Garrett Ammon must know it takes chutzpah to choreograph Tchaikovsky’s “Serenade for Strings in C Major,” the same music George Balanchine used for the first ballet he created in America, in 1934.

The Reading Symphony Orchestra will feature one of its own Saturday at 8 p.m., when principal trombonist Bradley Ward performs Nino Rota’s Trombone Concerto. Music director Andrew Constantine will ...

The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra’s Florida Blue Masterworks Series continued over the weekend with “Tchaikovsky’s String Serenade,” a program featuring two easily accessible and enjoyable works led ...

In 1934, a few months after his arrival in New York, George Balanchine choreographed “Serenade.” It was his first ballet for American dancers, a seminal work that marked the way he was to reshape and ...