Classical News

Amanda Banks announced Thursday she would ask Republican precinct committee members to select her as the temporary replacement for her husband, Sen. Jim Banks of Columbia City.

In the past when classical record sales were sluggish, industry luminaries such as Walter Legge and John Culshaw sorted things out by making legendary recordings such as the Giulini Verdi Requiem and the Solti Ring .

Composer and pianist Andrew Morris, along with young saxaphonist Theo Jobst and double bass player Sam Powell, will be taking on Edinburgh with Give Take - a performance of 10 musical remedy pieces of contemporary jazz with a classical edge.

Frank Zielhorst from the Netherlands will officially be the 2014 Leverhulme Young Conductor in Association, a key role at the BSO.

John Barrowman, Susan Boyle, Rod Stewart, Ewan McGregor and James McAvoy have helped open the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, in a ceremony which also involved the Loch Ness Monster and dancing Tunnock's teacakes.

The former Imax site will play host to the OnStage at Pier Approach programme, backed by Co Wheels Car Company and Bournemouth Borough Council , between Monday and August 24. The free events are in addition to the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra concerts on Saturday, August 9, for which a ticket ballot was held earlier this month.

Photo courtesy of Symphony Silicon Valley Target Summer Pops, the region's largest free music festival, kicks off July 26 at San Jose State University.

TWO local charities collaborated to create a music-making day for 17 children from the Ukraine affected by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster.

Thousands of athletes from 71 nations and territories are taking part before a 40,000-strong crowd and a global TV audience up up to one billion people.

A series of classical pop culture ads is bringing attention to the importance of live arts to younger generations.

Hey, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra is back at the Meadow Brook Music Festival to help its former summer home celebrate its 50th anniversary! It's only for one night, so don't blink or you'll miss it.

He first joined the newspaper in 1971 and was quickly recruited by its then music critic, the distinguished journalist and broadcaster Kenneth Loveland, to help out with reviewing a busy South Wales music scene.

Hector Berlioz's Les Troyens is a tale of one nation invading another on dubious grounds and the follies and tragedies of war that ensue.

Elaine Stritch, seen here in this September, 2012, file photo, won a Tony award for her one-woman show Elaine Stritch at Liberty.

Billy Joel , the regular guy from Long Island who insists he's not a very good piano player, will be the next recipient of the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song , the U.S. Library of Congress announced Tuesday.

A SHIPLEY musician who played with the area's best known brass bands before forging a successful career in London has been killed in a car crash.

This concert of Piano Quintets offered an opportunity to see several prized possessions of the Australian Chamber Orchestra's instrument catalogue.

JOSEPH and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat combined with The Jeremy Kyle Show for New Forest Primary School's latest production.

Kanye West has cleared up some rumours about what really went on during his wedding day and explained why wife Kim Kardashian is his "dinosaur".

Attention has been drawn by Norman Lebrecht to the poor ticket sales for Freiburg Opera performances of Parsifal and TannhA user this week at the Norwich Theatre Royal.