John Eliot Gardiner, a renowned classical music conductor who has led some of the world’s most prestigious orchestras, said Thursday he was pulling out of all of his remaining 2023 engagements, days ...

The American Experience in music this morning, we will hear women taking the lead, from contemporary icon Marin Alsop to ...

FARGO - As far as maestros go, Darryl One walks to the beat of a different drummer. While many conductors have a history in musical performance or at least studied classical music from a young age, ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 14, 2023. The original video can be viewed here. Yannick Nézet-Séguin is a conductor operating at triple tempo, at once the director of ...

When you hear the word “conductor,” what—or who—do you picture? “It’s probably an older white man who looks very serious,” jokes Kevin Fitzgerald, the 32-year-old who is currently the Associate ...

LONDON (AP) — Prominent classical music conductor John Eliot Gardiner is pulling out of all engagements until next year after allegedly hitting a singer backstage following a concert. The British ...

In popular culture, it’s not often that classical music gets a spot in the proverbial spotlight. But more recently, two celebrated films have taken the subject up and earned critical and cultural ...

Seiji Ozawa, who has died aged 88, was one of the few Japanese musicians to make a significant mark in the Western classical music tradition. He crossed the East-West divide with remarkable ease, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Jonathon Heyward wears sneakers onstage and embraces genres like jazz as part of his effort to bring more people into the concert hall. Jonathon Heyward begins his tenure as the ...

Special guest conductor, Carl Topilow, and renowned pianist George Burton, will appear at the No Name Pops’ upcoming concert, Timeless: A Tribute to the Legacy of Peter Nero. The concert will take ...

Flicking through this box set will provoke a Proustian rush if you’re of a certain age. These recordings were mostly made for EMI, though Warner Classics have wisely kept the LPs’ original sleeve art, ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - It pleases British conductor Sir Roger Norrington no end that when he conducted a 16th century opera in Italy exactly as the composer intended, a reviewer called it "prophetic ...