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SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Violinist David Harrington remembers being 14 years old, already a well-formed music fanatic, staring at a globe of the world "and realizing at that moment," he says, "that all the string quartet music I knew was written by four guys who lived in the same city, and that seemed absurd."

Demi Lovato opened up about her drug use with Access Hollywood, revealing that she was so addicted to cocaine, she would sneak the drug onto airplanes.

Let's look at alternative strategies for a moment. For instance, classical music could finesses its current audience instead of chasing the mythical monolithic / young / hip / rock loving / vibrant / technically literate / affluent 'new' audience .

Classical Action: Performing Arts Against AIDS continues its 2013-14 Michael Palm Series of benefit house concerts in New York City with an intimate performance by rising-star soprano Angela Meade tonight, December 12. The event - held at the magnificent TriBeCa loft of Simon Yates and Kevin Roon - begins with wine and hors d'oeuvres at 6:30 p.m., ... (more)

Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter will make her New York Philharmonic debut in Mary Chapin Carpenter with the New York Philharmonic and Special Guests, a retrospective program featuring songs from throughout her career, some newly arranged for orchestra.

SCOOTER MacMILLAN/Special to the Ledger-EnquirerSome of the items in the Springer Opera House Emporium includes snowman drinking cups for children and sweatshirts.

Prominent violinist Leonidas Kavakos has been nominated for a classical Grammy in the best chamber music/small ensemble performance category.

Musicians at the sharp end of classical music report to executive staff who are in turn accountable to management bodies variously termed boards, councils etc.

World renown composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has officially confirmed a feature film adaptation of his celebrated Biblically-themed musical JOSEPH & THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT is on the fast-track for a feature film adaptation.

More than 7,000 people turned out for a free Minnesota Orchestra performance, conducted by Manny Laureano, at the Lake Harriet Bandshell Sept.

On this very day in music, we lost a legend. Ravi Shankar, often referred to by the title Pandit, was an Indian musician and composer who played the sitar.

Leighton Meester is set to make her Broadway debut next year in a production of Of Mice and Men, The Associated Press reports.

Officials said Tuesday that Deborah Rutter, who is currently head of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, will become the Kennedy Center's president in September.

Distinguished Concerts International New York unveils its 2014 season of joyful, inspiring and moving music, featuring numerous world and US premieres, world-class musicians at New York's most prestigious venues, and singers from across America and the globe.

The blaze of glory launching Bach's Christmas Oratorio is a High Baroque spine-tingler.

Pop starlets like Miley Cyrus and Lady Gaga demonstrated in 2013 that they find it empowering to flaunt their sexuality, but singer Charlotte Church feels differently.

But in fact, 2013 has produced a bumper crop of quality musical boxed sets, as the capsule reviews of pop, roots, classical and jazz collections below reveal.

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The Berlin Philharmonic will open Carnegie Hall's 2014-15 season with four concerts in October and will give two performances of Bach's "St.

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