Classical News

During the winter months, when tourists and snow birds flock to South Florida, the arts calendar is filled with theater, music and dance performances; but once Passover and Easter pass, a little culture can be scarce.

For hundreds of thousands of Streisand fans, many of whom were Friends of Dorothy, "Classical Barbra" was the album that first introduced them to the songs of Faure, Debussy, Schumann and Wolf.

The 66-year-old from Woolston is proof of just how crucial new discoveries and breakthroughs are to helping save lives, having taken part in a clinical trial that saw her receive pioneering treatment to beat the disease despite the odds being against her.

Paris's Theatre du Chatelet recently presented Stephen Sondheim & James Lapine 's Pulitzer Prize-winning SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, starring Julian Ovenden , and the production was filmed and broadcast by Mezzo TV.

The soundtrack of Bavo Defurne's second feature film Souvenir is to be composed by the Pink Martini ensemble.

That's because the five-time Tony Award winner has programed the ring tone for both to be The Carpenters' hit version of " Close to You." For more revealing things about McDonald look no further than her new CD and televised concert.

Amira Abouzahra performs with Tino Oac, vocalist from a popular German band, SA hne Mannheimsat.

Birdland Jazz Club has announced their exciting line-up of extraordinary talent for May 20 - May 26, 2013.

THE story of three young boys who died in a blizzard on Darwen's moors has inspired a renowned musician to compose a piece of classical music.

Take a look at some of the best in photographs sent to the Warren Reporter during the week of May 13-17, 2013.

Saxophonist Julian Smith is making a welcome return to the Lichfield Garrick on Saturday 1 June with his band and a special guest vocalist.

Nelsons, 34, will be the youngest music director to lead the BSO in more than a century when he assumes the post in the 2014-15 season.

Former members of the Worcestershire and Sherwood foresters regimental band joined the band as well as singer Derek White who sang One Moment in Time and Cry me a River.

Superstar soprano Kathleen Battle brings her "Underground Railroad" program back to the Music Center at Strathmore .

In 1884, Pierrot Lunaire: Rondels Bergamasques , a collection of 50 poems by symbolist Belgian poet Albert Giraud was published.

Host Scott Simon speaks with New York Times classical music critic Anthony Tommasini about conductor James Levine's return to the Metropolitan Opera after a series of health problems kept him away for two years.

The Diamond Valley Community Orchestra, formerly known as the Golden Eagle Orchestra, performs Sunday, May 19, at Mt.

And with the promise of classical music mixed with break dancing and a Brazilian martial arts dance form, the audience looks set to enjoy a diverse and dynamic show from this vibrant young London-based orchestra.

Arriving this week on Seattle stages: a play partly written in Esperanto, a romp with J.S. Bach and some of his musical rivals, and the latest Hedgebrook festival of new works by esteemed women dramatists.

A Steinway & Sons piano that belonged to legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz has been touring the country, and on Tuesday evening, the piano was featured in West Point for a reception hosted by the Mississippi State University College of Education and Department of Music.