Have Coffee Will Writ (Free subscription) | yesterday
Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us all realize our untapped love for it -- and by extension, our untapped love for all new possibilities, new experiences, new connections...
New York Newsday (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Hamptons are alive with the sound of music this weekend, even more than on most summer weekends. From Mendelssohn and Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein and Kurt Weill, it's a musical feast on the South Fork.
Chanel News Asia (Free subscription) | yesterday
SINGAPORE: Tan Tock Seng Hospital has launched a classical music CD to celebrate its 164th Founder's Day.
merinews - citizen powered media (Free subscription) | yesterday
Latur (Maharastra) will witness a 'Hindustani Classical Music Programme' on July 26th and 27th 2008. The programme is joint venture of the Directorate of Arts and Culture and Saraswati Sangeet Kala Mahavidyalaya Latur.
WorkAtHome (Free subscription) | yesterday
Cozy classical music concerts in your homeHouston Chronicle, United States - 31 minutes agoClassical music composers Elliot Cole, Brad Balliett and brother Doug Balliett will present a work they wrote together in an empty apartment in the Montrose …
Europe A La Carte Blog (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
With a name like “Viva Musica!” you might think that you were attending one of those huge summer music festivals in Barcelona or Paris. But no, this outdoor offering of jazz and classical music takes place in a city quite on the other side of Europe. Welcome to Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, which [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Germany's Bayreuth opera festival will enter a new era when it opens on Friday, updated for the online age with internet broadcasts, open-air screenings and even a stuntman.
AfriClassical (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
[Scott Joplin's Treemonisha; Original Cast Recording; Polygram 435709 (1992)] The Scott Joplin page at AfriClassical.com tells of the 1975 production of Joplin's opera, Treemonisha , by the Houston Grand Opera, as orchestrated by Gunther Schuller. A visitor to the website has informed us that the work was first staged in 1972 by Morehouse College and the Atlanta Symphony. The following two paragraphs...
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | yesterday
Germany's world-famous Wagner opera festival is set to open its 2008 season on Friday. Some high-tech changes show that this will be the last festival before a major generational change.
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
They've toured across the globe, played the Albert Hall, and collaborated with some of the biggest names in classical music. The Helikon Opera has a reputation as the most exciting and innovative oper...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
NEW DELHI: Banyan Tree Events is organising a festival of Hindustani classical music at Stein Auditorium of India Habitat Centre here this Saturday. A nationally acclaimed monsoon music festival “Barkha Ritu: Celebrate Rains... ...
Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday
NEW DELHI: Banyan Tree Events is organising a festival of Hindustani classical music at Stein Auditorium of India Habitat Centre here this Saturday. A nationally acclaimed monsoon music festival “Barkha Ritu: Celebrate Rains... ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bayreuth, Germany - Grateful praise showered Friday on Wolfgang Wagner as his last Bayreuth opera festival began in Germany, but his niece criticized a plan for his two daughters to take over. For 57 years, Wagner, 88, has run the event, which only p...
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
When a ticket to the Proms costs just £5, it's time to dispel the myth that classical music is always expensive
AfriClassical (Free subscription) | yesterday
[Justin Holland; Photo Courtesy Douglas Back] " Justin Holland was born to free black parents in Norfolk County, Virginia on July 26, 1819," Barbara Clemenson writes in her article Justin Holland: Black Guitarist in the Western Reserve . Guitarist Douglas Back has made a recording which includes five works of the composer, American Pioneers of the Classic Guitar, Mento Music Press SMM 3023 (1994)....
