July 18, 2018 / 2:56 AM
July 18, 2018 / 2:56 AM
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Video emerges of a car crash "Flight of the Bumblebee" from the Chinese piano star.
Living in New York City, especially now in 2014, is an enormously expensive enterprise.
"'Pure Heroine'" is a staggeringly accomplished pop record: Big, catchy choruses are underpinned with attention-grabbing starkness and wildly unorthodox beats." -- Eric Greenwood
The story of U.S. customs officials destroying a musician's 11 handmade flutes has sparked outrage from readers wherever it has been reported. Flutist Boujemaa Razgui recently wrote about his memories of playing these flutes throughout North America ...
It's been nearly two weeks since the roof collapsed, mid-performance, at the Apollo Theater on Shaftesbury Avenue.
Flute virtuoso Boujemaa Razgui had just flown back to New York from Marrakech, Morocco after the holiday when U.S. customs officials at John F. Kennedy Airport asked to see his bag of flutes. The officials proceeded to remove and smash each one of ...
The U.K.'s New Year's Honors List has been announced. Apart from the fact that more women than men have been honored for the first time ever, it is notable for some worthy ladies and gentlemen of the arts. A good batch in the main, this year.
Nine-year-old singer Amira won 'Holland's Got Talent' on Saturday evening with a moving performance of Puccini's "Nessun Dorma."
This may go down as the weirdest classical music story of 2013, getting in just before the year winds down. According to the U.K.'s tabloid 'Daily Star' newspaper, a Merseyside farmer has discovered that playing classical music to his hens encourages ...
It is one of Vienna's proudest traditions, the New Year's concert with the Vienna Philharmonic, televised all over the world. And the question the Viennese and others all ask as the date nears is, which conductor will be honored by being given this ...
Dan Ettinger has been appointed the new music director of the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra. Not bad for someone who started as a baritone, in his native Israel.
It's too late now to order a classical music CD or DVD for Christmas, but why not take the New Year as a cue to freshen up your musical tastes?
"There is this cultural kind of gladiatorial aspect to opera singing and opera singers because they are out there, they are singing into [hidden] microphones for the purpose of the audiences in movie theatres but they are not being amplified, they ...
Yusef Lateef, innovative tenor saxophonist, oboist, flutist and composer, died on December 23 after a brief illness, his wife Ayesha confirmed. He was 93.
If you're going to give a community Christmas concert, why not five? And if you're going to do it out in the community, why not take the music to five different places? Why not, indeed? The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra see no reason why not and so have ...
