Topic: Orchestral Music
AP News | 2010-03-16 13:53:06
In this photo provided by the New York Philharmonic, six Broadway divas, spanning several generations of musical theater, flank David Hyde Pierce, center, to celebrate the upcoming 80th birthday of composer Stephen Sondheim, Monday March 15, 2010 at Lincoln Center ...
AFP Global Edition | 2010-03-13 20:10:15
Michel Plasson has led some of the world's greatest orchestras, from Berlin to Paris to London, but he has come east to take on a new challenge as the first foreign principal conductor in China. Many international maestros have made guest appearances with the nation's top ensembles, but Plasson, 76, is now the leader of the China National ...
AFP Global Edition | 2010-03-04 17:10:46
American conductor Lorin Maazel celebrates his 80th birthday this weekend conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in the Austrian capital. Topping the programme of Saturday's performance at the Musikverein concert hall will be the world premiere of a suite taken from Maazel's opera "1984", based on the novel of the same name by George Orwell. Maazel will also conduct Claude ...
AP News | 2010-02-25 23:27:19
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Music Director Designate Riccardo Muti, right, responds to a question with CSO Association President Deborah F. Rutter during a news conference where he was introduced Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010 in Chicago. Muti will begin his tenure as ...
