The symphony invited English conductor Nicholas Collon and long-time SFS soloist Conrad Tao in performances of Adés’s ...

Then came a series of crises. Late in 1874 he finished his Piano Concerto No 1 and played it through to Nikolai Rubinstein, to whom he had dedicated it. Rubinstein denounced it as ugly and unplayable.

It was not until the First Piano Concerto, completed in 1875, that Tchaikovsky produced a work of mature genius. It would ...

The “Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with Lun Li” will take place at the Collins Center for the Arts in Orono on Sunday at 3 p.m.