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Mozart’s Symphony No. 29 in A Major is one of the earlier works in which Mozart truly found his own voice as a composer.

Doesn’t it always seem like you’ve barely gotten done with back to school season and Halloween events when suddenly you’ve got to pick out pieces for your Winter holiday concert?

Doesn’t it always seem like you’ve barely gotten done with back to school season and Halloween events when suddenly you’ve got to pick out pieces for your Winter holiday concert?

When the Rolling Stones began their careers as a scruffy English blues band playing gigs around London in 1962, none of them could have dreamed that the band would still be going strong fifty years later.

Pippin has been called “a hip, tongue-in-cheek, anachronistic fairy tale,” and this musical theater piece has captured the hearts of Broadway audiences since its debut in 1972.

Fall is here, and as the leaves begin to change and the days grow shorter thoughts will turn to that most magical of Autumn holidays.

In 1879, the University of Breslau (in Wroclaw, Poland) awarded an honorary doctorate to composer Johannes Brahms, who was then at the height of his career.

Tower of Power, the legends of soul music, have been funkifying fans across the world for more than 40 years.

Many of us on the SmartMusic team have a special fondness for “Funkytown” because the piece is a hometown success story.

Eric Whitacre is best known for his groundbreaking “virtual choir” projects, which have brought together thousands of singers from countries across the globe using social media and online video sharing to perform pieces that explore themes of connectivity and transcendence.