Following are a few highlights of China’s musical year: At least three new venues opened Shangyin Opera House , a government-funded facility affiliated with the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, opened in October with  La finta … » Read

A generous news segment on Portland’s local ABC-TV affiliate covers the Oregon Symphony’s prison outreach program at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility for women. Crystal Akins, an employee, organized a choir at the prison several … » Read

A vibrant 95-year-old, 4-foot, 8-inch tall Rosalind Cron is one of only two survivors of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, America’s first racially integrated, all-girl swing band. In its heyday during the early 1940s, the band … » Read

The world’s best-selling classical musician lives in a 17th-century chateau with 27 bedrooms and a butterfly house. Last year, the Dutch violinist and conductor André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu sold more than 40 million DVDs and … » Read

Cox Communications, the No. 3 cable provider, has lost a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit filed by the RIAA on behalf of its members, including EMI, Warner Music Group, Sony Music and Universal Music. The labels claimed Cox had … » Read

As previously reported , the U.S. Department of Justice accused Live Nation of violating a 2010 government settlement that enabled its controversial, $889-million merger with Ticketmaster and of coercing venues to use Ticketmaster over other … » Read

Pipe organ fans are keeping their fingers crossed that the impending renovation of Geffen Hall will include their instrument of choice. At present neither of New York’s two premiere concert halls contain “the king of … » Read

A field trip last October to a Philadelphia Orchestra rehearsal proved an especially happy occasion for one 16-year-old high school student. Diagnosed last March with leukemia, Kyle Levy was looking forward to getting a break from his draining … » Read

The dwindling interest in classical music in the late 20 th and early 21 st centuries can make it hard to imagine a time when large segments of the population could get exercised over the nationality of a composer or performer. In Dangerous … » Read

VIENNA (AFP) - Vienna's prestigious ballet academy is endangering children's wellbeing including by encouraging them to smoke to stay slim, an Austrian commission probing abuse claims said Tuesday. The scandal first broke in April when a media … » Read