Last week, we got the sad news that James Yannatos — an accomplished composer and the longtime conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra...

On October 25th, roughly two months before the movie is released in American theaters, John Williams' soundtrack for Steven Spielberg...

For some of the composers we've covered here, it is truly baffling that they aren't better known. These are the symphonists whose wo...

Unsung Symphonies is happy to welcome Louis Epstein , a Ph.D. candidate in musicology at Harvard University. Louis is writing a dissertatio...

Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) is one of those figures in music history with the misfortune of holding onto one style while living across t...

Today's Unsung Symphonies riddle: What looks like a piano concerto, smells like a piano concerto, and sounds like a piano concerto, but...

Although we've dealt with very few hardcore atonal works here at Unsung Symphonies so far, there does exist a (somewhat sporadic) threa...

For the last 180 years, it's been tough for symphony composers to get out from under Beethoven's shadow. We've dealt with lots...

There is to Jón Leifs' music a ruggedness, sometimes verging on brutality, impossible not to link with the scarred and hostile land the ...

Sad news to report -- Henryk  Górecki, the Polish composer whose Second Symphony  "Copernican" we've already written up, has ...