Classical News

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave a piano recital for Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.

Intrigue surrounding the election of the new rector of the St. Petersburg Conservatory continued this week as one of three candidates for the post, Alexei Vasiliev, the rector of the Rimsky-Korsakov classical ...

There's a new way to get to Carnegie Hall - YouTube, YouTube, YouTube. Borrowing from "American Idol," the online video site announced plans Monday for a YouTube Symphony Orchestra , featuring a collaboration ...

Iberia Parish Library will present a Sunday matinee performance of live classical music featuring Jeffrey Grossman, pianist and Evan Drachman, cellist at 3 p.m. on Dec.7 at the Sliman/Evangeline Theatre, 129 ...

All-Tchaikovsky concerts can sometimes be little more than potboilers - safe bets for the programmers.

How about a little Chopin with that cappuccino? Some Beethoven with your beer? On Sunday nights at the Revolution Cafe, the vibe is relaxed and way retro.

India Gazette Monday 1st December, 2008 Jethro Tull, one of the world's leading western music bands, and sitar exponent Anoushka Shankar dedicated their two-hour concert in the capital to the 'security forces ...

VIEW THIS PAGE When I first heard Kenneth Branagh had directed a film version of Mozart s The Magic Flute set during the First World War my hopes weren t high.

SOUTH Korea is famous for conserving traditional performing arts and Malaysian audiences will have the chance to watch the Goguryo Art Orchestra perform at Dewan Sri Pinang at 8pm on Dec 4. Besides being ...

The holiday music season opens this weekend with the return of the Rackham Symphony Choir's annual production of "Too Hot to Handel," a vivaciously infectious reinvention of Handel's "Messiah" in a musical ...

Founded in 1996, Eighth Blackbird is a US contemporary music sextet whose work inhabits territory somewhere between classical gig, installation and physical theatre.

CARTER CENTENARY AT NEC After a drum roll that has lasted for months, the composer's 100th birthday is finally around the corner and more institutions are stepping up.

IN HIS exhaustive biography on Hector Berlioz, the critic David Cairns describes the French Romantic composer's epic The Damnation of Faust as "an opera of the mind's eye". StA©phane DenA ve, who conducts ...

A few months ago I sat in a friend's living room in Lahore and listened to one of India's greatest classical Hindustani singers, Shubha Mudgal, perform with a renowned Pakistani singer, Tina Sani.

Category: Physical Science Posted on: November 24, 2008 10:00 AM, by Matt Springer Classical is how you look at it.

Caption: Placido Domingo 2008 Princess Grace Awards Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street - Arrivals New York City, USA .... Legendary tenor PLACIDO DOMINGO has teamed up with JOSH GROBAN, VANESSA WILLIAMS and ANDREA ...

Enjoy ghazals, bhajans and raga-based Bollywood songs at a concert by Gopa Chakravarty.

Conducted by internationally known composer, conductor and pianist Giancarlo Aquilanti, at 5 p.m. Sunday at St.

A good time is had by all on this new album from cellist Yo-Yo Ma. It's a musical holiday party -- and the eclectic guest list includes Renee Fleming, Alison Kraus, Paquito D'Rivera, and James Taylor.

As Bacon, the small-time scam artist in 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,' Jason Statham worked comically hard to be a hard guy.