Classical Music News

01/01 Puccini and Operetta? He Does It His Way

12/31 Classical: The best (and worst) of 2008

12/21 Piano serves as current of communication for deaf RIT student

12/17 The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra erased its deficit

12/16 ‘Tea and classical music’ approach to cut Brit drinkers’ rowdy behaviour

12/12 Do You Hear What I Hear? Holiday music is inescapable.

11/20 Galbraith Continues with Wagner's Ring - Week 3!

11/14 The pianist Leon Fleisher is back playing with two hands

11/11 Music to your ears is music for your heart, too!

11/06 Techno-Alchemy at the Opera

10/24 Classical Ghosts, Audible Once Again

10/21 Go-ahead granted for £12m Leeds dance centre

10/21 Wagner's 'Rienzi' takes a cartoon-like turn

10/16 CSO to give Chicago students gift of music

10/03 The Unsung Success of Live Classical Music

09/28 Esa-Pekka Salonen and L.A. Phil grow together

09/25 Violins of Holocaust victims played in Jerusalem concert

09/22 Curtain up for Royal Opera online

09/20 Piano industry loses a legend: Henry Steinway

09/18 Unknown score written by Mozart found in France!

09/17 Anonymous $2M gift endows free concerts

09/14 While abroad, CSO shows off its strengths and smashes some stereotypes, too

09/10 Conductor Vernon Handley has died

09/06 Encore for a Stradivarius

09/01 Half-Sister Duo to Direct Bayreuth

08/27 WCPE “Preview!” Features Chiara String Quartet

08/26 Finding a fit successor to Sawallisch

08/23 Gergiev's Russian Overture: A Symphony of Sympathies

08/21 Youth Orchestras: energy, freshness, and a passion for music

08/20 Met set on more opera

08/09 Daniel Barenboim: Playing for peace

08/03 Amid Despair in a Venezuelan Prison, Strains of Hope From a Music Program

08/03 WHEN the reclusive Argentine pianist Martha Argerich performs

07/24 Disorderly conduct: DJ Goldie conduct the Sinfonia Tamesa orchestra

07/13 WCPE - An Amazing Business Model

07/04 Music to rummage by: Pianist has turned Salvation Army thrift shop into a cabaret

06/26 WCPE's signature artist, Nick Meglin, talks about his MAD life...

06/22 Alana Vegter teaches a new kind of musician

06/20 Jeffrey Kahane webcasts from Aspen!

06/06 Yo-Yo Ma still revels in the joy of learning

05/29 Teacher's lessons go beyond music

05/05 Maestro Muti off to Chicago

04/27 German conductor makes belated Miami debut

04/14 Hilary Hahn: Performers Simpatico, but Parallel

03/31 Bravo Franco: Zeffirelli's Fabulous `Boheme' Returns to the Met

03/29 Orchestras expand recording options

03/26 Classical: Murray Perahia

03/18 Music 'can reduce chronic pain'

03/11 Margaret Atwood takes on role of librettist

03/07 Conductor in L.A. revives lost music of Holocaust

02/28 Amazing new portait of Bach emerges!

02/26 New York Philharmonic Gets Ovations in North Korea

02/24 Local NC artist to perform with NY Philharmonic

02/22 The NY Philharmonic will try a dash of Dvorak diplomacy

02/07 Project Symphony!

02/02 WCPE Expands Offerings to Mandarin Speaking Audience!

01/29 WCPE: Three Decades of Great Classical Music!

01/29 Violist displays full palette of colours at a remarkable recital

01/27 Cleveland Orchestra in Miami: A Photo Tour

01/22 Sinfonietta plans to help minority musicians

01/10 Gustavo Dudamel: Passing the Baton to the Next Wunderkind

01/08 Join the Concert Singers of Cary for "Voices of Light" Saturday, January 12 - Sold Out!

01/02 Measuring the merit of classical music composers

12/17 Eastern Music Festival Founder Dies in Switzerland

12/13 Barry Saunders: Piano plea hits a chord!

12/11 Another Movement of Musical Diplomacy

12/09 Amazing response to Jordan Masuca Pianos for Hope!

12/04 Piano holds key to hope

11/28 Universal classical music online without copy block

11/27 Opera singer Jessye Norman to give UNC commencement address

11/5 Brain 'closes eyes' to hear music

10/28 Gil Rose is reimagining the modern orchestra

10/12 Reinhard Keiser's The Fortunes of King Croesus - almost 300 years after it was first performed

10/11 The Best Listener in America

10/10 Chopin's French Piano Maker Stakes Survival on Great Grand

10/08 Paradigm shift for Chicago Classical music lovers...

10/03 WCPE Releases
“A Classical Bouquet”
Great Works from Across the Classical Music Spectrum

10/01 Sour Note: the best woods are becoming scarce.

9/27 Festival's next piano will be handled with care!

9/27 Internet is future of the Orchestra

9/23 North Carolina Opera succeeds at reaching out

9/23 Fringe Atlanta’s Most Excellent Debut

9/14 Classics for the masses

9/06 Luciano Pavarotti, Italian Tenor, Is Dead at 71

8/19 From Salzburg, a Mozart-a-thon

8/13 Rachel Barton Pine to be Featured on WCPE’s Show 'Preview!'

