This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of classical composer Jean Sibelius. Musician David Was says the composer's work was in danger of falling out of fashion, but is recently enjoying a ...

Classical Music aficionados have likely noted that Finnish music and the name of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius have been popping up with unusual frequency. That’s likely because this year marks the ...

In his native Finland, Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) has always been much more than “just” a great composer. He was the country’s first modern hero: To find an American equivalent, we might liken him to ...

Wildly popular a century ago as an icon of Finnish nationalism in a late-Romantic vein, Jean Sibelius was largely dismissed by music aficionados after World War II as something of a conservative ...

Jean Sibelius is a specialty of the house at Orchestra Hall. Over the course of Osmo Vänskä's 19 years as music director, the Minnesota Orchestra's interpretations of Finland's national composer have ...

More than 1,000 people gathered in the bright sunshine on the steps of Helsinki Cathedral to sing the Finlandia hymn, one of the most popular compositions of composer Jean Sibelius, whose 150th ...

Tuesday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s “Sibelius Unbound” festival ventured into chamber music territory -- a field that a wag might dub “Sibelius Unheard.” In other ...

Now that society has begun accepting gender as a matter of identity, might we not next adapt a similar flexibility to age identity? Let this week’s Los Angeles Philharmonic program of Sibelius’ last ...

There's no biographical reason why the University of Houston Moores School of Music is presenting a Sibelius festival next weekend. The famous Finnish composer was born 140 years ago and died 49 years ...