classical music

Comedy had traditionally played little part in French opera. Lully soon eliminated comic episodes from his tragedies; from then until the appearance of this work, only a handful of operas had comic themes. The theme […]

Conserving a delicate Renaissance drawing – Royal Collection Kate Stone, Paper Conservator for the Royal Collection,  demonstrates the extraordinary skill and fine workmanship required to repair an ancient document. This is another of those ‘how […]

The Atlanta gadfly music critic Mark Gresham reviewed the Mozart C minor Mass: … Stutzmann’s conducting visibly lacked precision, which was evident right from the opening bars, where the violas were not quite in sync. […]

Dinin Arts and Epstein Fox Performances have formed a partnership that unites the Dinin Arts roster and EFP’s classical division. EFP has a big hitter in Terence Blanchard. Dinin does good string quartets. Here’s the […]

The US violinist has announced she is still struggling after several months to recover from a trapped nerve. She has been replaced on the Berlin Phil tour at the last minute by the Norwegian Vilde […]

The funeral will take place tomorrow of Marco Bergonzi, son of the great tenor Carlo, who spent his later years at Marco’s hostelry in Bussetto, Verdi’s birthplace. Marco’s hotel is named I due foscari. Marco […]

Couldn’t make it up? From Yale Daily News: Daphne Brooks, professor of African American Studies and music, will teach a new class titled “Beyoncé Makes History: Black Radical Tradition History, Culture, Theory & Politics through […]

The Danbury Savings Bank of Connecticut is to be known from today as the Ives bank, after the town’s most famous son. The bank was founded in 1849 by George Ives, grandfather of the composer, […]