Violinist Dmitry Sitkovetsky created a version of Bach's Goldberg Variations for solo violin and strings. We feature the theme, and Variation No. 17. This music by Bach opens a whole hour of music in ...

The Troy Savings Bank Music Hall has for years been a major recording venue, as well as a regular stop for major artists on their tours. We take you to Troy, New York, to hear violinist Joshua Bell ...

Time is an elastic concept in dance. Works that are made today can look dated quite fast; those created in the past can look to the future or back to tradition. George Balanchine’s Theme and ...

HIS theme is the development of an artist; his variations are the impact upon an artist by life. Suppose a sculptor, assistant to Phidias, who had worked on the frieze of the Parthenon and known the ...

The Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra will perform “Theme & Variations” at 2 p.m. Feb. 24 in El Campanil Theatre at 602 W. Second St. in Antioch. On Tap: Country singer Lacy Dalton to perform Feb. 10 in ...

The Concord Conservatory of Music will present the fourth and final concert and lecture in its spring 2015 series at 7 p.m. May 14 at 1317 Main St., Concord. The subject of the spring series has been ...