The timpani are among a symphony orchestra’s most exciting instruments. There’s nothing quite like a musician pounding away on wide kettledrums made from copper. But aside from the occasional dramatic ...

Ustvolskaya: Concerto for Piano, String Orchestra and Timpani; Octet for 2 Oboes, 4 Violins, Timpani and Piano; Piano Sonata No. 3; Grand Duet for Violoncello and Piano Pavel Serebryakov, M.

Our Classical Pick of the Week is tonight with the Pasadena Symphony and special guest and timpani rockstar, Jonathan Haas, playing American composer Philip Glass' "Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists ...

Who could have written the first work on this disc, a symphony that was completed the day before the composer’s 23rd birthday in 1906? It sounds like the work of a Russian who had come under the spell ...

The Hope College Orchestra will perform with the student winners of the college’s annual Concerto-Aria Competition on Friday, Feb. 21, at 7 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the Jack H. Miller Center for ...