Gershwin News

"He has such a flourish about him, doesn't he?" That's Marin Alsop , speaking about Jean-Yves Thibaudet, the French pianist with the scintillant technique, refined musicality and really great clothes.

Crowd pleasers Graffiti Classics are making a welcome return to Louth. The musical quartet is renowned for its riotous mix of music, comedy and dancing, giving classical music a whole new meaning.

The Chinese-born, America-based pianist Xiayin Wang is receiving rave reviews for her new CD of the work of Alexander Scriabin.

In his 1999 memoir, -A Cure for Gravity: A Musical Pilgrimage, Joe Jackson writes approvingly of George Gershwin as a musician who kept one foot in the popular and one in the classical realms of music.

DreamWorks is tuning up a biopic on composer George Gershwin. Company has picked up a screenplay by "Memoirs of a Geisha" scribe Doug Wright about the iconic musician.

For frenziedly creative polymaths, the French may have Jean Cocteau, but the Jews have Belarus-born Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport, who wrote poems, fiction, ethnography and plays under the pen name S. An-sky . Of these, indubitably the most famous is An-sky's still-popular 1914 Russian play "The Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds," the story of a young bride ...

LANCASTER -- Classical music with a twist is how some people might describe the performances that professional pianist Rudolf Budginas gives his audiences.

Ian is dedicated to the promotion of jazz all over the world and to catching just a little piece of it for himself.

Michelle and Barack Obama sat one table over from J. Lo and Marc Anthony, and all four of them were rocking in their seats as Sheila E. shook the house - well, really the tent.

Published: Sunday, October 18, 2009 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 8:46 p.m. The Blue Ridge Performing Arts Center will present "Pianopalooza," four nights of piano concerts to wow and entertain the area's piano music lovers.

The Miss Clark County Outstanding Teen Pageant and Miss Clark County Pageant are today.

Harmonies will fill the Robert L. and Elizabeth S. Cole Auditorium at Richmond Community College as the a cappella group Chapter 6 performs at 3 p.m. on Oct.

The brilliant young pianist Xiayin Wang will be heard in recital on Friday evening, October 30th at 8 p.m. at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, 14 Shelton Cove Lane.

Both the Oregon Symphony and the Oregon Symphony Association in Salem, the group that brings the symphony to the capital, are grappling with the effects of the harsh economy.

Former Beach Boy Brian Wilson sings Sept. 30, 2004, in Minneapolis in support of Smile.

He plans to finish and record at least two such pieces on an album of Gershwin music he hopes to release next year.

Concert-goers new and old alike celebrated a golden anniversary Saturday night at the first concert of the Tulare County Symphony's 50th season.

FOR ITS opening concert of the season, the San Jose Chamber Music Society welcomes the Imani Winds to town.

A publication from the French general knowledge "Tu Sais..." book series , entitled "Tu Sais... Jazz," contains a final chapter on rock bands such as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.

An informal musical look at the brothers Gershwin, George & Ira will set the scene on Saturday, Oct.