A cartoon hangs on a wall in the offices of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra. It shows a violinist entering a door marked “1812 Overture Rehearsals.” Behind him follows a percussionist, dragging a ...
Somehow, over the past half-century and with hardly anyone noticing, the 19th century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky has become as integral to the Fourth of July as George Washington and ...