New York Philharmonic News

Mimi Sheraton will host a series of dinners beginning early next year that combine a concert by the New York Philharmonic and a meal prepared by such chefs as Alain Ducasse, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Lidia Bastianich, and Daniel Boulud.

Wanted: Riccardo Muti, above in 2008, showed why he's in demand Saturday at the Kennedy Center.

Thomas Jostlein's visit to North Korea was like a trip down the geopolitical rabbit hole.

When the news came in May 2008 that Riccardo Muti , who had resisted entreaties from the New York Philharmonic to become its music director, had accepted the directorship of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra , many Philharmonic musicians went public with their bruised feelings.

Philharmonic orchestras on both American coasts have new music directors this fall: the exuberant Venezuelan Gustavo Dudamel, 28, in Los Angeles and the cerebral Alan Gilbert in New York.

BOOTLEG FILES 309: 'General Electric Theater: Judy Garland' . LAST SEEN: Available on YouTube.

During her five years as assistant and then associate conductor of the New York Philharmonic , Xian Zhang proved a substantial musician with an energetic technique and a lively interpretive spirit.

Last month, New York's public radio station WNYC hosted what it billed as a Los Angeles-versus-New York conductor "smackdown." On one side, a controversial British music critic went to bat for Gustavo Dudamel, the Los Angeles Philharmonic's effervescent 28-year-old music director.

The Estes Park Music Festival will present an exciting new addition to the Music Festival Winter Series featuring Jerilyn Jorgenson, violinist and Cullan Bryant on piano.

Pianist Leon Fleisher's recovery from a neurological disorder has been compared to cyclist's Lance Armstrong's triumph over cancer.

Steven Reineke will make his debut as the principal pops conductor with the Long Beach Symphony, Saturday, in a concert featuring one of his own compositions.

The public face of American orchestral music changed radically this autumn. For the first time, conductors from ethnic minorities have taken the helm at two of the country's most important ensembles.

The Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, founded in 1841, is just a year older than the New York Philharmonic , but with its avowed specialty - music of the Viennese Classical era - this ensemble makes the conservative Philharmonic look like a wild-eyed new-music band.

By all rights the concert the New York Philharmonic presented at Avery Fisher Hall on Friday night could have been a drowsy walk-through. After all it was not supposed to happen.

Leonard Bernstein was larger than life - conductor , Broadway composer and TV pioneer whose long-running Young People's Concerts helped make him one of the 20th century's most eminent, visible and irresistible musical talents and communicators.

Thomas Hampson to Make Debut as NY Philharmonic's Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence 11/5, 11/7, 11/10 Thursday, October 29, 2009; Posted: 12:10 PM - by BWW News Desk Baritone Thomas Hampson will give his first performances as the New York Philharmonic 's Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence when he joins the Orchestra, led by ...

A new chamber music series will begin its inaugural season on Saturday, Nov. 7, at 8 p.m. at Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale, 475 W. 250th St.

Classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein is so chill even after gorgeously playing two lively, emotive solo pieces the morning of Oct.

ABU DHABI // A sell-out crowd at the Emirates Palace hotel gave the New York Philharmonic a six-minute standing ovation last night as it made its debut in the capital on the first night of the Abu Dhabi Classics season.

The Dallas Symphony Association announced today that the orchestra and Music Director Jaap van Zweden have agreed to extend his current four-year contract through the 2015-2016 season.