It was never enough to play violin

America’s oldest dance festival has just been called off after a staffer was killed last week while moving stage gear. The victim was named as production manager Kat Sirico. Among the events cancelled are performances […]

For the first time this decade, the Bayreuth Festival has sold 100 percent of its tickets. Festival spokesman Hubertus Herrmann told the German Press Agency that there had been a few seats left for Parsifal […]

The Chinese violinist Luo Chaowen, 23, won first prize at South Korea’s Isangyun Competition last night, performing Brahms’ Violin Concerto. He’s studying at the Beijing central conservatory. Saxophonist Jason Xu, 19, a Chinese-Canadian student at the […]