Itzhak Perlman

When Nathaniel Taylor plays the cello a multitude of expressions flash across his face that paint a picture of a young man lost in a world of music and imagination. Read More

The Celtic band will perform Friday at the Grand Sierra Resort. Read More

As chair of the music department, Professor Gregory Clemons holds one of the College's best-kept secrets: its music classes and faculty members are on par with the state's best. Read More

In my ideal world, everyone would have access to a vinyl press in their own backyard. Read More

Thomas Wilkins is having a busy weekend, and not just because of his Omaha Symphony concert tonight with violinist Itzhak Perlman. Read More

MORRIS TOWNSHIP Bickford Theater "Tea and Crumpets with Alison Larkin," comedy show. Read More

In Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona , art student Vicky finds herself stirred by the sensual sounds of the six-string Spanish guitar, also known as the classical guitar, which is plucked, rather than strummed with a pick, and produces sharp, distinct sounds. Read More

Practice, practice, practice -- for up to seven hours a day -- was the message delivered by violinist Areta Zhulla, a member of the LK String Quartet. Read More

The only way you'll get a young audience other than the small Juilliard crowd to attend "You Cannot Start Without Me—Valery Gergiev, Maestrois if the 20-somethings think that "Maestro" is the name of a heavy metal group. Here in the U.S., classical music has been heading for the toilet, losing ground yearly, steamrollered by rock groups, punk groups, easy-listening stations, even the insipid ballads popularized by the 1950s TV series "Your Hit Parade." Tower Records did not go out of business because it could not sell its classical CDs as that department represented only one percent of its inventory. Indeed only about one percent of Americans dig the classics—about the same as the percentage that go to movies with subtitles. Read More

Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic , October 8–24, 2009. Read More