever since it was premiered at Leningrad’s Kirov Theater in 1940. It has plenty of pageantry, a familiar, heart-wrenching ...