This week would have been the 128th birthday of one of Russian’s most famous composers, Modest Mussorgsky. Some of you might know him as the composer of Pictures at an Exhibition, but all of you know ...

Violinist Julian Rhee, the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra’s second “Artist of Distinction” for its 2025-26 season, solos in Benjamin Britten’s “Violin Concerto” with the orchestra and conductor Geoffrey ...

Most have heard the famous opening of Mussorgsky/Ravel’s “Pictures at an Exhibition,” with its regal brass chorale used in films, TV, video games, and even as WWE entrance music. This year, we mark ...

When Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky died in 1881, his 1867 orchestral composition NIGHT ON BALD MOUNTAIN (completed in 1867) had not been published. It became much better known when it was used in ...

Modest Mussorgsky was a composer close composerA person who writes music. from Russia. He was born in 1839 and died in 1881. One of his most famous pieces is called 'Pictures at an Art Exhibition'. It ...

Do lords or mobs shape the lives of nations? Modest Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, which compresses seven gruesome years of Russian history into four and a half glorious hours, abounds with both. The ...