Three days a week, before Medford's St. Mary's School convenes for classes, orchestra director Mark Barnard directs a chamber orchestra class in the Brandenburg Sinfonia from Cantata No. 174. Read More
You run your own label, which itself deserves a Tenth for being record label of the century so far in its encouragement of music that does not as such conform to the obvious and which in a larger sense represents your interest in music that sounds like the last thing it wants to sound like is something that can easily be described by an established and limiting genre name. Read More
Historicity giveaway contest starting today. Read More
Gustavo Dudamel may have a reputation as the world's most wildly exuberant ambassador for classical music, but at this precise moment he has his audience in the palm of his hand and is reducing them to an absolute hush. Read More
Light bounced off dozens of brass and wooden instruments as members of the Austin Symphony Orchestra rehearsed Cary Ratcliff's "Ode to Common Things" onstage at the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Center for the Performing Arts last week. Read More
Hershey Felder is an altogether remarkable polymath -- an exceptional actor, writer, pianist, singer and teacher. Read More
Every year in November, Alaska's high school All-State musicians travel to the Anchorage area to perform pieces of music they've practiced by themselves. Read More
The concerto may be written in four movements, but Saul Medina's movements won't stop there. Read More
Five young talented members of the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra took the audience in a musical journey through the works of famous composers in different periods during a brass band concert at the Waqif Art Centre (WAC) last night. Read More
When pianist Gabriela Montero makes her debut with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra tonight (performing again tomorrow through Sunday), she will extend Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 with the sort of improvisational flair — possibly with some blues, jazz or tango — for which she has caused excitement in concert halls around the world. Read More
No figure in 20th century American classical music had as prominent or controversial a career -- or did more to sell classical ... Read the full Leonard Bernstein bio.