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 ...

Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky and Borodin article by Larry Slater, published on February 6, 2026 at All About Jazz. Find more Radio & Podcasts articles ...

After a somewhat low-key — pun intended — beginning on Friday night, the San Diego Symphony launched its monthlong “Upright & Grand” piano festival into powerhouse territory Saturday evening with a ...

A ‘cradle-to-grave songspiel’ describing the arc of a woman’s life is brilliantly conceived by soprano Booth and pianist Glynn Modest Mussorgsky is indisputably one of the greatest of 19th-century ...

I MUSICI DE MONTREAL On the program: Mussorgsky, "Pictures at an Exhibition"; Tchaikovsky, "Souvenir of Florence"; Borodin, "Nocturne." Yuli Turovsky, conductor. Presented by Birmingham Music Club.

“Unorthodox” is a description you could apply to much of the music by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky (1839-81). He was born into wealth (fellow composer Borodin once called him “an elegant ...

The Kentucky Symphony Orchestra projects the art which influenced composers Andrew Strawn, Michael Daugherty and Modest ...

The Vermont Symphony Orchestra is embracing the exotic when it opens its 2025-26 season next weekend in Burlington and Rutland, but it hasn’t forgotten to include a beloved “war horse.” “It all ...

Inspired by Modest Mussorgsky's 1874 piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition, it's an original theater piece—with dance and live piano music—set in a museum, written by local playwright Melissa Leilani ...

Read our review of Modest Mussorgsky's *Boris Godunov*, directed by Richard Jones, now in performances at the Royal Opera ...

Listening to Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition," Martinez artist Cathy Riggs painted a fiery "cymbal crash." Pinole artist Michael Resso painted a dog in a shadowy cave ...