It’s a great injustice that French composer Camille Saint-Saëns is most widely remembered for a mere handful of his hundreds of works. Ironically, the evergreen “Carnival of the Animals,” among the ...

He was music’s Renaissance man, a former child prodigy whose genius extended beyond music to linguistics, literature and science. But Camille Saint-Saëns was a restless creative spirit whose constant ...

As far as single-disc compendiums of Camille Saint-Saëns' shorter orchestral works go, this new release on the Chandos label buries the competition. Neeme Järvi may have been 74 when he made these ...

There’s a famous anecdote about a visit between the young Camille Saint-Saëns — at the time a rising Parisian composer and gifted performer — and the German composer he respected so much, Richard ...

Halloween music has gone much the way of the holiday over the decades: accumulating camp and kitsch, confectionary fun, friendly monster-on-monster romping, and a sort of innocence that has made the ...

Samson and Delilah is a three-act French opera. It is based on the story of Samson and Delilah in the Old Testament of the Bible. The words and story of the opera were written by Ferdinand Lemaire.

The saints come marching into the latest Hartford Symphony Orchestra Masterworks concert, at The Bushnell’s Belding Theater. There’s Camille Saint-Saëns, Joseph Bologne Chevalier de Saint-Georges plus ...

Danse Macabre (translation: Dance of Death) by Camille Saint-Saëns is a tone poem that tells the story of Death making the dead rise from their graves on Halloween and dance to his sinister tune.

“For hours after Jean-Philippe Collard had left Camille Saint-Saëns’ Fifth Piano Concerto a pile of shards on the Hollywood Bowl stage,” Alan Rich wrote in L.A. Weekly in the summer of 1999, “I racked ...