As the year winds down, the Yakima Symphony Orchestra is only just getting warmed up. More than half of the 2025–2026 Let’s Dance season still lies ahead. Each concert this season includes a work by ...

The late 19th century “War of the Romantics” pitted “absolute music,” like that of Brahms that was about nothing but itself, against “programmatic music” like that of Wagner that supported a narrative ...

Musical storytelling is on my mind this month as the London Philharmonic Orchestra performs Liquid Interface, my first large-scale exploration of musical narrative in the form of a “water symphony”.

The great outdoors has always been a muse for artists, writers and musicians alike. From birdsong at dawn to the drama of a thunderstorm, nature offers endless rhythms, melodies and moods. The Yakima ...