“There’s nothing more beautiful to me than a pit full of musicians,” violinist Sarah Darling remarked to me as she took her ...

This year’s Aldeburgh Festival – the 76th – takes as its motto a line from Shelley‘s Prometheus Unbound. The poet speaks of ...

Concert Club concerts are held in the King’s Hall on Wednesdays at 7.30pm. The brochure and application form for the 79th season is now available from the King’s Hall, Ilkley Library and the Tourist ...

Norman Ludwin. Music Department: Star Trek Beyond. Dr. Norman Ludwin is a Los Angeles native who began his musical studies on piano with lessons from his father, and moved to the string bass at age 11 ...

Giuseppe Verdi is known as one of the greatest opera composers, whose works today still command wide attention around the world. But he did write other music and his most ...

Summer Music Camps. USF Summer Jazz Camp: Honors Big Band: June 15-18, 2025. The Jazz Camp will include USF Jazz Faculty Tom Brantley (USF Jazz Ensemble I director and Trombone Studio Professor), ...

Each edition of the festival mounts as its centerpiece a fully staged revival of a near-forgotten opera—in 2025, BEMF chose ...

It's almost like there's a code embedded in Bartok's field recordings, and when the code comes out, it transforms the music. It transforms us. Ban's playing is at once dynamic, appealing, fun, ...

John McCormack, the acclaimed Irish lyric tenor and future Papal Count, entered the world in Athlone, County Westmeath, on June 14, 1884. Rising from a working‑class background, church‑choir ...