Classical News

Top-selling jazz trumpeter Chris Botti will play The Music Hall in Portsmouth at 4 p.m. Sunday.

A relatively rare mixture of sound: a trio of piano, oboe, and bassoon, both pleased and entertained an audience at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Friday evening.

A musical collaborative formed by violinist Kate Hatmaker and flutist Demarre McGill six years ago, it comprises players from nearly every musical enterprise in San Diego, from the San Diego Symphony , to San Diego State University and UC San Diego, and it's made a practice of reaching beyond the usual suspects.

For the sixth consecutive year, Vermont Symphony Orchestra patrons donated to a food drive to benefit the Vermont Foodbank through the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf, the BROC Food Shelf, and the Our Place Drop-In Center.

Vicky Final and Luke Scannell, both Year 11 pupils at Rickstones Academy, are preparing to spend time working with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

With its stoic, kind-hearted heroine, bullied by ornery stepsisters, transformed by a Fairy Godmother and swept off her feet by a handsome prince, the story of Cinderella is not just the stuff of fairytale magic.

Andr Watts burst upon the music scene at age 16 when Leonard Bernstein chose him to debut with the New York Philharmonic in a nationwide Young People's Concerts broadcast.

Scott Matlock, left, plays Irish fiddle tunes as his wife, Laurie, accompanies on guitar on March 11, 2014.

The University of Georgia Performing Arts Center will present violinist Benjamin Beilman, a rising star on the classical music scene, in recital April 1 at 8 p.m. in Ramsey Concert Hall.

"My personal philosophy is that you make art to experience emotions that you don't have the luxury of experiencing in real life," says clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh .

Elaine Stritch, the legendary Broadway star, gets the reality TV treatment in "Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me," which follows the then-87-year-old actress as she prepares a musical revue, copes with diabetes, muses about old age, struggles with alcohol, watches herself on TV, lands in the hospital, hangs out with old friends and visits her childhood ... (more)

The highlight for Tuesday Musical's 2014-15 season, which the organization announced on March 10, will include the first ever joint venture between Tuesday Musical and The Akron Symphony Orchestra.

A larger than usual audience enjoyed Tuesday's lunchtime concert which featured Joanna Reveley accompanied by Simon Gilliver on the piano.

"Glee" star Lea Michele continues to jockey for position as junior Barbra-in-training with her new release, "Louder."

NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG announces its star-studded 2014 spring gala, Remembering Lenny , celebrating the life of Leonard Bernstein with a performance on Monday, April 28 at 6:30PM at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall , followed by supper at the '21' Club.

Pupils at St Mary's in Calne have helped to raise A 11,500 for The Armed Forces Fund by performing at an opera night in London last week.

At least two of the region's major orchestras will perform a toast to the 150th birthday of German composer Richard Strauss, while two local Bach-focused ensembles are toasting the 300th birthday of C.P.E. Bach, the son of the great German Johann Sebastian.

SAYING the word 'Stradivarius', the world's most famous brand of violin, in some circles, will earn you gasps of awe and wonder; possibly even lust.

On March 13, 1964, bar manager Catherine "Kitty" Genovese, 28, was stabbed to death near her Queens, N.Y. home; the case generated controversy over the supposed reluctance of Genovese's neighbors to respond to her cries for help.

The orchestra announced Wednesday that it will perform "Zodiac Tales" by Bright Sheng.