So thorough is an immersion into the world of Jean Sibelius offered by Seattle Symphony in coming weeks that a drinking-age patron will be able to sample the Finnish composer’s favorite cocktail in ...

There's no biographical reason why the University of Houston Moores School of Music is presenting a Sibelius festival next weekend. The famous Finnish composer was born 140 years ago and died 49 years ...

Helenans will get a rare treat Saturday night, when Finnish virtuoso violinist Petteri Iivonen opens the Helena Symphony season, performing Jean Sibelius’ beautiful and demanding violin concerto. This ...

We’re talking about the music of Jean Sibelius, the voice of Finland, the Scandinavian North. This is an unusual view of the Jean Sibelius monument in Helsinki, Finland on Feb. 27, 1968. (AP) The work ...

No American feels about a classical composer the way that Finns feel about Jean Sibelius. Their attachment to his music is so profound that Sibelius has created nothing less than the soundtrack to ...

This Saturday at 8 p.m., interim conductor William Boughton will lead the Yale Symphony Orchestra in the final performance of the ensemble’s 2018–19 concert season. The program, titled “Other Hearts ...

Wildly popular a century ago as an icon of Finnish nationalism in a late-Romantic vein, Jean Sibelius was largely dismissed by music aficionados after World War II as something of a conservative ...

Mark Kanny Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019 12:00 a.m. | Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019 12:00 a.m. One of the world’s leading conductors returns to Heinz Hall this week to do double duty. Osmo Vanska will lead a ...

It’s a bit startling to realize that Jean Sibelius has been dead for only 50 years, for he is a figure who seems like part of a deeper past. To put it in stark perspective, he was born in the year ...