8/9 Detroit Symphony Orchestra in a showdown

8/9 Met Opera to Expand in Theaters Across Globe

7/30 National Symphony Orchestra's Season Preview Concert

7/30 Tacoma tries classical music to chase gangs from bus stops

7/18 Tenor Jerry Hadley Is Dead at 55

7/16 Celebrated tenor Jerry Hadley was taken off life support Monday

7/11 Report: Pavarotti doing well

7/11 The Stradivari of Ramadi - Soldier Creates Beautiful Instruments in the Field

7/3 Beverly Sills, All-American Diva, Is Dead at 78

6/29 Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment: Play for today

6/28 Beverly Sills Reported to Be Gravely Ill

6/28 Juilliard Launches Website for Manuscript Collection

6/27 Mark Morris Says Mozart Made Him Lose His Mind

6/27 'Grateful Dead Symphony' Released on CD

6/26 Musical route to crime-free life

6/26 Conductors in a scattershot era of recording

6/26 The World's Oldest Living Tenor Celebrates His 105th Birthday (And He's a Newlywed, No Less!)

6/25 One Marketing Agency May Have Found Secret to Attracting Young Audiences

6/24 Festival screens rare Elgar film

6/23 Medical biography dispels Beethoven myths

6/22 Woody Allen to Direct His First Opera - Puccini's Gianni Schicchi in Los Angeles

6/22 New York Philharmonic Receives $5 Million Gift to Support Parks Concerts

6/20 Cellist Peforms Atop Mt. Fuji

6/20 Peter Oundjan: Sound Conflict

6/19 Polish cleaner discovered to be brilliant concert pianist

6/19 Sickness Forces Helene Grimaud to End Recital Early

6/19 Unqualified criticism

6/18 ASK THE EXPERTS: Why can an opera singer be heard over the much louder orchestra?

6/18 Singing salesman Paul Potts wins talent show

6/17 FIVE THINGS: About an orchestra librarian

6/15 Performances enhance culinary accompaniment

6/16 Podiums of London Welcome Newcomers

6/15 Performances enhance culinary accompaniment

6/15 Flights of fancy

6/15 The gay marriage of Figaro: Festival presents queer night

6/14 Dude, this music goes to a new level

6/14 Conductor Loses Passport - and Loses Gig

6/14 Buffalo Philharmonic Settles Anti-Discrimination Suit Brought by Oboist

6/14 New Edition of Bach's Complete Works Finished After Five Decades

6/14 Strauss Heirs Ordered to Share Royalties with Heirs of Hofmannsthal

6/11 Top London Violinist to Busk His Way Around the World

6/11 Guarneri Quartet to Retire in 2009

6/11 John Tavener: 'I had a dream vision'

6/11 Seattle Opera Builds a Singing Pig

6/10 Leon Fleisher: A Pianist for Whom Never Was Never an Option

6/10 The detective work is done. Let the music play.

6/8 Musicians allowed to take a bow

6/6 Return to Classical Was Good Business Move for Washington's WETA

6/6 Stolen Callas Gown Returned by Mail

6/6 Putting Tchaikowsky on the couch

6/6 Welser-Most named music director of Vienna State Opera

6/5 Ophthalmologist Wins Van Cliburn Competition for Amateur Pianists

6/5 Canada Denies Winnie Mandela Visa to Attend New Opera About Her Life

6/5 La Scala Philharmonic to Close U.S. Tour with Concert Near Ground Zero

6/5 'Naganomania' Attacts New Listeners to Montreal Symphony

6/4 Music and conflict

6/4 Conductor Robert King jailed for groping youths

6/3 Pittsburgh to Drop 'Amusement Tax' on Non-Profit Arts Groups

6/3 The Best Buildings You'll Ever Hear

6/3 Concert Hall? How About Music Museum?

6/3 Eschenbach's sour notes on bosses risks his finale

6/3 Play marks 25th anniversary of Gould's death with recreation of final night

6/2 Questions Are Raised About Firing of Soprano

6/2 Company fires soprano from production at 11th hour -- director defends decision

6/2 Diary of Nazi survivor turned into an opera

6/1 San Francisco Opera to Introduce High-Definition Video in Opera House

5/31 Costume Worn by Maria Callas Stolen from Athens Exhibition

5/31 ArkivMusic Begins Selling Out of Print Recordings, Burned to Order on CD

5/31 Royal Opera Steps Into New Act: DVD Maker

5/31 Peter Oundjian: Maestro passes the baton

5/31 Paavo Järvi to Succeed Christoph Eschenbach at Helm of Orchestre de Paris

5/30 The boy who would be Wagner

5/30 More than a stage

5/30 Opera on the Jumbotron

5/29 Pianist Stephen Hough Barred from Playing Concert in Vietnam

5/29 Performances at Cleveland Orchestra and Detroit Symphony Are Literal Showstoppers

5/29 The Eastern Enlightenment: Carnegie Hosts Concert of Rediscovered Music from Catherine the Great's Court

5/29 Scientists Develop Software to Turn DNA Patterns Into Music

5/29 Stradivarius Violin Stolen From Vienna Apartment

5/28 Playing Cellphones On Stage Has Ring Of Respectability

5/29 Roberto Alagna Cancels Another Opera Engagement (This Time in Advance)

5/28 Franz Schubert: The motivation behind the music

5/27 The afterlife of Brian

5/27 James Levine: Perpetual-Motion Maestro

5/26 Welser-Möst tries it again, twice, after concerto stops orchestra in its tracks

5/25 Photo Journal: 'Opera by Design' Opens at Gallery Met

5/25 Take me out to the...Opera?

