It’s a great injustice that French composer Camille Saint-Saëns is most widely remembered for a mere handful of his hundreds of works. Ironically, the evergreen “Carnival of the Animals,” among the ...

He was music’s Renaissance man, a former child prodigy whose genius extended beyond music to linguistics, literature and science. But Camille Saint-Saëns was a restless creative spirit whose constant ...

In February 2022, new to New York and seeking bleeding-edge culture, I found myself at a poetry reading at KGB, an Eastern Bloc-themed bar in the East Village. In 2018, Every house has a door director ...

“For hours after Jean-Philippe Collard had left Camille Saint-Saëns’ Fifth Piano Concerto a pile of shards on the Hollywood Bowl stage,” Alan Rich wrote in L.A. Weekly in the summer of 1999, “I racked ...

There’s a famous anecdote about a visit between the young Camille Saint-Saëns — at the time a rising Parisian composer and gifted performer — and the German composer he respected so much, Richard ...

As far as single-disc compendiums of Camille Saint-Saëns' shorter orchestral works go, this new release on the Chandos label buries the competition. Neeme Järvi may have been 74 when he made these ...

He showed immense talent from a young age, playing pieces by Mozart and Beethoven from memory at the age of ten. He enjoyed a steady increase in popularity over the course of his career, punctuated by ...

It’s easy to forget the problems there might have been in bringing an opera such as Samson and Delilah to the stage. First, there were the various challenges of matching the composer and librettist.