Mozart News

Whether we're listening to Bach or the blues, our brains are wired to make music-color connections depending on how the melodies make us feel, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley.

The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival, under the artistic direction of flutist Linda Chesis, celebrates its fifteenth anniversary season with a diverse offering of musical experiences.

"When I was around 3 or 4, I was always playing with my mother's old upright piano at home just for fun by myself." Piano lessons began at 5 - and improvisation and even composition at 6. Sakata's interest in classical music began when he was 9, and he says it has grown daily since.

After a sold-out premiere in November 2012 at Dixon Place, Figaro! returns for a limited run between June 11 and 16, 2013.

The MET Orchestra concludes its 2012-2013 season at Carnegie Hall with the much anticipated return of Music Director James Levine leading the orchestra today, May 19 at 3:00 p.m. in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage.

The Diamond Valley Community Orchestra, formerly known as the Golden Eagle Orchestra, performs Sunday, May 19, at Mt.

"You can call it comfort food, if you like," said music director and conductor Frank Fetta about the program for the May 18 season finale concert of the San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra.

"Music for Film and Theater" by the Elmhurst Symphony String Ensemble is the final concert of the season for performances held at Mayslake Peabody Estate in Oak Brook.

Scientists call it synesthesia , a neurological the way your emotions can color the music that you hear.

Friday and Sunday: For violinist Thomas Zehetmair's second weekend with the SPCO during its month of post-lockout concerts, he brings his wife and frequent collaborator, violist Ruth Killius.

Organized by the International Dvorak Society, the American Spring music festival annually brings internationally renowned soloists and music ensembles to a broad audience in the Czech Republic, with concerts and master classes taking place in dozens of towns and villages around the country.

One reliable sign of spring is the annual programming of preview concerts for the Midsummer Mozart Festival , whose Music Director is George Cleve, in the Noontime Concerts a series at Old St.

Ostensibly a polishing of the original, the final Kirkpatrick edition of Ives' "Concord" Sonata featured on this excellent recording actually conveys the opposite effect.

It is a known fact that no conductor can ever interpret/perform a work precisely the way a composer imagined it.

Actors are taught to act and opera singers are taught to sing - and all too rarely do the twain really meet.

Decades have passed since wunderkind Evgeny Kissin fascinated crowds all over the world with his dazzling virtuosity and the passion of his music.

Tchaikovsky worshiped Mozart, whom he claimed not merely to like but to "adore and idolize." Nevertheless, though their music does share a sovereign clarity of texture, he didn't often write like his idol.

Orchestra of St. Luke 's will conclude its long-running Orchestra Series with Nicholas McGegan conducting the orchestra for the first time at Carnegie Hall .

'Pop Rocks!' will feature performances by the Salisbury University Opera Workshop, Salisbury Pops, Salisbury University Jazz Ensemble and Salisbury Symphony Orchestra.

The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra played its first official concert in almost seven months, after signing a three-year contract.