5/25 Elgar: Right on the money

5/25 Elgar: Stand up for the maestro

5/24 Deborah Proctor: WCPE chief on Internet radio's possible demise

5/24 Mozart to put sharks in the mood

5/24 Newly discovered Mendelssohn sold at Sotheby's

5/24 Danish filmmaker's 'Dancer in the Dark' to be made into opera

5/23 Orchestra still listening to trombone candidates

5/23 Show goes on for injured soprano

5/22 Carnegie Hall to Expand Into Studio Towers and Renovate Backstage Areas

5/22 William Orbit: 'People will see my heart and soul'

5/22 Maestro, is that a DJ with your orchestra?

5/22 Chicago's New Period-Instrument Orchestra Debuts May 22-24

5/22 Husband of Peter Maxwell Davies's Manager Arrested in Connection with Disappearance of £500,000

5/21 Conductor made 'childhood misery'

5/20 Making the Maestro Collaborator in Chief

5/19 Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: The maverick Master of the Queen's Music

5/19 'I put up with noisy opera-goers'

5/18 Metropolitan Opera Enjoys First Ticket Sales Increase in Six Years

5/18 Maestro Michael Tilson Thomas Meets 'Godfather of Soul'

5/18 Prince of Wales commissions piano concerto in memory of Queen Mother

5/17 Met Opera to Expand Simulcasts in Theaters

5/17 Walt Disney World Co. Gives $12.5 Million for Performing Arts Center in Orlando

5/16 Salerno-Sonnenberg and McDermott Play Complete Brahms Sonatas at Free for All at Town Hall May 20

5/16 Cleveland Orchestra Violist Announces Trans-USA Fundraising Bicycle Ride

5/16 Stephen Hough: Piano genius with mass appeal

5/15 Boston Pops Uses YouTube for POPSearch Competition

5/15 Grateful Dead get classical treatment

5/15 Dismissed Oboist Brings Anti-Gay Discrimination Case Against Buffalo Philharmonic

5/14 Metropolitan Opera Abandons Plans for First Tour to China

5/14 George Bush Tries His Hand at Orchestra Conducting

5/11 Simon Rattle: The mighty 'wuah'

5/11 Riccardo Muti to Help Relaunch Lebanon's Music Festivals

5/11 First Evgeny Svetlanov Conducting Competition to Be Held in Luxembourg This Month

5/10 Fight breaks out in audience of Boston Pops

5/10 Munch painting returned to Mahler's descendants

5/10 Pierre Boulez Says Current Opera Production Will Be His Last

5/9 Soprano Anna Netrebko Makes Time 100

5/9 Desperately seeking Wagner

5/9 Violinist in Red Dress Offends Iranian Foreign Minister

5/8 Graz Opera to Blow Up a Chevrolet

5/7 Washington's National Symphony Orchestra Pays Tribute to Rostropovich With Free Concert May 19

5/7 Maestro market ripe for young blood

5/7 New York Philharmonic Receives Award for Music Diplomacy

5/7 At last, real Kazakh culture without Borat

5/7 Met Holds Auction to Fund Future Operas

5/6 Mr. Fix-it on the FM dial

5/3 Cincinnati Symphony Renews Paavo Järvi's Contract -- And Adds Evergreen Clause

5/2 Concerts, recording sessions keep piano prodigy, 6, on the go

5/2 Muting some notable work

5/2 Slava, the naive and sentimental

5/1 World Pays Tribute to Rostropovich

5/1 'Da Vinci' church reveals secret code

4/30 Kerfuffle in Edmonton Over Booty-Shaking Conductor

4/30 Vladimir Ashkenazy Says He Is Giving Up Piano

4/30 A symphony for Kazakhstan

4/29 Russian farewell to Rostropovich

4/29 Dear Virtuoso, I Wrote This One Just for You

4/27 Second Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition Ends Without First Prize Winner

4/27 Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist, dies aged 80

4/26 The drama ain't over 'til the svelte opera diva sings

4/26 How to get the Stradivarius sound from any violin (and better hi-fi)

4/26 Mezzo Joyce DiDonato Named Recipient of Met's Second Annual Beverly Sills Award

4/25 Does It Work Any Better in London? Violinist Tasmin Little Tries Busking Under Waterloo Bridge (view original article in the Independent)

4/25 UK Rail Company Tries to Charge Cellos for Seats on Half-Empty Train

4/25 Music teacher wins national teacher of year

4/25 WCPE tower star of the show

4/24 Coconutters! Monty Python orchestra breaks world record

4/24 For US opera fans, it's not just Met broadcasts anymore

4/23 Rostropovich Again Hospitalized in Moscow, Reportedly Has Second Operation

4/23 Montreal Symphony on the road to rebound

4/21 The Italian job

4/20 All in the mind

4/19 Australian Pianist, Battling Brain Cancer, Assembles Recordings of His Legacy

