Daniel Kramer’s florid, lurid production of Pictures from an Exhibition, a collaboration with the Young Vic last year, made it to its partner theatre, Sadler’s Wells, this weekend, a creation where ...

History has many examples of one art form enhancing or commenting on another. Great paintings, in particular, have inspired great composers for ages. It is said Hokusai’s torrential “Great Wave” ...

The next time you have a half-hour to kill, go on YouTube and listen to any performance of the opening “Promenade” from the original piano score for Modest Mussorgsky’s 1874 suite “Pictures at an ...

How do you feel when you walk into an art gallery? Do you feel confused, curious, or excited? In 1874 the composer Modest Mussorgsky entered an exhibition in Saint Petersburg that would inspire his ...