Four men wearing wigs and false beards sneaked into the personnel office of the Paris Opera Thursday and stole $58,300 from the safe, police said.
A manuscript of nine symphonies handwritten by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is expected to bring a record price of at least $1.5 million when it is sold later this month at Sotheby's, the London auction house said Monday.
Trumpet player Wynton Marsalis has established a fellowship program that will enable talented minority students to study at Tanglewood, the Western Massachusetts summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Bernard Haitink, music director-designate of London's Royal Opera House, announced Wednesday the
Houston's new $70-million Wortham Theater Center opened Saturday night with an invitation-only black-tie gala.
A telephone tip led to the recovery of a $70,000 violin stolen at knifepoint from a musician in New York, police said.
Hot tickets in Europe right now are for trains to Brussels.
Cremona, Italy, will mark the 250th anniversary of Antonio Stradivari's death this year with a month of concerts by some of the world's most celebrated musicians, who will all play Stradivarius instruments.
L.A. new-music advocate Betty Freeman and violinist Isaac Stern will be honored by the American
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The San Francisco Opera has commissioned an opera based on the biblical legend of Esther.
Big changes for the Sequoia Quartet.
Musicians of the New Orleans Symphony refused to show up for rehearsal Sunday and said they wouldn't play three concerts scheduled this week until they receive more than $400,000 in back pay.
The Valley Master Chorale, based in the San Fernando Valley, announced Monday it has changed directors.
Buffalo News reported, becoming one of the few conductors born and trained in America to become music director of a major European orchestra.
During a bomb threat Saturday night that cleared the Munich concert hall in which he was appearing, thieves stole conductor Leonard Bernstein's $16,000 watch from his dressing room.
After a four-year absence, the San Diego Folk Festival returns to San Diego State University this week in time for its 20th birthday.
New York State Supreme Court Judge Arthur Blyn ruled Wednesday that former Metropolitan Opera chief Sir Rudolf Bing is mentally incompetent, found his wife in contempt of court and gave the go-ahead to have the couple's 4-month-old marriage annulled.
A high school band from Morgan Hill, Calif., played for 500 of its Chinese contemporaries in Beijing on Wednesday.
The directors of the embattled San Diego Symphony--forced by a $6-million debt to cancel its entire 1986-87 season--say they will resign if that will enhance efforts by Mayor Maureen O'Connor to re-establish the credibility of the orchestra association.