4/19 Charles Dutoit Appointed Artistic Director of London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

4/19 Filmmaker Milos Forman Directs His First Opera

4/19 Previn, Mutter and Boston Symphony Give World Premiere of Previn's Double Concerto

4/19 Opera founders are moving on

4/19 Discovery Channel to Feature WCPE's Wake Forest Radio Tower

4/18 Strauss Lyricist's Family Sues for Opera Royalties

4/16 Rostropovich Released From Moscow Hospital

4/13 Baton of the sexes

4/12 Rostropovich Hospitalized (Again) in Moscow

4/12 In pictures: 80 years of the BBC Proms

4/12 Iván Fischer Appointed Principal Conductor of DC's National Symphony Orchestra

4/11 Piano-Smuggling Ring Discovered in Shanghai

4/11 'Contagious joy' of Los Angeles orchestra's new conductor

4/11 Who says he's Elgar the Great?

4/11 Not the Messiah, Eric Idle's Comic Oratorio, to Have U.S. Premiere at Caramoor Festival

4/11 Why Alagna walked out - he says

4/10 It's Not a Joke: $100,000 Piano Falls Off the Back of the Truck

4/10 Sex, drugs and symphonies

4/10 Vladimir Ashkenazy Named Next Chief Conductor of Sydney Symphony

4/10 Lincoln Center Announces Winners of 2007 Avery Fisher Career Grants

4/9 Sydney Opera House Architects Want to Rip the Floor Out (and Lower It)

4/8 Joshua Bell: Pearls Before Breakfast

4/8 Unsettling History of That Joyous 'Hallelujah'

4/8 Gustavo Dudamel to Succeed Esa-Pekka Salonen at LA Philharmonic in 2009

4/8 Ruth Ann Swenson gets warm reception in 'Giulio Cesare' at Metropolitan Opera

4/7 Radio series 'MTT Files' knows the score

4/6 Too much to Handel

4/5 Annenberg Foundation Pledges $10 Million to Help Finance Met's Artistic Goals through 2009-10 Season

4/5 Photo Journal: All That Glitters - Hamburg Reveals Design for New Waterfront Concert Hall

4/5 Mainstay Soprano Feels Snubbed by the Met

4/5 CBC Television Cancels Its Last Performing Arts Program

4/5 Fat lady slims but opera row is not quite over

4/5 Public Radio's From the Top Becomes PBS Television Series

4/4 Increasingly in the West, the Players Are From the East

4/3 1729 Strad Sells for $2.4 Million After Four Minutes of Bidding

4/3 Vanishing acts

4/2 Philadelphia Orchestra Tries Out Podcasting

4/1 New Jersey Symphony Orchestra's plan to sell rare collection has a string attached

4/1 'Idol' for the Operatically Inclined

4/2 EMI drops DRM, in conjunction with iTunes

3/30 UK Ministry Denies Rumored Plan to Close English National Opera

3/29 'The People's Passion' - Iván Fischer and OAE Invite Audience Participation in Bach's Great Oratorio

3/29 On music: the lure of Berlin

3/29 Metropolitan Opera Guild's Annual Luncheon to Pay Tribute to Kiri Te Kanawa

3/28 Sydney Opera House saga plays on as visionary architect's sight dims

3/27 The CD Is Dead! Long live the CD!

3/27 Rostropovich Feted on 80th Birthday

3/23 Schubert and Beethoven: The Great and the good

3/23 EMI Places Entire Rostropovich Catalog on iTunes to Celebrate Maestro's 80th Birthday

3/22 Joshua Bell Wins $75,000 Avery Fisher Prize

3/21 Italian Researchers Assemble Archive of Music From World War II Concentration Camps

3/21 Kiri Te Kanawa Wins Lawsuit Filed Following Withdrawal from Concerts with Pop Star

3/21 Seiji Ozawa Returns to Podium After More Than a Year

3/20 CBC Radio Two Trims Classical Music From Schedule

3/19 One of Chopin's Own Pleyel Pianos Discovered in England

3/19 Cincinnati Pops Abandons Plans for Dukes of Hazzard-Themed Program; Former Series Star Protests

3/15 Mstislav Rostropovich: 'He is a superman'

3/15 Venerable opera gets underwater makeover

3/14 Still tingling after 30 years

3/13 Photo Journal: Frank Gehry's Design for New World Symphony's New Hall

3/12 Is It Live ... or Yamaha? Channeling Glenn Gould

3/12 Anonymous Donor Gives $90 Million to New World Symphony

3/11 French police recover 2 violins stolen from member of Los Angeles Philharmonic

3/11 Domingo, at 66, Still Feels the Passion

3/9 Pain stopped play

3/9 New Jersey Symphony to Sell Collection of Rare String Instruments

3/9 $90 Million Gift to Orchestra Goes Public

3/8 Opera to retell classic tale of love and insecticide

3/7 Rostropovich Discharged From Hospital

3/6 Miami's Carnival Center Has a Panhandler Problem

3/6 The New York City Opera drops plans for a home of its own

3/6 Baltimore Symphony's $25 Subscription Tickets Are a Big Hit

3/5 For One Oboist, a New (and Unwanted) Record

3/5 Vienna is slow to change its tune

3/2 Musing on the Barenboim X-Factor (reg. req'd)

3/2 Stephen Hough: Make it up as you go along

3/1 Wagner -- public genius with a private passion for bustles, bows and bodices

3/1 Dallas Symphony's Strad, Missing for Two Decades, Returns Home

3/1 The shocking truth about sex and violas

3/1 Woman Arrested on Suspicion of Embezzling From San Francisco Symphony

3/1 Can opera save our prisons?

