Classical News

The annual Independence Day sing-along concert at the Washington National Cathedral is being held Saturday at 11 a.m. WJLA anchor Doug McKelway will emcee the concert, which features Cathedral organists Scott Dettra and Christopher Jacobson.

Cookie Monster is planning to bake 233 cookies for America's birthday celebration on Saturday -- one for each year.

About 4,900 Jehovah's Witnesses from west Georgia, east Alabama and north Florida are meeting in Columbus this weekend.

Summer has come. London has the Proms Festival from mid July to mid September, while the Berlin Philharmonic ends its season with an open-air concert on the Waldbuhne stage in the capital's forests.

IT'S WELL KNOWN that Austrian-born Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart exhibited astonishing musical ability during very early childhood.

Like a rock band touring to promote a CD, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra is planning a movable release party in Florida next February to launch its forthcoming CD of Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony.

Michael Jackson had several classical music compositions in the works, according to composer David Michael Frank, including one that existed only in his head Michael Jackson performing at Vienna's Ernst Happel stadium as part of the HIStory tour.

Simon Cowell didn't invent 'American Idol'' or how to be smug . However, Cowell did come up with Il Divo , which is a ''popera'' act.

Grizzly Bear have announced they will perform at the London Barbican with the London Symphony Orchestra on October 31st, NME.com reports.

The Cleveland Orchestra, under the direction of guest conductor Loras John Schissel, will perform its 20th annual free Star-Spangled Spectacular community concert tonight on Public Square in downtown Cleveland.

Thames Philharmonic Choir performs its summer concert on July 11in the Barn Church, Atwood Avenue, Kew.

Assessing a nation's competitiveness is a complex job. It involves more than economic power, military might and diplomacy.

Summer is the season when classical musicians traditionally rusticate and play concerts in resort communities in northern New Hampshire and western Maine, and this year six classical music festivals and concert series in the two-state region beckon listeners from the Mount Washington Valley.

TANGLEWOOD The Juilliard Quartet takes the Ozawa stage today with an all-Haydn program that features four of the Op.

The Menier Chocolate Factory 's production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler 's A Little Night Music, which transferred to the West End in March, will now complete its run at the Garrick Theatre on 25 July as originally announced.

Performances of Handel's choral music tend to focus on Messiah, perhaps his most popular work, together with renditions of Zadok The Priest.

ACCLAIMED concert pianist Richard Meyrick will perform at Boundstone Community College, in Boundstone Lane, Lancing.

Parents who shun medicine for their sick children and turn instead to religion for healing have embraced faiths like Pentecostalism, Christian Science and Jehovah's Witnesses for decades.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will perform two different repertoires for their Vail Valley double-header on March 16 and 17.

A Cathay ; Tourmaline: On the Loss of a Jewel ; Five Romances. Middleton After all the keyboard showpieces whipped into frenzies at the recent Cliburn Competition, this collection of pianistic intimacies from American composer Joseph Fennimore is balm to the ears.