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One of Britain's leading conductors has been honoured by the Queen during a classical concert in London.

The real "Lion of Venice" here was Sir Colin Davis 80-something going on 40-something and every inch the commander in chief as the mighty storm at the outset of Verdi's Otello exploded from the Barbican platform.

The London Symphony Orchestra is coming to Warwick Arts Centre next Saturday for a special pre-Christmas gala concert.

For all the confidence and accomplishment of Jorg Widmann's music, there's something profoundly unsatisfying, almost trivial about it.

WINNER of the BBC Young Musician Competition in 1994, Natalie Clein has appeared as a soloist at the Proms.

This year, Halloween in London provided for a truly haunting pairing. That's haunting in the "beautiful! goosebumps!" sense and not the poltergeist one, and it's entirely due to the much-hyped union of the London Symphony Orchestra with Grizzly Bear at the Barbican Centre.

Grizzly Bear and London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, review This year's indie darlings reach new heights with the LSO Rating: * * * * * Posterboys for a certain strain of ambitious, symphonic pop: Grizzly Bear 'Does this feel as fancy for you as it does for us?' asked bassist Chris Taylor as he looked out across the auditorium of the ...

After twice headlining at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, a Dublin guitarist whose parents hail from Gaoth Dobhair is playing a series of acoustic concerts in Ireland before embarking on a tour of the UK.

My wife and I visited New York for several days, and this past Sunday, we went to Lincoln Center to hear Bernard Haitink conduct the London Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's Ninth Symphony.

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Note: Free Times editor Dan Cook is in New York City as part of an NEA fellowship program in arts journalism.

French feasts are high on the agenda of the London Symphony Orchestra this season: a strand of their programmes under their principal conductor, Valery Gergiev, is devoted to the world of music as seen by Henri Dutilleux, at 93 France's greatest living composer.

At first glance this programme of Mozart and Nielsen his volcanic 5th Symphony looked to be one of contrast more than progression, but in Sir Colin Davis' choice of Mozart the appetite here was definitely for drama.

London Symphony Orchestra, Usher Hall, Friday-Sunday **** Susan Bullock/Malcolm Martineau, Queens Hall, Tuesday **** The Monterverdi Choir/Orchestre Revolutionnaire Et Romantique, Usher Hall, Tuesday **** Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Charles Mackerras, Alfred Brendel, Usher Hall, Wednesday **** Mischa Maisky/Lily Maisky, Queens Hall, Thursday *** ...

In a society that so often tries to pretend there is no difference between high and low culture or that a classical based education is irrelevant, it is a joy to see BBC2 show a series like The Choir , a programme that unashamedly celebrates Culture and Music with capital letters.

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Grizzly Bear in London last month; Chris Taylor, Dan Rossen, Ed Drosle and Christopher Bear P op is no longer scared of classical music.

A blind woman in need said a contractor left her in the lurch when he built a wheelchair ramp that wasn't up to code.

Among this year's bonanza of musical anniversaries, what would have been Alfred Schnittke's 75th birthday has so far passed almost unnoticed.

A unique collection of some of the world's top classical musicians will gather in Krakow, Poland, on September 1 for a special performance under the baton of Russian maestro Valery Gergiev to mark the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II.