2/28 In Los Angeles, Classical and Country Radio Stations Switch Places on the Dial

2/28 Baltimore Symphony Unveils Lineup for Marin Alsop's First Season

2/28 Baltimore Symphony Reduces Prices To Draw Bigger Audience

2/27 Metropolitan Opera to Expand New Productions, Movie Theater Simulcasts in 2007-08

2/27 James Levine will conduct just 4 operas at the Metropolitan Opera next season

2/27 Rostropovich awarded 'Order of Service'

2/26 'I did it for my wife' -- Joyce Hatto exclusive, William Barrington-Coupe confesses

2/25 Philadelphia Orchestra: Which Dutoit will show up?

2/25 400 years later, opera looks to the next act

2/23 Philadelphia Orchestra Names Charles Dutoit Chief Conductor

2/23 Fingering the real horn section

2/22 After 45 Years, Lorin Maazel Is to Conduct at the Metropolitan Opera (reg. req'd)

2/22 Too Perfect Harmony: How Technology Fostered, and Detected, a Pianist's Alleged Plagiarism

2/22 Tenor Jerry Hadley Exonerated of DWI Charge Stemming From Arrest Last May

2/22 Juan Diego Florez Sings First Encore Heard at La Scala in 74 Years

2/21 A Mezzo-Soprano Who's Determined to Do It Her Way, With or Without Star Turns (reg. req'd)

2/19 Satellite Radio Services XM & SIRIUS Announce Plans to Merge

2/15 Sofia Coppola quashes reports of opera directing debut

2/15 Masterpieces Or Fakes? The Joyce Hatto Scandal

2/14 The Bald Soprano: Dawn Upshaw Returns to Stage Following Cancer Treatment

2/14 NY Philharmonic Expanding with ITunes, Ringtones

2/13 Two Members of Eugene (Oregon) Symphony Killed Coming Home From Rehearsal

2/12 49th Annual Classical Grammy Award Winners

2/11 If you want scandal, call for Handel

2/9 Q & A: Martin Pearlman of Boston Baroque

2/9 WCPE's voice of opera dies

2/9 Filmmaker Sofia Coppola to Direct Her First Opera in Montpellier

2/9 Mariss Jansons: 'It's good to have dreams'

2/8 Toronto Symphony Extends Peter Oundjian's Contract Through 2012

2/7 Rostropovich in satisfactory condition after being hospitalized in Moscow

2/6 Calgary Philharmonic to display 200-year-old Mozart score

2/6 From Lead Percussionist to Different Drummer (reg. req'd)

2/6 Met to Give Encore Simulcasts of Puritani and First Emperor

2/3 Kiri Te Kanawa Testifies in Australian Court for Lawsuit

2/1 Atlanta Symphony to Build 12,000-Seat Amphitheater in Northern Suburbs

2/1 Composer Gian Carlo Menotti dies at 95

1/31 Barbie orchestrates her symphony debut

1/31 Kimmel Center gets soaked by faulty fire system

1/31 Missouri Governor Includes Arts in State Budget, Despite Kansas City Symphony's Lawsuit

1/29 Opera Singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Sued for Opting Out of Show

1/27 LA Variation: Esa-Pekka Salonen

1/26 Test your strength: the Horniman museum

1/26 Heppner, Levine, Pape, Scotto and Voigt to Receive 2006 Opera News Awards at Jan. 28 Gala

1/25 WETA Hears Some Static Over Switch To Classical

1/25 New York City Revamps (and Increases) Arts Funding

1/25 A tenor no more: Domingo to make switch to baritone

1/25 Philadelphia, NYC ready for visit from Prince Charles and Camilla

1/24 After Mozart success, Austrians gear up to honor Haydn

1/24 Franco Zeffirelli Hospitalized for Heart Trouble

1/24 A quick symphony -- then bed

1/24 Pittsburgh Symphony picks Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck as music director

1/23 Valery Gergiev Launches His Tenure at London Symphony

1/22 WETA to Resume Classical Music Broadcast

1/21 Blue jeans and Beethoven: LA orchestra adds 'casual' series

1/21 Our own music box: What counts is on the inside of Frank Gehry's design for the New World Symphony addition

1/19 Stravinsky: The Holy Fool of Music

1/19 With Strings Attached

1/18 Maestro Kent Nagano Named Honorary Citizen of Montreal

1/17 Austria's Mozart Year Drew 1.2 Million Visitors

1/16 Faculty at Toronto's Royal Conservatory Play for Workers on Construction Site

