LONDON—For a program steeped in executions and funeral marches, the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s April 26 concert at Southbank Centre was surprisingly colorful. It was also full of drama, opening with a 30-minute tryout of a new … » Read

Craft Recordings, which manages one of the world’s largest catalogs of master recordings and compositions as a subsidiary of  Concord Music , has launched a multi-year archival program to make recordings by Telarc International … » Read

The 2023-24 season will mark Sir Antonio Pappano’s 23 rd and last season as music director at the Royal Opera House, after which he succeeds Sir Simon Rattle as chief conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. Highlights of the 63-year-old … » Read

For over 40 years, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) has been an incubator for world-class conducting talent. Beginning with Simon Rattle in 1980 and continuing through Sakari Oramo, Andris Nelsons, and Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla, the … » Read

Devotees of Gaetano Donizetti will be able to celebrate the Italian composer’s 225 th birthday with upcoming performances of as many as 90 newly discovered songs. Credit Roger Parker, a professor of music at King’s College London and … » Read

At home, this group performs as the National Symphony Orchestra. Abroad, it tours as the Taiwan Philharmonic—mostly because the words “Taiwan” and “National” appearing in the same sentence is guaranteed to drive … » Read

Thomas Søndergård's inaugural season as the 11 th music director of the Minnesota Orchestra (MO) kicks off next September with two weeks of the new man on the podium. “It is an enormous luxury for me to take over an ensemble … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — Harry Belafonte, the civil rights and entertainment giant who began as a groundbreaking actor and singer and became an activist, humanitarian, and conscience of the world, has died. He was 96. Belafonte died Tuesday of … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO—Ambling onstage in jeans and work shirts, the four members of So Percussion resembled a pick-up crew headed to a construction site. Indeed some of the equipment pressed into endlessly resourceful service by the group on April … » Read

AIX-EN-PROVENCE—Like Easter itself, the Festival de Pâques is a moveable feast. Every year its two-and-a-half week program of events is timed to straddle Holy Week, with one of Bach’s Passions given during Easter weekend as the … » Read