Classical News

A Kingston student is poised for some international travel this summer and fall as he pursues his goal of becoming a music composer.

CONTRACTORS are in a race against time to ensure the new waterfront concert space will be ready to kick-start the summer events programme on June 29. Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra will play two free concerts at 4pm and 8pm on Saturday, June 29 to celebrate the opening of the open air space at Pier Approach and the end of the controversial Imax.

Nicholas Biniaz-Harris is a young American classical pianist who is more at home performing Bach, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff than the obscure works of Nazi concentration camp inmates.

Reilly Roberts plays saxophone during practice in Oregon for Thursday's SVM All-Star Classic at Sauk Valley Community College.

July 4th will come a day early at the Riverside National Cemetery, which will celebrate the holiday with its traditional annual concert at 6:30 p.m. July 3. The Concert for Heroes at 7:30 p.m. July 3 at the cemetery's amphitheater features the Riverside County Philharmonic Orchestra.

How I Met Your Mother star and awards show host favorite Neil Patrick Harris is returning to the Broadway stage for a revival of cult favorite Hedwig and the Angry Inch .

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Tenor David Pomeroy's star is still rising on the international opera stage but he traces an already acclaimed career back to Saturday mornings at his grandfather's house in St. John's, N.L. "He would sit at the piano and I would sing 'I Dream of Jeannie ' and these old songs," said Pomeroy.

The rioters had it right. That's not to excuse the outbreak of mass Philistinism that affected the otherwise cosmopolitan residents of Paris on May 29, 1913, when Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes presented the premiere of The Rite of Spring , with choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky and music by Igor Stravinsky.

A person has to be a bit of a risk taker, a lover of mostly modern and oft-times edgy classical music, willing to sit for hours in hard chairs or delight in the pleasures of a lawn yawn to appreciate the Ojai Music Festival .

Saturday's third-annual Heroes Gala, honoring longtime board member Barbara Van Dusen, raised more than $700,000 to benefit the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

Though he always felt something was pushing him toward acting, Lance Reddick ignored it.

Richard Clarke, 62, Christopher Wilson, 24, and Christopher Williams, 21, were due to appear before a jury later this month.

Worried Volunteers fear for the castles future and say the local council need to spend money to protect the castles future.

A PROGRAMME entitled A Midsummer Night's Music will be performed in the stunning gardens of Peckover House in Wisbech on Friday June 21. Two local professional musicians, pianist Loc-Mai Yuen-Brooker and soprano Wendy Lawson will be performing pieces by Handel, Schubert, Schumann and Debussy during the concert.

There were 18 singers in the competition's first year including the legendary Finnish soprano Karita Mattila, who went on to win Since the inaugural event in 1983, the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World trophy has become one of the most sought-after prizes in classical music.

The Dorothy Delson Kuhn Music Institute held a performance of classical works by Jewish composers at the Joan & Alan Bernikow Jewish Community Center in Castleton Corners, Seaview.

The choreographer Mark Morris above was this year's guest Music Director at the Southern California contemporary music festival in Ojai last week.

Miss Marple is possibly the only detective ever to solve a murder while out collecting for the village fete.

For the first time in more than 20 years, the July 4 Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular will not be televised nationally.

In 1938's first issue of "Action Comics," the world got its first glimpse of a superhero, and it was never the same again.