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Grammy-winning pianist Earl Wild, who learned his craft from students of Liszt and Ravel and became one of America's masters of the keyboard, has died at age 94.
Itzhak Perlman was afflicted with polio when he was 4. Now, 60 years later he's helping to rid the world of the disease.
With the crack of a whip and a blast of fresh air, a new era has begun for the nation's oldest orchestra.
Like any great musician, Stanley Drucker has his timing down.
The YouTube Symphony got to Carnegie Hall.
Mark O'Connor was haunted.
The auditions are over. The first YouTube Symphony Orchestra — selected by viewers of the Web site — will consist of more than 90 musicians from some 30 countries.
"The Soloist," the upcoming movie about a cellist who became homeless, has struck a chord with American orchestras. They are mobilizing to help feed the hungry.
Gabriela Montero says she and the other members of the Obama inauguration quartet were not trying to fool anybody by having recorded music played in the biting cold.
It was written by an iconic American movie composer and performed by a quartet direct from central casting — in front of a worldwide audience of millions.
There's a new way to get to Carnegie Hall — YouTube, YouTube, YouTube.
The last time they shared a Lincoln Center stage, violinist Gil Shaham wielded the big smiles as Gustavo Dudamel made his conducting debut with the New York Philharmonic.
Leonard Bernstein was as much a teacher as a conductor and composer. Now, the post boomer generation — Bernstein's musical grandchildren — have taken the stage, and perhaps just in time for classical music.
You're the new music director of the nation's oldest orchestra, so what do you plan for your opening concert?
After musical trips to Appalachia, Brazil, Argentina, the Silk Road and baroque and modern Italy, Yo-Yo Ma has embarked on a spiritual journey.
They threw a birthday party for him, and it wasn't even his birthday.
From uptown to downtown, Sir James Galway charms the crowds.
What's black and white and red all over?
He can't sing and he can't dance, but Gabriel Byrne can charm — and he did while portraying the chivalrous King Arthur in "Camelot."
Lorin Maazel will close out his seven years as music director of the New York Philharmonic by conducting Mahler's "Symphony of a Thousand."
It's not unusual for members of a New York audience to leave early, but they stood their ground at Lincoln Center. And stood and stood.
"'Hey Jude,'" someone in the audience yells out.
Jay Greenberg, the kid composer who got a big-time recording contract in the summer of 2006, has scored again: His violin concerto had its world premiere at Carnegie Hall with Joshua Bell as soloist.
There were no boos for one of opera's biggest cads.
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