Classical News

I am going to attempt this March, during International Woman's Month, to post a diary every Thursday highlighting important female contributors to the world of classical music.

A SNUG one-bedroom flat near Manhattan's Central Park serves as home and studio to Maria Schneider, composer and bandleader.

An old friend of Elaine Stritch recalls meeting the actress, a recovering alcoholic, at an AA meeting.

In this June 9, 2013 file photo, Laura Osnes arrives on the red carpet at the 67th Annual Tony Awards, in New York.

One of Philly's finest musicians, Andrew Lipke put on a phenomenal free show last past Sunday afternoon, wowing a receptive crowd at the Burlington County Library Auditorium in Westampton, N.J. Backed by both his rock band The Prospects and his classical accompanists The Azrael String Quartet, the first in a series of spring Sundays on Stage shows, ... (more)

Tenor Alexander Aldren from Penn took part in auditions for a performance of Stephen Sondheim's Broadway smash hit Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

If the Menuhin Competition is like the Olympics for the violin, then the Gala Concert with the Cleveland Orchestra on Sunday provided all the fireworks of the closing ceremony.

Spoiler alert: In the third act of "Wozzeck," which opens at the Metropolitan Opera on Thursday, the deeply tormented title character plunges a knife into the chest of Marie, his common-law wife and the mother of his child.

In fact, internationally-renowned, New York-based Canadian musician Julian Milkis - who appears in concert with pianist Eugene Skovorodnikov at 3 p.m. this Sunday , at White Rock's First United Church, 15385 Semiahmoo Ave. - is the only one who can make the claim.

This is the first time the two have performed together with the Minnesota Orchestra.

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa has announced her cameo in La Fille du Regiment at London's Royal Opera House will be her last.

Festival fun will soon be descending upon the city and county as the Norfolk and Norwich Festival reveals its 2014 line-up of weird and wonderful acts.

Critically acclaimed violinist Viviane Hagner makes her debut with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra this month, with a concert in Surrey.

MORE than 550 young musicians and singers raised the roof of the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff when they performed at a gala concert to launch the 400th anniversary celebrations of one of Britain's oldest schools.

Charles Burke's final concert as conductor of the Civic Orchestra will be Thursday at Orchestra Hall.

No major American orchestra has championed African-American composers and performers more aggressively than the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, whose commitment to the cause dates back to its contributions to the landmark Black Composers Series for Columbia Records in the 1970s.

Chatter and laughter filled the Knuth Hall theatre as musicians tuned their instruments for a night of classical music during the 50th anniversary of the Frank V. de Bellis collection.

Friday, March 7, 8:30 p.m. on VPT Sunday, March 9, 5:30 p.m. on VPT Monday, March 10, 12:30 a.m. on VPT From the romantic mood of Beethoven's 'Moonlight Sonata' to the dramatic emotions of Orff's 'O Fortuna', Classical Rewind visits the greatest compositions and composers of all time.

Next time you're at Grandma's house: crack open that piano bench. You might find a volume or two of Bela Bartok's "Mikrokosmos," a collection of 153 piano pieces composed between 1926-1939.

In this undated photo provided by the St. Louis Symphony is music director David Robertson.