Daniel Barenboim News

Daniel Barenboim conducts Bizet's "Carmen" in La Scala's highly anticipated season premiere.

Today's Birthdays: Judge Joseph Wapner is 90. Statesman Howard H. Baker Jr. is 84.

Playing to the people ... Conductor Daniel Barenboim and his classical youth orchestra in the West Bank.

It's almost an achievement, if a perverse one, to have audiences of up to 3,000 every night for two months and for those audiences to feature so few black faces that they stand out like ornaments.

FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2008 file picture conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim, center, and The... FILE - In this Aug.

FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2008 file picture conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim, center, and The... FILE - In this Aug.

FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2008 file picture conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim, center, and The... FILE - In this Aug.

As the Chinese-born pianist Lang Lang basks in his success as perhaps the world's best-known classical musician, he still finds himself in a matrix of influence from three father figures.

The 2009 New Year's day concert in Vienna, an annual event telecast worldwide, included one item that did not fall anywhere near the category of a Viennese waltz.

Milan's La Scala opera company performed a free open-air concert of Verdi's Requiem Thursday evening in Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park as part of the city's 100th anniversary celebrations.

YesterdayA's performances at the Rockwave Festival were cancelled due to problems caused by the weather, but organizers have said they are hoping todayA's and tomorrowA's program, with hard rock and metal concerts, will take place as scheduled.

When the S.C. Philharmonic played Mahler's First Symphony on May 2nd it just missed the national MahlerFest that took place a couple of weeks later.

Juan Diego Florez is one of the big names at this year's International Istanbul Music Festival.

Italian operatic mezzo-soprano who achieved global stardom with her outstanding vocal skills and captivating stage presence.