When a musician joins the Royal Danish Orchestra, he or she is allocated a number. John Dowland’s was 140, Carl Nielsen’s 647 and Thomas Søndergård’s 959. The history of the world’s oldest musical ...

The Royal Danish Orchestra celebrates its 575th anniversary this season. The orchestra marks the occasion with four symphonic concerts with music stemming from the various art forms that their ...

That instinct was all the more striking when you saw the way the orchestra’s principal conductor, Michael Boder (pictured below by Alexander Vasiljev), went about his business. A slight, elegant ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Each year, the Royal Danish Theatre celebrates ...

After 16 years in the second violin section of the Royal Danish Orchestra from 1889 when he also composed his first two symphonies, in 1905 Danish composer Carl Nielsen gave up his orchestral position ...

The sea never left his side. Søndergård's career requires constant jetting, including frequent trips to Glasgow, where he leads the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and now Minneapolis, where in ...

At age 24 in 1889 Carl Nielsen began his 16-year position in the second violin section of the Royal Danish Orchestra. Five years later he performed in the orchestra for the premiere of his own First ...