Topic: Classical Music
Sir Charles Mackerras, the Australian symphony and opera conductor who was one of Britain's best-loved classical musicians, has died aged 84 after suffering from cancer, it was announced on Thursday. Mackerras, who conducted at the opening of the Sydney Opera House, passed ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Charles Mackerras, a gifted musician who conducted some of the world's leading orchestras, has died at the age of 84 after suffering from cancer, his agent said Thursday. Born in New York state to Australian parents, Mackerras was raised ...
Sir Charles Mackerras, the Australian symphony and opera conductor who was one of Britain's best-loved classical musicians, has died aged 84 after suffering from cancer, it was announced on Thursday. Mackerras, who conducted at the opening of the Sydney Opera House, passed ...
Renowned Israeli cellist Mischa Maisky rubbed a finger on his left hand, shaking his signature explosion of curly grey hair after a flawless duo with virtuoso pianist Martha Argerich. "I have a terrible pain in my finger, I hardly could play," the ...
VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Sting, former frontman of The Police, kicked off a world tour of his greatest hits on Wednesday but replaced the familiar guitar, drum and base riffs with the gentle strains of oboes, violins and cellos. Backed by the London ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Nigel Kennedy can't be classical music's bad boy anymore at age 53 even if he does still sport a mohawk, kick soccer balls into the audience and sprinkle the "f" word into every other sentence. So how about naming ...
Listening to Mozart does not make you more intelligent, researchers from the Austrian composer's homeland said on Monday, contradicting a popular 1993 study that first coined the "Mozart effect." A team at Vienna University's Faculty of Psychology compiled studies that have since ...
Audio-only disc brings high quality sound to home theater musicOle Bull Violin Concertos Push Blu-ray's Boundaries By Jim Bray TechnoFile.com From Norway's 2L comes an excellent audio Blu-ray that's a good example of how Blu-ray discs can be used for more than ...
Silk Road Project founded by Yo-Yo Ma is moving from Rhode Island to HarvardCellist Yo-Yo Ma is moving his Silk Road Project from Rhode Island to Harvard University. The 12-year-old nonprofit organization brings together musicians from different backgrounds and traditions and has ...
Pleyel, the world's oldest piano firm and the last still operating in France, has stopped even trying to compete with Chinese and Korean rivals on price and now focuses instead on innovative design. The company's 15 workers ply their trade in a ...
