The Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara has a wonderful tradition of presenting a community concert each summer, with all seats $10 for adults and free for young people 7 to 17 accompanied by ...

The British have always made much of their musical heroes, promoting them with a vigor that sometimes leaves critics on this side of the Atlantic unconvinced if not downright baffled. If you read ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. It is not easy to create a sensation with the Brahms symphonies. These ...

Established in 1991, RATTLE champions a diverse range of contemporary instrumental music that transcends the boundaries of jazz, chamber music, orchestral music, world music, and open-form soundscapes ...

Rattle was on great form here. The Symphonies of Wind Instruments always sounds austere, but Rattle was able to bring out its lyrical side too. To that end, he chose the original version of the score ...

The nominal reason for this concert was to premiere a new edition of the symphony, by the German conductor and scholar Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs (Anton Bruckner Urtext Gestamtausgabe, Vienna 2021). The ...

The Beatles aren't the only shaggy-haired musicians with a decades-long attachment to EMI. The venerable label is celebrating 30 years with conductor Sir Simon Rattle, music director of the Berlin ...

Darren Pickering is a jazz pianist/composer/educator, keyboard session musician, & a modular synthesist based in Christchurch NZ. His current projects include Darren Pickering Small Worlds (cinematic ...

The British conductor will take the helm of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2023. But he got a head start with three livestreamed concerts. By Joshua Barone In an evening of back-to-back ...