The city of Rome is famed for its beauty. But too much traffic is having a harmful effect on the city — not only is the vibration threatening some historic structures, but the pollution is becoming ...

Conductor Giancarlo Guerrero brings out all the Technicolor glory of Ottorino Respighi's Roman postcards, Fountains of Rome and Pines of Rome--two vivid tone poems that sound like the best movie ...

In antiquity, Rome was known as Regina Aquarum, the “queen of the waters.” With its thousands of fountains, from the ever-flowing drinking taps referred to as “nasoni” to the hundreds of gushing ...

Pianist Bruce Liu acknowledged applause after performing with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, led by music director Fabio Luisi (also applauding, at left), at the Meyerson Symphony Center on Oct. 9.

Ottorino Resphighi was in love with colorful sounds. The sounds of the wind whispering through the Pines of Rome. The sounds of fountains burbling in the city. Birds, and nature sounds. But the sound ...

LENOX — The widely held consensus that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D (to be performed at Tanglewood on Saturday night by violinist Joshua Bell and the Boston Symphony Orchestra ...

If treatments for his “glass arm” had not kept Conductor Toscanini so long in Italy (TIME, March 14 et ante), the world première of his friend Ottorino Respighi’s Maria Egiziaca might have caused more ...