PITTSBURGH – The Pittsburgh Symphony’s upcoming tour of South America will likely be its last, according to a report in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Logistical and financial issues have plagued the long months of planning. "This tour was promised … » Read

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- A free concert of Mozart, Bach, and Beethoven is being played 24 hours a day on a blighted street corner, not to enlighten the masses but to reduce crime. Police say drug deals, shootings, and thefts have dropped … » Read

CINCINNATI – Despite generations of serving artists from Igor Stravinsky to Liberace, America's largest piano maker is in federal bankruptcy court. The reasons behind the tough times at Baldwin Piano & Organ Co. are very much in dispute, however. … » Read

BERLIN -- Round 2 in the current match of Daniel Barenboim vs. Israel's Wagnerphobes takes the form here of rounding up opinions both Israeli and German, both pro and con, in the German media today, but only one quotation really zeroes in on le … » Read

GUANGZHOU, China -- English comprehension among the musicians of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra is minimal, but this morning’s guest conductor Klaus Weise has little trouble making his displeasure understood. Rehearsing onstage at the city’s … » Read

BERLIN -- Daniel Barenboim's Wagnerian prank in Jerusalem -- playing the Prelude to “Tristan und Isolde” as an impromptu encore -- may have taken place in Israel, but it has exploded onto the front page of virtually every German newspaper this … » Read

LONDON -- The London Symphony Orchestra has unveiled the site of its new education and performing arts venue in the City of London. The Nicholas Hawksmoor-designed St. Luke’s church, near the orchestra’s base in the Barbican Centre, will be called … » Read

JERUSALEM (AP) -- World-renowned conductor Daniel Barenboim delighted much of his Israeli audience with a piece by Richard Wagner, Adolf Hitler's favorite composer -- but he also provoked a sharp debate that carried on Sunday after the music … » Read

SPOLETO, Italy (AP) -- He got a hug from big Luciano, thanks from the stars, and lots of applause from the public. It seemed only fitting that some of the world's most famous voices would turn up in Spoleto to help celebrate the 90th birthday of … » Read

HAVANA (AP) -- Leonard Bernstein was a 23-year-old vacationing in Key West, Fla., a half century ago when he first heard scratchy Cuban rhythms from a radio that was picking up a station on the island to the south. ``He was infatuated with the … » Read