British violinist Nigel Kennedy, who's touring the United States (he was booked for a weekend stint with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington), signed an unusual record contract with Angel/EMI Records.
Jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis is out with his fourth classical album and opens an East Coast tour next month promoting it.
Former Metropolitan Opera head Sir Rudolf Bing and his new wife--out of sight since he was ruled incompetent to handle his affairs last month--have surfaced on the Caribbean island of Anguilla, according to the British protectorate's police commissioner.
Nipper, the dog listening to "his master's voice," has been called home to RCA Records to resume his job as the company's logo after being sent away in the early 1970s, according to the record company's new owner, Bertelsmann.
It may have been the first audience in history garbed completely in 100% wool.
Former General Manager Sandra A.
of Philadelphia's first honorees for its planned Walk of Fame, organized by the city's Music Foundation.
Peter Schickele, the musical satirist behind P.D.Q.
Houston's flagging civic pride will get a boost this weekend when the city's $72-million opera house opens.
Spoleto Festival USA, the 17-day music and arts extravaganza in Charleston, S.C., opened this
Opera companies around the globe this year marked the 90th birthday of the late Rosa Ponselle, but the diva's lavish Maryland home is closing because the foundation that runs it is running out of money.
Some 7,000 people crowded into the Vatican on Saturday night to hear a rare performance by the reclusive Italian pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli.
The strange case of Sir Rudolf Bing took a new turn over the weekend as New York papers revealed that the ailing opera impresario's new wife was declared mentally unstable five years ago.
American violinist Isaac Stern, performing with the San Francisco Symphony under the direction of Herbert Blomstedt, drew enthusiastic cheers Wednesday evening at the Theatre Musical de Paris.
Opera singer Shirley Verrett's Rome debut as Lady Macbeth ended in boos and jeers after she was forced to quit in the first act because of a throat ailment.
New York City Opera will perform a two-week engagement in Taiwan in December, its first overseas tour since 1958.
Anthony Davis, composer of the opera "X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X," has completed a new work in which he uses computers to explore the musical qualities of speech.
The Fresno Philharmonic finally has a permanent music director and conductor.
Pianist Vladimir Horowitz is set to record with an orchestra for the first time in eight years, the Deutsche Grammophon company said Wednesday.
The new wife of Sir Rudolf Bing says her husband deserves a high standard of living and denies allegations that she is squandering his money.