1/12 London's Royal Academy of Music Gets Its 'Lewd' Paintings Back

1/12 Steven Isserlis: How I fell in love with Ludwig

1/11 Toscanini unites old and new worlds again

1/11 Los Angeles County Takes Title to Walt Disney Concert Hall

1/10 Deborah Voigt: Still big where it counts

1/9 British Soccer Executive Named Chairman of Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

1/9 Met's New Lepage Ring Cycle to Feature Voigt's First U.S. Brunnhildes, Heppner & Terfel

1/9 Cleveland Orchestra to Return to Commercial Recording

1/9 Gergiev's Opus: A New Concert Hall (reg. req'd)

1/8 Hungarian Conductor János Fürst Dies at 71

1/5 Opera Soprano Sues Over Hotel Bedbugs

1/3 Archive of Shostakovich Papers Looks for a Home

1/2 New Year honours for high profile musicians

1/1 La Scala agrees to amended version of Carsen's Candide

12/31 Terrorism, Tenors, and Concert Halls: A Look Back at Some Top Stories of 2006

12/31 Elgar anniversary events planned

12/30 La Scala cancels show depicting Bush, Blair, Berlusconi dancing in underwear

12/29 Premiere of alleged Mozart allegro caps 250th anniversary

12/29 Online Mozart database receives 20 millionth hit

12/29 Classical station WGMS approaches finale

12/29 Metropolitan Opera Begins Simulcasts in Cinemas This Weekend; More Venues Added

12/28 In Memoriam - Twilight of the Divas: Schwarzkopf, Moffo, Varnay, Hunt Lieberson Among the Departed of 2006

12/28 Toscanini Art Collection to Be Exhibited at Avery Fisher Hall

12/22 Bernard Haitink Named Musical America's 2007 Musician of the Year

12/22 Stolen violin - worth $50,000 - returned in time for Christmas

12/21 Conductor Michel Tabachnik Acquitted of Contributing to Cult Killings

12/19 Consultant Suggests Oregon Symphony May Play Too Much Classical Music

12/19 Zeffirelli may cast troubled tenor Alagna in La Traviata

12/19 Bizet's Bust Stolen From Pere-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris

12/18 Staging of 'Idomeneo' goes calmly

12/18 Tight security for Mozart opera

12/18 Is booing an entertainer's performance ever justified?

12/17 The High C and the Low Rumble (reg. req'd)

12/16 In his dreams, at least he had some notice

12/16 Stepping in for a Star, but Not Feeling Like One (reg. req'd)

12/15 Booed singer puts on rival show

12/15 Booed tenor blames low blood sugar

12/15 Violinist still recovering from Christmas beating

12/14 North Carolina Symphony musician kidnapped, robbed

12/14 Texan Woman Charged With Stealing Glenn Gould Memorabilia Sentenced to Community Service

12/13 Franco Zeffirelli Wallops Recalcitrant Tenor Alagna in Interview

12/13 'Aïda's' Alagna tries to explain his 'mistake'

12/13 Stop the opera, I want to get off

12/13 Barenboim spearheads Warner new releases revival

12/12 Tanglewood Campus Damaged by Windstorm

12/12 Hofmannsthal's Heirs Sue for Royalties on Strauss Operas

12/12 Angela Gheorghiu Withdraws From Next Season's Don Carlos at Covent Garden

12/12 Testy tenor may sue La Scala

12/12 No return to Aida for scorned tenor: La Scala

12/12 In pictures: Zeffirelli's Aida

12/12 "Mozart New Edition" Now Online For Free

12/11 Tenor storms off stage after being booed

12/11 LA Opera Receives Recovered Voices Gift

12/10 The conductor's life

12/8 Doomed donkey becomes opera star

12/8 Berlin Opera House Loses 'Muhammad' Head

12/8 Redskins Owner Set to Buy DC's Last Classical Station

12/7 Music lessons for care children

12/7 Onto the sub-continent

12/6 Andreas Delfs to Step Down as Milwaukee Symphony Music Director

12/5 New York Drops Off the List Of 'Big Five' Orchestras

12/5 Pavarotti appearance canceled, media cites health

12/4 Zubin Mehta Receives 2006 Kennedy Center Honors

12/3 Grant Llewellyn: A glowing future

12/3 Cell phones are a turn-off at orchestra

12/1 Chicago Symphony Launches Its Own Recording Label and Returns to Radio

12/1 Pavarotti to accept Donizetti Prize

12/1 Teacher wins prize to conduct orchestra

11/30 Proposed Philharmonic Candidate Is Flattered, if Coy (reg. req'd)

11/30 Boston Symphony Orchestra Announces First International Tour with James Levine

11/29 Unprompted, Lorin Maazel Nominates His Successor (reg. req'd)

11/29 Obituary - Robert McFerrin Sr.; Was First Black Man to Sing With the Met

11/28 New World Symphony Asks Miami Beach for $15 Million

11/28 New Project to Send Musicians Into Schools (reg. req'd)

11/28 Tenor Placido Domingo lends his voice to hearing-impaired; global effort begins in January

