Classical News

On the list of gay and lesbian composers whose music is celebrated in the Austin Chamber Music Festival's annual Pride Concert, figures from the 20th and 21st centuries predominate which isn't surprising considering how recently Western culture has begun to remove the stigma around sexual orientation.

Malian native and Durham resident Mamadou Diabate took home a Grammy Award in 2009 for the Best Traditional World Music Album.

The King's Consort returns on disc to music by Henry Purcell, the composer whom the group has championed, across the world, for three decades.

The Cistercian ruins of a much loved abbey in Leeds are once again set to host an outdoor classical musical event to remember.

The Jasper String Quartet will perform Saturday, July 12, at 8 p.m. in New Lebanon, N.Y., as part of the Concerts at Tannery Pond series.

American Idol winner Diana DeGarmo, alonside husband and American Idol top 10 finalist Ace Young, bring their singing and acting to the Starlight Theatre stage from July 8-13 for Andrew Lloyd Webber's popular show, "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Drea American Idol winner Diana DeGarmo, alonside husband and American Idol top 10 finalist Ace ... (more)

The sartorial get-up of the Canadian Brass -- tuxedoes and white running shoes -- fairly sum up the approach of this ensemble to their craft.

The Brighton Center for the Performing Arts was one of four Metro Detroit venues selected for a free DSO concert in October.

Greene, who lives near Melksham, was returning to action for his first race in just under a year after injury problems and finished in 49.89 seconds in Budapest.

For centuries, Vienna was the glittering capital of a great empire where the potential sponsorship of the Habsburg dynasty and many of the aristocrats at the imperial court created an excellent environment for musicians and artists.

Internationally recognized stage and screen star John Barrowman is set to release his seventh studio album today, a new collection of material titled YOU RAISE ME UP, and it is now available to order in digital and physical form via iTunes and Amazon, respectively.

Many international musicians arrive in Oxford this October to take part in The Schubert Project - the UK's first complete performance of Schubert's songs, and a world first in the scope of a single festival.

Andrew Lloyd Webber is eyeing a movie adaptation of his musical Cats after confirming the show will return to London's West End later this year .

Charlotte Church may have made millions as a child star - but she says that she will have to work for the rest of her life.

David Aaron Carpenter To Launch Central Synagogue's International Concerts Series, tonight, July 8th- London debut for 'the hottest violist of the 21st century' and his Salom Chamber Orchestra soloists, with Music Of The Jewish Diaspora.

The proposed project, depicted here in an artist's rendering, would restore some of the downtown structure's original exterior features and expand to the left.

In total, 3,500 tickets are being given away for the full symphonic concerts at Pier Approach on August 9. Both concerts will be performed by Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Maxime Tortelier, Leverhulme Young Conductor in Association with the BSO.

On July 3, the Miami Summer Music Festival presented the third opera of their opening season with Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro" at the Wertheim Performing Arts Center at Florida International University.

Colorado's teen birth rate dropped 40 percent in five years-years during which a donor-funded initiative provided 30,000 free or low-cost contraceptive devices to low-income women: The decline in births among girls 15 to 19 years old served by the program accounted for three-quarters of the overall decline in the Colorado teen birth rate, the state ... (more)

Modest Mussorgsky's musical masterpiece, "Pictures at an Exhibition," has provided dozens of composers and arrangers with an array of source material since its origin in 1874.