Working-Class Orchestra, World-Class Fiddles
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Busy adjusting to their new world-class instruments, the string section of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra aren't talking about bad publicity.
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Some instrument makers and researchers are using science to deconstruct the vibrations and waves at work to create the distinctive sounds of violins and guitars.
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A survey of Messiaenâs organ music performed by Gail Archer is sure to be among the yearâs highlights, to judge by the initial installment on Sunday afternoon.
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The philharmonicâs program, âPainters of Sound,â brought together John Coriglianoâs âPied Piper Fantasyâ and Berliozâs âSymphonie Fantastique.â
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An obscure composerâs grand plan to transform a bridge into an orchestra is slowly taking place upstate.
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Jeffrey Milarsky led the Manhattan Sinfonietta in an energetic performance that was the picture of ensemble virtuosity.
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Opera is revolutionary. It thrills the elite and masses alike, bops to Indian drums and grooves to glass-shattering Wagnerian arias in a mosh pit filled with British rockers.
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TAKING up the baton in the orchestra pit of any leading opera house in the world is a benchmark of musical success.
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The composer belts out an impressive concert.
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This concert of new experimental folk music at Carnegie Hall used about 25 musicians working as a large cast, with instrumentation constantly changing. Amazingly, it worked; the show felt almost windborne.
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Classical music is asserting its  populist credentials, with the 2007 edition of the prestigious  Gramophone Awards having conducted the genre's biggest public  vote.
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Though a musicians strike loomed over its opening on Thursday, the Cleveland Orchestra remains one of the finest for Mendelssohn anywhere.
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By Tim Cornwell Arts Correspondent  SCOTLAND'S national orchestra is to broadcast its recordings and sell thousands of tracks across the internet, in a move believed to be a world first.
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The singers held the spotlight, but if the instrumental works were few, the players had ample opportunity to shine.
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The music composer was in the US for his concert.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Workers in a small adobe house   in a gritty area of downtown Santiago are quietly producing   what many musicians consider to be the world's best clarinets,   carving out a niche in a global trade dominated by two or three   big manufacturers.
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English composers were once mere imitators. Then came a renaissance.