When a chipping sparrow trills, it could be that spring has arrived. When women’s voices ululate, they do so, in different regions of the world, to celebrate, to mourn, to pray, to warn, to seduce.

The most poetic musician who ever lived? It’s hard to disagree with Liszt’s appraisal of Schubert, who, in his short life, used his astonishing gift for melodic and harmonic invention to create many ...

In Paris, “L’Autre Voyage” assembles the composer’s arias and art songs to create a jukebox show, perhaps the greatest opera Schubert never wrote. Franz Schubert in a drawing from around 1820. When he ...

So who was Franz Schubert, really? Quite possibly not the cherubic genius that novels, films and even biographies have depicted him as being. Schubert, it seems, could be real trouble, especially when ...

Composed in September of 1828, during the final weeks of Schubert's life, the Quintet in C for two violins, viola and two cellos was the composer's last instrumental work and ranks among his greatest ...

A work ahead of its time, the composer’s great song cycle meditates on all our disappointments. By Phil Hebblethwaite “Come over to Schober’s today, and I will sing you a cycle of terrifying songs,” ...