Famously, Paul McCartney awoke from a dream one day with the melody to “Yesterday” already in his head, and completed the tune (albeit with “scrambled eggs” use ...

Die Frau Ohne Schatten” is a difficult opera for any conductor. Klaus Mäkelä chose it for his first new production, in front ...

Adams’ maximal minimalism was framed by Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man and Joan Tower’s parallel feminist statement, with Florence Price’s The Heart of A Woman adding a Broadway flourish ...

A violin gifted to not-for-profit organisation Music for Canberra bears the hallmarks of early 18th century European style.

Join the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra this August for the highly anticipated Klein Karoo Klassique Gala Concert, featuring renowned maestro Richard Cock and pianist François du Toit. Experience a ...

July 4 comes around every year, of course, and every year various Arkansas celebrations mark the official date of the independence of the fledgling United States of America from imperial Great Britain ...

Nobody delivers a line quite like Alec Baldwin as Boston’s Jack Donaghy. Now Baldwin — the line-delivery-master — is ...

These orchestras and symphonies offer free classical music concerts and educational programs, plus are reimaging how people ...

Sounds of the City is back this July, taking over Manchester’s Castlefield Bowl for a series of headline concerts, featuring The K's, The Streets, Johnny Marr and many more ...

Facing sharp declines, classical groups are experimenting with programming and pricing and anything else that might fill ...

Why do composers borrow music for their new works”?

From contrabassoons to harmonicas, we take a look at some of the concertos for more unusual instruments to have found their ...