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Tuesday, February 7: A Gilbert and Sullivan evening, featuring performances of The Pirates of Penzance and Patience (complete with spoken dialogue) by the D’Oyle Carte Opera Company.

DETROIT (AP) - The Detroit Symphony Orchestra has launched a webcast player that will allow music lovers to enjoy an upcoming performance of Mozart's Horn Concerto No. 4 and other concerts online for free in the comfort of their homes.

* Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269, "La primavera" (Spring) 1. Allegro 2. Largo 3. Allegro Pastorale * Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 8, RV 315, "L'estate" (Summer) 1. Allegro non molto 2. Adagio e piano – Presto e forte 3. Presto * Concerto No. 3 in F major, Op. 8, RV 293, "L'autunno" also known as the "Danza Pastorale" (Autumn) 1. Allegro 2. Adagio molto 3. Allegro * Concerto No. 4 in F minor, Op. 8, RV 297, "L'inverno" (Winter) 1. Allegro non molto 2. Largo 3. Allegro

ROWDY groups of teens are turning their ‘Bachs’ on a popular Birmingham city centre meeting spot – after police starting playing classical music for Christmas shoppers. The teenagers have moved on from the ramp leading from New Street to the Pallasades shopping centre since the music started being piped through the PA system. Officers said it was an unexpected result as the original aim was simply to pipe soothing classical music to ease harried Christmas shoppers. The ramp has for years been a popular meeting spot for gangs of teenagers and a source of a large number of complaints from...

On Oct. 22, 1811, Franz Liszt was born in the Hungarian (now Austrian) village of Raiding. His bicentenary follows hard on the heels of Chopin’s, last year, and anticipates Wagner’s and Verdi’s, in 2013. But whereas no one really doubts the greatness of Wagner or Verdi, and Chopin seems universally beloved, things are not so straightforward with Liszt. He was, to be sure, an unrivaled performer (“A god for pianists” in Berlioz’s words), a man of unusually catholic artistic interests and the 19th century’s nearest approach to a Hollywood superstar. But although he is surely significant enough to celebrate, the...

The quiet legend that was Kurt Sanderling is no more. Sanderling, a German refugee in Stalin’s Russia, grew very close to Dmitri Shostakovich during and after the Second World War. He was joint principal conductor of the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra with Yevgeny Mravinsky, effectively his deputy. He would get to conduct the second run of performances of each new symphony after his boss had given the premiere. Mravinsky, a man of deep reserve, had a cold and formal relationship with Shostakovich. Sanderling became a close friend. When I asked him once to talk about it, he refused. ‘I don’t like...

There is a new conductor-composer coming to the fore, and her name is Adina Spire. She has recordings of Vivaldi, Mozart, and others. I have linked a youtube of her conducting a part of the 4th movement of Dvorak’s 8th, and as you can see she conducts with energy and enthusiasm. I became acquainted with her through Soundclick, where she posted some of her own works, and where I have an account. She is on Facebook, and has more of her conducting efforts there as well.

Josef Suk, one of the best Czech violin virtuosi, grandson of composer Josef Suk (1874-1935) and great grandson of world-famous Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904), died last night at the age of 81 ...

Bernard Greenhouse, an internationally acclaimed cellist and a founding member of the Beaux Arts Trio, died on Friday at his home in Wellfleet, Mass., on Cape Cod. He was 95.

Classical music still effective at dispersing loitering teens April 4, 2011 | 9:00am With all sorts of the funding cuts hitting orchestras during the recent recession, there is still one aspect of classical music that local governments find valuable -- the music's unfailing ability to disperse loitering teenagers from public areas. Whether its Handel piped into New York's Port Authority or Tchaikovsky at a public library in London, the sound of classical music is apparently so repellent to teenagers that it sends them scurrying away like frightened mice. Private institutions also find it useful: chains such as McDonald's and 7-Eleven,...

Lee Hoiby, a composer of operas and songs that balance unabashed lyricism and careful craftsmanship, died on Monday in the Bronx. He was 85 and lived in Long Eddy, N.Y.

5:00PM Eastern / 4:00PM Central / 3:00PM Mountain / 2:00PM Pacific THE TURN OF THE SCREW BY BENJAMIN BRITTENSunday, March 20 at 2:00 PM     Join Classical KUSC Sunday afternoon at 2:00 for LA Opera On Air as we bring you a performance of Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw, live from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.  KUSC's Duff Murphy and Kimberlea Daggy are your hosts.

Milton Babbitt, godfather of American ascetic music, has died aged 94. He was far more than his music let on. A mathematician and wit, he once taught Stephen Sondheim, who spoke of him ever after with warm appreciation. In a 2004 interview, Sondheim said: 'Babbitt taught me what long-line composition is about, how to organise music over a span of time. It has to be the musical equivalent of a plot in a play.'

Dame Margaret Price, who was considered one of the world's leading sopranos, has died at the age of 69.

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John Alldis, who died on December 20 aged 81, was a distinguished choral conductor.

The nominees to receive the most prestigious awards in the music industry, the Grammy Awards, were just announced. Among the five nominees for Record of the Year is a song titled "F--- You," with the F-word, of course, spelled out and pronounced. Here are the song's opening lyrics: "I see you driving 'round town With the girl I love and I'm like, F--- you! Oo, oo, ooo I guess the change in my pocket Wasn't enough, I'm like, F--- you! And f--- her, too!" The next lyrics add the S-word: "I said, if I was richer, I'd still be with...

Anna Russell - The (First) Farewell Concert (1984) To end a long, hilarious career, classical music comedienne Anna Russell revived some of her best and funniest routines and took them on the road. This special PBS production, taped in Baltimore at the beginning of that 1984 tour, is a treasure for music lovers who understand that the thing they love can be charmingly goofy. The highlight of the disc, and the routine that most fans remember most fondly, is her discussion of the Ring cycle. She tells the convoluted story of Wagner's four-installment epic, with careful attention to its absurdities,...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Soprano soloist Helen Boatwright, who championed the performance of American song and recorded the first full-length album of songs by composer Charles Ives, has died.

Shirley Verrett, the vocally lustrous and dramatically compelling American opera singer who began as a mezzo-soprano and went on to sing soprano roles to international acclaim, died Friday morning at her home in Ann Arbor, Mich. She was 79.