Classical News



09/03 Shocks, silence and explosions

09/01 The Post-Modern Ear

08/31 London Philharmonic Orchestra finance director facing jail

08/29 DSO players OK strike

08/27 Orchestra wages show vitality and volatility

08/27 How music festivals are singing the changes

08/26 Japan's maestro Ozawa makes a fragile comeback

08/26 Mud and Mozart

08/26 $5M gift allows Wagner operas to come to town

08/25 Opera Lover Targets Young Patrons

08/25 The fierce music of Estonia, Latvia

08/15 Tackling a fill-in role...

08/15 Are conductors really necessary?

08/14 Rolando Villazon should learn from the classical heroes

08/12 Taking high culture to the mass market

08/12 Boot Camp for Belters

08/11 Sweet Sounds Of Truce In Aspen

08/10 US orchestras surviving the recession ( Flash Audio )

08/07 Conductor Vassily Sinaisky named Bolshoi musical director

08/06 At a Chicago Orchestra, Diversity Is on the Program

08/05 Visionary transformed the classical music landscape

08/05 Children’s Programming at Bayreuth: Wagner, of Course, and They Love It

08/02 Classical Music an Effective Antidepressant

08/02 Paging Peter Gelb

08/02 L.A. Phil encourages donations via texting

07/28 A movement that's more than a blip on orchestral landscape

07/25 Cloistered nuns cinch record deal

07/22 Opera Star to Try Some Musical-Theater Gunplay

07/19 Musical Spells Cast in Theatrical Margins

07/16 That iPad iRecital: do you buy it?

07/16 Philharmonic Paid Maazel $3.3 Million in Last Year

07/16 'Resignation' bogus, musicians contend

07/15 A tribute to Sir Charles Mackerras

07/15 Restoring Bach

07/15 Sir Charles Mackerras dies

07/14 Do-Re-Mi Promotes a Feeling of ‘We’

07/14 Tenor Placido Domingo to add Rigoletto

07/14 Artist's creativity shines through

07/13 Brabbins gives Beethoven just 24 hours

07/12 New Opera Focuses on Clinton's Life

07/11 Composer David Cope teaches computers to create classical music

07/11 Opera in Baltimore is thriving

07/08 Venezuelan orchestras to spawn new Dudamels: Rattle

07/05 Help Wanted at the N.Y. Philharmonic

07/01 Peter Gelb talks

06/29 Symphony President Elaine Calder signs extension

06/29 A String Master In Brooklyn

06/29 Ludovic Morlot chosen to replace Schwarz at Seattle Symphony

06/28 'Mozart Effect' Was Just What We Wanted To Hear

06/24 Die Meistersinger and the Fourth Reich of art

06/19 Music of the sun recorded by scientists

06/18 Philadelphia meets Yannick Nézet-Séguin

06/16 Maureen Forrester, opera icon, dead at 79

06/18 Philadelphia meets Yannick Nézet-Séguin

06/16 Maureen Forrester, opera icon, dead at 79

06/05 His Intimate Creations

06/03 Sting goes Classical

06/01 Sydney Opera House safety risks denied

05/31 Critic's Notebook: A season with gusto

05/31 Villaume Calls it Quits

05/26 Kathaleen Chandley, pianist, will provide the inaugural program

05/23 'Bugsy' goes to the ballet

05/21 L.A.'s YOLA takes up challenge of El Sistema model

05/11 Stephen Hough wins coveted award from the Royal Philharmonic Society

04/20 The Wolf at Our Heels

04/15 What You Won’t See in ‘Tosca’ This Time Around

04/14 Heritage High grad and classical composer Jennifer Higdon wins Pulitzer

04/13 A Crusade of Seduction and Sorcery

04/05 Conductor Survives Marathon, Placates Romanian Diva: Interview

04/03 Sir Colin Davis: an illustrious career

03/31 Composer Peter Eotvos makes modern opera "angelic"

03/26 Domingo returns after cancer, singing privately

03/22 Levine to miss remainder of BSO season

03/22 Wagner’s Grandson, Head of Bayreuth Festival

03/20 Vienna Philharmonic names 1st female concertmaster

03/15 A Chance to Listen to the Future at the Met

03/06 Picture This: Who Nose

03/02 Simon Callow's Classical Destinations: BBC

02/17 A tale of two orchestras

02/11 A Snowy Celebration of Schumann and Chopin

02/05 New York Met Goes Global

02/02 Sony Pays $3 Million to Win Pianist Lang Lang: Norman Lebrecht

01/31 SF Symphony, Fleming and Epstein win classical Grammy awards

01/23 Earl Wild, Pianist, Dies at 94

01/20 Domingo Triumphs at Met as Unlucky Old Doge of Genoa

01/15 House concerts an alternative to commercial shows

01/15 Domingo Makes History at Met Singing Baritone Role

01/14 Sony Classical Signs American Pianist Simone Dinnerstein

01/12 A Wife’s Betrayal, a Husband’s Internal Seething

01/04 Met’s Gala ‘Carmen’ Stars Franco’s Thugs, Latvian Diva

01/02 Asking Stars Not Just to Play, but Also to Stay

12/29 Unconventional Maestro Makes Met Debut With ‘Carmen’

12/21 Echoes of the Age of Bach

12/14 Gustavo Dudamel takes over the L.A. Philharmonic

12/13 Young faces on the podium are adding verve to Britain's orchestras

12/10 Notes From Leonardo’s Musical Dreams

12/07 Musical surgeon examines the OR soundtrack

12/07 Film composers lose luster

12/04 Detroit Symphony Orchestra's Slatkin recounts heart attack

11/25 Haydn expert HC Robbins Landon dies at 83

11/19 Carnegie Hall Selling Bonds to Remodel

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