New York Philharmonic News

Pianist Leon Fleisher's recovery from a neurological disorder has been compared to cyclist's Lance Armstrong's triumph over cancer.

Steven Reineke will make his debut as the principal pops conductor with the Long Beach Symphony, Saturday, in a concert featuring one of his own compositions.

The public face of American orchestral music changed radically this autumn. For the first time, conductors from ethnic minorities have taken the helm at two of the country's most important ensembles.

The Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, founded in 1841, is just a year older than the New York Philharmonic , but with its avowed specialty - music of the Viennese Classical era - this ensemble makes the conservative Philharmonic look like a wild-eyed new-music band.

By all rights the concert the New York Philharmonic presented at Avery Fisher Hall on Friday night could have been a drowsy walk-through. After all it was not supposed to happen.

Leonard Bernstein was larger than life - conductor , Broadway composer and TV pioneer whose long-running Young People's Concerts helped make him one of the 20th century's most eminent, visible and irresistible musical talents and communicators.

Thomas Hampson to Make Debut as NY Philharmonic's Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence 11/5, 11/7, 11/10 Thursday, October 29, 2009; Posted: 12:10 PM - by BWW News Desk Baritone Thomas Hampson will give his first performances as the New York Philharmonic 's Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence when he joins the Orchestra, led by ...

A new chamber music series will begin its inaugural season on Saturday, Nov. 7, at 8 p.m. at Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale, 475 W. 250th St.

Classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein is so chill even after gorgeously playing two lively, emotive solo pieces the morning of Oct.

ABU DHABI // A sell-out crowd at the Emirates Palace hotel gave the New York Philharmonic a six-minute standing ovation last night as it made its debut in the capital on the first night of the Abu Dhabi Classics season.

The Dallas Symphony Association announced today that the orchestra and Music Director Jaap van Zweden have agreed to extend his current four-year contract through the 2015-2016 season.

Practically every concertgoer around knows about the violinist Midori, her phenomenal New York Philharmonic debut at 11, and her even more PR-worthy feat at 14.

5 exactly 50 years ago today - Oct. 20, 1959 - in Boston's Symphony Hall. Completed in 1937, the Symphony No.

With help from Beethoven and Brahms, the United States and Vietnam will engage in musical diplomacy this weekend when the New York Philharmonic debuts in the communist nation after a historic visit to Stalinist North Korea last year.

People watch pianist Emanuel Ax of the New York Philharmonic playing Beethovena s piano concerto No.

The conductor of the New York Philharmonic wielded his baton as an instrument of diplomacy Thursday.

For two drowsy decades, the New York Philharmonic played it safe: a pair of grand-old-man music directors , redundant festivals of canonical composers , the usual parade of soloists .

Caramoor, in Katonah, N.Y., has long been a popular spot for summer music, with its gardens and grounds for picnicking.

The cancellation of a New York Philharmonic trip to Cuba raises a question: Why doesn't the MSO go instead? Photograph by: ALLEN MCINNIS THE GAZETTE, The Gazette How sad.

In mid-September, Alan Gilbert took over as music director of the New York Philharmonic , the first native New Yorker in the orchestra's 167-year history.