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 ...

Do lords or mobs shape the lives of nations? Modest Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, which compresses seven gruesome years of Russian history into four and a half glorious hours, abounds with both. The ...

Modest Mussorgsky wasn't leaving anything to chance in his opera Kovanshchina. He wrote voluminous notes about the history along the way. But in the end, only the music counted. Claudio Abbado ...

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 ...

People with synesthesia hear music as colors, and Modest Mussorgsky saw paintings on a wall as music. Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes plays some of Mussorgsky's famous Pictures at an Exhibition in concert at ...