Gershwin News

THE next Local and Live concert in Wollaston will feature cellist Corinne Frost and double bass player and guitarist Stephen Warner.

DAVID GUETTA Famous for his "Fuck me, I'm famous" club parties and mix records, this Parisian DJ has been known as the first to spin house records in France.

Drenched in jazz and Afro-Caribbean idioms, Michel Camilo's attractive Piano Concerto No.

David Itkin, music director and conductor of the Las Vegas Philharmonic, leads his group in May.

As the world becomes more globalized and generic, it's easy to lose our sense of individuality.

Paul McCartney Paul McCartney has been named the third recipient of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, it was announced Monday by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington.

The Middletown Symphony Orchestra's got rhythm, it's got music, and it's got a woman on vocals for its annual Conductor Auction Pops concert Saturday, Nov.

George Gershwin with brother Ira and Fred Astair on the Hollywood set of the musical Shall We Dance , 1937.

"He has such a flourish about him, doesn't he?" That's Marin Alsop , speaking about Jean-Yves Thibaudet, the French pianist with the scintillant technique, refined musicality and really great clothes.

Crowd pleasers Graffiti Classics are making a welcome return to Louth. The musical quartet is renowned for its riotous mix of music, comedy and dancing, giving classical music a whole new meaning.

The Chinese-born, America-based pianist Xiayin Wang is receiving rave reviews for her new CD of the work of Alexander Scriabin.

In his 1999 memoir, -A Cure for Gravity: A Musical Pilgrimage, Joe Jackson writes approvingly of George Gershwin as a musician who kept one foot in the popular and one in the classical realms of music.

DreamWorks is tuning up a biopic on composer George Gershwin. Company has picked up a screenplay by "Memoirs of a Geisha" scribe Doug Wright about the iconic musician.

For frenziedly creative polymaths, the French may have Jean Cocteau, but the Jews have Belarus-born Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport, who wrote poems, fiction, ethnography and plays under the pen name S. An-sky . Of these, indubitably the most famous is An-sky's still-popular 1914 Russian play "The Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds," the story of a young bride ...

LANCASTER -- Classical music with a twist is how some people might describe the performances that professional pianist Rudolf Budginas gives his audiences.

Ian is dedicated to the promotion of jazz all over the world and to catching just a little piece of it for himself.

Michelle and Barack Obama sat one table over from J. Lo and Marc Anthony, and all four of them were rocking in their seats as Sheila E. shook the house - well, really the tent.

Published: Sunday, October 18, 2009 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 8:46 p.m. The Blue Ridge Performing Arts Center will present "Pianopalooza," four nights of piano concerts to wow and entertain the area's piano music lovers.

The Miss Clark County Outstanding Teen Pageant and Miss Clark County Pageant are today.

Harmonies will fill the Robert L. and Elizabeth S. Cole Auditorium at Richmond Community College as the a cappella group Chapter 6 performs at 3 p.m. on Oct.