Ethnomusicologist Nicholas England has been named acting president of CalArts.
Supertenor Placido Domingo will pay an undisclosed sum to a British concert promoter for canceling a London appearance at the last minute, a Domingo spokesman said Thursday.
Former Metropolitan Opera general manager Sir Rudolf Bing, whose estate of some $1 million has been taken out of his control by a U.S. court, has surfaced again in England.
Italian concert violinist Luigi Alberto Bianchi paid 440,000 pounds ($726,000) for a Stradivarius violin in London on Wednesday, the largest amount spent at auction for a musical instrument.
Jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis is out with his fourth classical album and opens an East Coast tour next month promoting it.
Israel's Foreign Minister, Shimon Peres, said Saturday that a series of performances in Jerusalem by a Soviet Gypsy musical troupe "is an expression of a change in our relations with the Soviet Union."
Conductor Zubin Mehta has denied the accusation of a demoted viola player in the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra that he terrorizes musicians, the Tel Aviv newspaper Haaretz reported Monday.
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra announced Tuesday that it will play in the Soviet Union this spring, marking the first time in 11 years that an American orchestra will have appeared before Soviet audiences.
Soprano Maria Ewing has withdrawn from all her Metropolitan opera engagements after a row with the Met's artistic director, James Levine.
Given the recent realization of the "global village" concept, it had to happen.
At the luncheon opening the 42nd national conference of the American Symphony Orchestra League, in New York today, the Los Angeles Philharmonic will receive first place in the ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) Awards.
the French capital honoring his music teacher, Nadia Boulanger.
Soviet pianist Vladimir Feltsman, whose promising career was halted eight years ago when he applied for an exit visa to Israel, has announced that his request to emigrate had been granted by the Soviet government.
Baby boomers have taken to baby grands in a big way, according to the American Music Conference.
The Los Angeles Philharmonic was among the 153 orchestras and ensembles receiving grants totaling more than $8 million from the National Endowment for the Arts.
For the second time in nine days, former New York Met director Sir Rudolf Bing--suffering from Alzheimer's disease--disappeared in London after going out for a pack of cigarettes.
Peter Hemmings, executive director of Los Angeles Music Center Opera, confirmed Tuesday that he is
Iran's claim to a valuable 1698 Stradivarius violin was rejected Wednesday by a Washington jury that decided the instrument belonged to a wealthy Tehran carpet dealer who fled his home country in 1981.
"The Toscanini Legacy," a collection of personal papers and memorabilia that promises to shed new light on the conductor, will soon be available for study at the New York Public Library, the New York Times reported Monday.
Contralto Marian Anderson, who in 1955 became the first black woman to debut with the Metropolitan Opera, received a human rights award Friday from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.