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Late Clayton resident Joe Kleeman is being remembered for his efforts to increase the diversity of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra , the St.

Singing daily with his parents and nine siblings would have given Urs Steiner a cozy "Sound of Music" feeling, except for one small problem.

Kenneth Dewalt of the Bar-Keys gets his trombone warmed up before performing at the 2012 Sunset Symphony.

The proposed deal between the Palm Beach Symphony and Juilliard School to set up short-term residencies next season has collapsed after the school yielded to protests from the symphony's freelance musicians.

While most spectators at the Charleston Symphony Orchestra's Piccolo Spoleto Custom House Concert left pleased, Ralph Hurley walked away with a particularly huge smile on his face.

One Sweet Morning, a co-commissioned symphony by China and U.S. philharmonics to mark the 10th anniversary of 9/11, staged its Asian debut in Shanghai on Saturday -- calling for peace and harmony.

One swallow may not make a summer, as the saying goes, but maybe two successive sightings of Shostakovich's Sixth Symphony portend a shift in the fortunes of this wonderful and undervalued piece? Hey, a guy can dream.

The Utah Symphony orchestra is on the verge of completing its ambitious Beethoven experiment.

In 1942, Frances Darger, then 17, got a part-time job playing with a new music group.

The San Francisco Symphony is joining forces with the New World Symphony and the music publisher Boosey & Hawkes in a venture to offer both commissions and professional guidance to emerging composers.

Speaking of bizarre exchanges, remember that Russian-born principal cellist from the Beijing Symphony Orchestra who got into it with a random female passenger on a Chinese train last week? He's been fired, according to a statement published on the orchestra's website.

Turkey's state-run news agency says a prosecutor has proposed charging an internationally known Turkish pianist and composer with insulting Islamic religious values in comments he made on Twitter.

The first of two Summer Serenade concerts Thursday night drew on the Alabama Symphony 's classical and early romantic strengths, while luxuriating in new acoustical surroundings.

Beethoven's Ninth, never too far from earshot in Baltimore, is back this week, but with a most welcome companion piece -- Bruckner's "Te Deum." And the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has a most welcome companion to conduct this pairing -- Peter Oundjian, who made a memorable appearance with the ensemble in 2009 and is generating telling results ... (more)

In this wild video, programmers Denys Sanz andA Marco Domenichetti create harmony by synchronizingA various electronic devices over Wi-Fi with Max For Live, 'a visual programming environment that allows users to build instruments and effects for use within Ableton Live.' Each 'player' in the orchestra, including the projection-mapped coffee maker, ... (more)

Bonnie Bernhardt barely had time to lick her first stamp as board president of the Vallejo Symphony Orchestra four years ago when the economy slammed into a brick wall.

David Robertson, the music director of the St. Louis Symphony, has taken on a position on the other side of the world, becoming artistic director and chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony in Australia starting in 2014.

JoAnn Falletta, Virginia Symphony music director, will conduct performances of Mahler's Eighth Symphony May 26 in Williamsburg and May 27 in Norfolk The Virginia Arts Festival doesn't regularly advertise in The New York Times .

Bonnie Raitt, here in 2008, says of her new album: 'I waited until I was really ready.' Whether touring, winning Grammys or fighting for the rights of music veterans, singer and guitarist Bonnie Raitt has always had plenty to keep her busy.

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