symphony

The show at the American Folk Art Museum, curated by Emelie Gevalt and Caroline Culp, opens with a symphony in softness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

If Maradona had been about individual virtuosity, this was a collective symphony.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

At a recent performance of his Valiant symphony in Chennai, he explained how he wove Schubert's Unfinished Symphony into Idhayam Pogudhey, a song from the 1979 Tamil film Puthiya Vaarpukkal.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

Military campaigns planned for months reached a crescendo in a symphony of mouse clicks as rockets were fired for hours at a time.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026

The symphony was performed repeatedly in Allied countries in the months that followed.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

The National Symphony commissioned symphonies from Roy Harris and William Schuman as well as Alan Hovhaness’ “Ode to Freedom,” a lovely short violin concerto written for Yehudi Menuhin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

Across several studies, participants who listened to specific excerpts from symphonies by Liszt or Mahler imagined similar narratives in the music—storms, pirates and shipwrecks, in one case.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

A box set of Beethoven’s nine symphonies is, though not indispensable—there are hundreds of recorded cycles already—evidence that his orchestra is among the world’s top ensembles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

Two full symphonies in his “Mahler Grooves” festival, unlike his unprecedented full nine-symphony Mahler festival in 2012.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2025

The essence of that originality was to take what composers normally did in symphonies - long, abstract, streams of ‘pure’ instrumental music - and turn it into a sung drama on stage.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall