As the year winds down, the Yakima Symphony Orchestra is only just getting warmed up. More than half of the 2025–2026 Let’s Dance season still lies ahead. Each concert this season includes a work by ...

Feuds and protests of ideology aren’t limited to politics. In the 1880s there was a feud between followers of Brahms and Wagner over directions in music. This "The War of the Romantics" was a battle ...

The late 19th century “War of the Romantics” pitted “absolute music,” like that of Brahms that was about nothing but itself, against “programmatic music” like that of Wagner that supported a narrative ...

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