LONDON – What British rock and roll musicians did for the U.S. music scene in the Sixties, American classical musicians are now doing for the British music scene. Or so it would appear. An article in The Guardian points out that there are now six … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) -- Stephen Wadsworth hasn't had a day off in weeks, and that may be good news for the first-place Seattle Mariners. The American stage director is in the final throes of overseeing the Seattle Opera's new production of Wagner's … » Read

ATLANTA – Pierre Ruhe has done some laudable sleuthing in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, blowing the cover of “composer” Tristan Foison. Active in the Atlanta area since 1987 as a composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher, Foison was first … » Read

On July 24, MusicalAmerica.com posted an Associated Press Wire story entitled "Puccini March Premiered Today," . The article related how a San Diego State University music professor had “discovered” the two-minute, "long-forgotten" Puccini march … » Read

ST. LOUIS, Missouri – Rumors that the Saint Louis Symphony is having financial difficulties turn out to be dead-on factual. In an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sarah Bryan-Miller writes that, at this point, the orchestra has only three … » Read

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fighting to regain readers, newspapers are increasing their interaction with the public by offering everything from new designs to reporters' e-mail addresses. "The greatest writing in the world won't make a whit of … » Read

TEL AVIV – On Wednesday, Zubin Mehta called a special news conference here to denounce the decision made by the Knesset Education Committee to characterize Daniel Barenboim as a “cultural persona non grata in Israel.” [See ”Israelis Urge Boycott … » Read

LONDON -- Britain’s Policy Studies Institute (PSI) has published a gloomy report on arts attendance during 1998-99, the most recent time period for which sufficient data is available. “Despite billions of [public funds]spent on the arts, … » Read

PITTSBURGH – The Pittsburgh Symphony is back from its rocky ten-day tour of South America, in which four of the original eight planned concerts were cancelled. “Nearly everyone had an opinion about this [tour],” reports the Post-Gazette, “which … » Read

PITTSBURGH – The Pittsburgh Symphony is back from its rocky ten-day tour of South America, in which four of the original eight planned concerts were cancelled. “Nearly everyone had an opinion about this [tour],” reports the Post-Gazette, “which … » Read