Classical News

Based on Professor Richard Greene's excellent site, " Classical Music Recordings of Black Composers ", " Black Composers - Scores " provides links of composers' names to library holdings of scores of Black composers of classical music.

Born in a tiny town in Pennsylvania, Vanessa Carlton was listening to music before she was born, as her mother played various classical pieces on the family piano.

A selection of Canada's best classical musicians is coming to the Comox Valley this month to perform two gala virtuoso performances.

Popular culture and classical music have had different sorts of relationships over the years.

It's clear that Michael Jackson's music can still sell. Two weeks after his death, Jackson's songs still occupied five out of the 10 slots on iTunes best selling singles chart.

Freshman colts step out in NJSS at Meadowlands Thursday, July 09, 2009 - from the Meadowlands Publicity Department East Rutherford, NJ --- Break The Bank K exploded out of the gate, took control right before the quarter pole and broke away to a 5-1/2 length lead to take the first of three divisions of the $98,800 New Jersey Sire Stakes for ...

The New York Philharmonic is headed to Cuba to explore the communist nation after being invited to perform there in the fall.

The 2009 Festival Celebration Series, the 40th consecutive summer music festival presented by Shippensburg University, features soloists who are household names to those of us who are fans of classical music recordings and performance.

Here's an unexpected bit of news about the late, much-lamented Michael Jackson. In a recent Guardian article , David Michael Frank, a Baltimore-born composer who studied at Peabody and has been based in California since the late 1970s, says that Jackson was interested in writing classical music and had started on some pieces.

Richard Wagner is the classical composer most associated with the Nazis, but it was Johann Sebastian Bach whom the party dubbed "the most German of Germans" and whose music was played at rallies to stir up nationalist zeal.

CCM Alumnus and Cincinnati Opera Stage Director Jose Maria Condemi talks about his vision for 'Ainadamar'. We posed the following questions: 1. We are quite fortunate, here in Cincinnati, to see 'Ainadamar.' After all, the opera was composed only in 2003 with some revisions.

Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii has become the latest star on the classical music scene after winning one of the world's most prestigious awards, but the blind 20-year-old has no need for a score.

Music in the Park returns to the resort this month for a two-day music extravaganza! The event, on Friday and Saturday, July 24 and 25 will see the incredible Magic of Motown tribute concert with Mamma Mia! The Abba Magic concert show and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra take to the stage in the beautiful surroundings of Victoria Park.

Kendzia grew up in West Germany and studied piano and flute from the age of 5. While earning a degree in music education from Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, he studied with Rolf Bissinger, flutist for the Frankfurt Opera Orchestra, and piano with Matitjahu Kellig, known for his interpretations of Wolfgang Mozart's ...

'ALL festivals stand and fall by their first year. There's always a chance they'll go on, but you can never be too sure." These words were spoken with well-earned smugness by East Neuk Festival director Svend Brown on Sunday at a private function to mark the final day of this year's event, the most imaginatively programmed in its glowing five-year ...

Free music and education events are available in Colorado's Vail Valley through the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival.

A missing angel is returning to a New York City cemetery. Five sculptors have been chosen to submit designs for a new "Angel of Music" at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery.

The previously announced Paris production of A Little Night Music starring Kristin Scott Thomas will have a five-night run at Theatre du Chatelet, February 15-20, 2010, according to Variety .

THEY BE ILLIN': "You could say we're a pop group," says Il Divo's Carlos Marin. From left are Marin, Sebastien Izambard, David Miller and Urs Buhler.A PREVIEW: A Il Divo A When: 7:30 p.m. Monday, July 6. Where: Cleveland State Univesity's Wolstein Center, 2000 Prospect Ave., Cleveland.

"Top award in classical music goes to Faz l Say ISTANBUL - Turkey's internationally known pianist and composer Faz l Say has received his second prestigious Echo Award, this one in the 'Best Chamber Music' category for a self-titled album he recorded with Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja.