Classical News

By Ummi Nadiah Rosli KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 26 -- The opening notes of Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in d minor", can easily be misconstrued as the background music associated with scary movies.

ONE OF THE MOST pleasing sounds to the human ear is probably the human voice raised in song.

Jonathan Ansell, who won the heart of the nation as lead vocalist in X-Factor runners-up G4, has been cast in his musical debut, starring in Bill Kenwright 's production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber 's Whistle Down The Wind.

Music special, 9-11 p.m., ABC. ABC offers two concerts filmed this summer. First is Beyonce, in Las Vegas.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra will perform on Wednesday at the Save Mart Center. Paul O'Neill feels a little like Santa this year, finally delivering the gift Trans-Siberian Orchestra fans have so patiently waited years to get their hands on.

Today is Monday, Nov. 23, the 327th day of 2009. There are 38 days left in the year.

Commentator Miles Hoffman is back, making his traditional Morning Edition visit to talk turkey about classical music on Thanksgiving day.

CHRISTMAS came early to the Brighton Dome on Sunday when the Brighton Philharmonic season again broke new ground with a concert aimed at children of all ages, including Howard Blake's The Snowman.

We are the dinosaurs, marching, marching, We are the dinosaurs, whaddaya think of that? We are the dinosaurs, marching, marching, We are the dinosaurs, we make the Earth flat.

For Joseph Calleja, tenor from Malta with voice `like sunshine,' a star-making role at Met? NEW YORK - There's something about the honeyed sweetness of Joseph Calleja's voice that seems to evoke memories of a golden age, as if this young tenor carried within his vocal cords a secret passed down from bygone generations.

A father's struggle to come to terms with his son's disability and a biography of media baron William Randolph Hearst are among the nominees for Canada's richest non-fiction literary prize.

The singer/songwriter has claimed his second number one on the Billboard 200 chart with 286,000 opening-week sales.

Thanksgiving: parade on CBS, NBC; Beyonce, Paul McCartney on ABC; 'People of the Year' on NBC -- and priceless 'Cranford' Television offers treats from morning to night on Thanksgiving.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra music director Leonard Slatkin won't be back on the podium at Orchestra Hall until next year.

H.C. Robbins Landon, a musicologist noted for his pioneering research on Franz Joseph Haydn and for writing popular works on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, has died at age 83.

Winfrey saluted hero pilot Captain Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger III and the first responders who saved the lives of passengers after the flight was forced to crash land in the Hudson River, offshore from Manhattan in New York City in January .

DELTA Goodrem's impromptu performance at the private birthday party of an international hitmaker has finally won her the big break she needs to put her career on the map in the US.

Artist: Bieber, Justin Justin Bieber It seems Bieber fever has swept through Canada.

MOOOVE over Beethov-en - " cows at a dairy farm prefer the songs of X Factor stars John and Edward to the classics.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra is coming to the Colonial Life Arena on November 29th and WIS has announced the winners of our ticket giveaway! With the long awaited new album "Night Castle" on the verge of being released, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, one of rock music's biggest arena attractions, is on another monumental North American tour, playing more ...