11/28 Cello bow breaks world record

11/28 Boston Pops Principal Guest Conductor Dismissed

11/28 String Theory: New Approaches to Instrument Design (reg. req'd)

11/28 Pianist Lang Lang becomes Hong Kong resident

11/28 Internet Retailer ArkivMusic Offers Burn-to-Order CDs of Out-of-Print Recordings

11/27 North Carolina Symphony Extends Llewellyn's Contract

11/26 Bono is a 'modern Beethoven'

11/25 Conductor Kurt Masur straddles two podiums

11/23 Daniel Barenboim Receives Award From Berlin's Jewish Museum

11/21 Renee Fleming juggles to keep it all together

11/21 Japanese Musician Develops Laser Koto

11/19 You Have to Pull a Few Strings to Create These New Opera Stars (reg. req'd)

11/18 Thai opera in 'bad luck' threats

11/18 Classical Ticket Prices in South Korea Skyrocket

11/17 Arts essential to economic growth?

11/17 Singing roles in "Messiah" for sale on eBay

11/17 Don't mock: art really does help heal the sick

11/17 Keith Lockhart to Depart Utah Symphony Podium in 2009

11/17 London music on a high as Philharmonia lures Salonen

11/16 Tickets for Metropolitan Opera's High-Definition Movie Theater Simulcasts to Go on Sale 11/18

11/16 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Musicians Get 21 Percent Pay Raise

11/16 Eschenbach talks of a 'time bomb'

11/14 Turkish State Opera and Ballet Warns Female Musicians Not to Show Cleavage

11/14 Previously unknown Froberger manuscript up for auction

11/14 Scottish Government Prepares to Abolish Arts Council and Fund Performing Companies Directly

11/13 NEA Berates Public Radio for Abandoning Classical Music

11/13 Soprano Dawn Upshaw Diagnosed With Early-Stage Breast Cancer

11/13 Mstislav Rostropovich, in Better Health, Returns to Podium This Week

11/12 25 to Life, With Time Off for Puccini (reg. req'd)

11/10 Agnieszka Holland's film Copying Beethoven opens to (mostly) good reviews

11/9 Mahler family gets back looted Munch masterpiece after 53-year battle

11/7 Cast of Met's New Barber of Seville to Perform on Late Show With David Letterman

11/7 Interview: Ed Harris Talks About Becoming Beethoven

11/7 Prokofiev diaries are published

11/6 Tennessee Tech ensemble marks 40 years of touting, tooting tuba

11/6 Pianist Stephen Kovacevich Dismissed From His First Opera Conducting Engagement

11/6 The diva, the director and a fight at the Russian opera

11/5 German Muslim leader rejects invitation to controversial opera

11/5 Carolyn Kuan: Conducting her destiny

11/5 Helene Grimaud: A Pianist Harmonizes With Wolves (reg. req'd.)

11/4 Chicago's Grant Park Orchestra to Give Benefit for Cancer-Stricken Violinist Without Health Insurance

11/2 Survey finds a decline in attendance for the arts

11/2 Musica Antiqua Köln Begins Final US Tour Before Disbanding

10/31 Riccardo Muti Cancels Conducting Appearances in Philadelphia and Chicago

10/31 Leonard Slatkin Joins Indiana University School of Music Faculty

10/30 1906 Boston Symphony Recording Surfaces

10/27 Mozart Opera Rescheduled in Berlin

10/26 Tenor Sings With Arm in Sling

10/25 Nigel Kennedy Breaks Arm in Bicycle Accident

10/25 Woman With Pianist's Papers Is Convicted of Misdemeanors (reg. req'd)

10/25 Requiem for a Store's Dying Classical Department (reg. req'd)

10/23 Rostropovich Withdraws From National Symphony's Upcoming Shostakovich Mini-Festival

10/22 Vivaldi, the sex-obsessed rock star

10/20 Christoph Eschenbach to Leave Philadelphia Orchestra After 2007-08 Season

10/20 Films About Glenn Gould Arrive, Providing a Path Into the Mind of a Musician (reg. req'd.)

10/20 Q&A: Iván Fischer

10/20 Opening arguments to begin in recovered Glenn Gould artifacts trial

10/19 Photo Journal: Carnival Center, Designed by Cesar Pelli, Opens in Miami

10/19 Deborah Voigt: Turning Point

10/18 Marcelo Alvarez: The Accidental Opera Singer

10/18 San Francisco Bomb Squad Called to Davies Symphony Hall

10/17 Soprano Ruth Ann Swenson Diagnosed with Breast Cancer; Will Undergo Surgery, Chemotherapy Treatment

10/17 Q&A with Daniel Barenboim

10/16 Sting makes lute popular again

10/15 How to Get to Carnegie Hall? First, Find a Car That Fits the Harp (reg. req'd.)

