Roll over, Beethoven: Orchestras challenge classical music
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The Ambitious Orchestra is one of several musical projects trying to draw younger, hipper music lovers to concert halls.
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Composers who are also active conductors gain direct experience with a wide array of music, especially if they are as adventurous as Esa-Pekka Salonen.
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Musicians will perform in the homes of fans in a Radio 3 bid to make orchestras more accessible.
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Andras Schiff is showing in his Carnegie Hall traversal of the sonatas is that a handful of relatively small but decisive steps lead from the Haydnesque playfulness of Beethovenâs earliest works to the grand proclamations of the mature ones.
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Music directors of major orchestras donÂt usually get to name their successors, but Lorin Maazel of the New York Philharmonic has a suggestion.
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Being female and Chinese in the classical music business are helpful in getting yourself noticed, but careers are built â and this one is building fast â on substance. Xian Zhang has it.
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The Beethoven piano sonatas tell a story, but which story is a matter of debate.
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MANCHESTER (Billboard) - 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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The Kosovo Philharmonic is  rehearsing for the biggest performance in its short history,  Beethoven's Ode to Joy.
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David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra gave an engaging, informative and unabashedly quirky demonstration of how to demystify a daunting contemporary work for the public.
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The seemingly inexhaustible supply of Beethoven performances, and the seemingly inexhaustible public demand for them.
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Birmingham's symphony orchestra claims to be the first ensemble in the world to offer regular classical music podcasts.
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Classical music labels faced the challenges of 2003 with a series of innovative steps in 2004 that have produced promising results.
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Beethoven drank here. So did Brahms, Freud, and more recently Bill Clinton and Sophia Loren.
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By Paul Horsley, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Sep. 17--Tenor Nathan Granner and classical guitarist Beau Bledsoe have a message for those who still think classical music is staid.
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The portable stereos that ruled city streets in the 1980s aren't shipping in high volumes anymore. But some sound artists are finding new ways to incorporate the devices into performances and ad-hoc radio networks. By Elizabeth Biddlecombe.
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In a recent column, critic Edward Reichel complained about what he feels is the Utah Symphony's too frequent scheduling of standard classics -- the offending composition here being Tchaikovsky's celebrated Violin Concerto. Mr.