10/14 Vandalism, threats strike sour note in Seattle Symphony Orchestra

10/13 Carry-On Luggage Restrictions Lead to Broken Arm for Jazz Trumpeter

10/13 The discreet charm of Leif Ove Andsnes

10/13 Conductor tries to attract young black people with orchestra

10/12 Seiji Ozawa Withdraws From Paris Concerts for Health Reasons

10/11 Canada Post to Release Stamps of Greatest Canadian Opera Singers

10/10 Ill health 'the norm' among artists

10/10 The Top Ten European Orchestras, According to Ten European Media Outlets

10/10 White Stripes go classical at Royal Opera House

10/9 Operas for $20? New Audiences Hear Siren Song (reg. req'd)

10/8 Log on, Learn to Play (Without Reading a Note) (reg. req'd)

10/6 Callas takes centre stage again as exhibition recalls Onassis's life

10/5 Opera funds cast of 60 with 'sponsor a character' scheme

10/4 White Stripes Meets Classical On 'Aluminium'

10/3 Musical robot composes, performs and teaches

10/3 Japan's prince finds Australia has culture

10/3 Metropolitan Opera Offers $100 Orchestra Seats for $20

10/3 Banned Mozart opera may go ahead 'with extra security'

10/3 Andrew Davis Will Not Renew Contract as Pittsburgh Symphony's Artistic Advisor

10/1 Placido Domingo to write book on opera

10/1 Sound Factory: The Making of a Steinway Grand Piano (reg. req'd)

9/29 Nigel Kennedy: 'If you need a pillock, call me'

9/29 Opera House Hints 'Idomeneo' Might Go On

9/28 Classical music buyers embrace the iPod age

9/28 2006 Gramophone Awards announced

9/28 And the Orchestra Plays on, Echoing Iraq’s Struggles (reg. req'd)

9/28 Two Violinists, Cellist Win Use of Strads in Canada Council Competition

9/27 Merkel warns on bowing to radicals

9/27 Opera Canceled Over a Depiction of Muhammad (reg. req'd)

9/27 UK Conductor to Face Assault Trial

9/26 The fat lady slims

9/25 Shostakovich widow wants row to end

9/25 Eroica Trio Names New Violinist

9/24 Film composer Malcom Arnold dies at 84

9/22 Yo-Yo Ma Designated UN Messenger for Peace by Kofi Annan

9/22 Mariss Jansons and Bavarian Radio Symphony to Make First US Tour Together in November

9/21 Cell phone concerto may be music to your ears

9/20 Armin Jordan, 74, Swiss Conductor and Former Director of Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Has Died

9/20 Music training boosts the brain

9/20 Sirius to launch Metropolitan Opera channel

9/20 Canadian Opera Company's Inaugural Ring Cycle Plagued by Ailing Singers

9/18 Prisoners hit high note with Puccini project

9/17 If Mozart Had Had Better Health Care (reg. req'd)

9/15 Metropolitan Opera to Broadcast Season-Opening Performance of Butterfly into Times Square

9/15 Study: One in Four Classical Lovers Like Cannabis; Opera Fans Prefer Mushrooms

9/15 Terfel Promotes Disc Using London Taxi

9/14 Longtime Chicago Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster to Retire

9/14 Marilyn Horne Receives Honorary Doctorate From Manhattan School of Music

9/14 New York Philharmonic Opens 165th Season

9/13 The Oldest Opera House in the Americas Celebrates 150 Years

9/13 Georg Solti Conductors' Competition Has First Female Winner

9/12 Fame academy

9/11 'Next year, concerto for laptop'

9/9 Daughter's death news kept from conductor

9/8 Super conductors

9/7 The Kennedy Center Honor Roll: Five A+ Achievers

9/7 Met to Broadcast Live Performances into Movie Theaters/Stream Performances Over Internet Radio

9/7 Detroit Symphony opens its season, extends contract

9/6 ENO lures new crowd with Gaddafi, the hip-hop opera

9/6 Kent Nagano Launches His Tenure as Montreal Symphony's Music Director

9/6 Director vanishes after spat with conductor at the Royal Opera House

9/6 Q&A with the 'Voice of the Violin' Joshua Bell

9/5 Eva Knardahl, Norwegian Pianist and TV Personality, Dies at 79

9/4 What I did on my holidays

9/4 BBC Prom Concert by Philadelphia Orchestra Cancelled Due to Fire

9/1 Airline destroys $13,800 viola

9/1 British Orchestras: these are the champions

8/31 A Game of Haydn Seek

8/31 Music on the move: Transporting Pittsburgh Symphony is like maneuvering an army

8/31 Previously unknown Bach work discovered

8/30 Too much of a good thing

8/29 Orchestras Are Thriving

8/28 Wolfgang Sawallisch Confirms His Retirement From the Podium

8/27 The operatic life of Mozart's librettist

8/27 It's only baroque'n'roll... a star is born on the web

8/24 Leonard Slatkin Hired as Musical Adviser

8/24 Bono visits old pal Pavarotti

8/24 Lloyd-Webber concert chaos

8/23 Austrian Scientist Develops Software to Imitate Orchestra

8/23 New Beethoven Symphony Cycle to Be Recorded by Virtual Ensemble: The Fauxharmonic Orchestra

8/22 A Virtual Orchestra You Can Sit On Outside London's Royal Festival Hall

8/20 Andre Previn ends fifth marriage

8/20 Virtual virtuoso takes a bow

8/18 Cleveland Orchestra Travels to Miami for Acoustic Tune-Up of Carnival Center's New Concert Hall