Arthur Rubinstein

It looks a little bit like a body board, and it does ride the waves — sound waves, that is. Meet the harpejji, a fretted string instrument invented and built in the Baltimore area. Coldplay bought one. A.R. Rahman, who composed the score to...

Robert Miles Parker, a free-spirited artist who sparked an architectural preservation movement in San Diego and translated the personalities of Los Angeles and New York into distinctive pen-and-ink drawings of their buildings, has died. He was 72. His...

Rick Schultz reviews Jeffrey Kahane in recital and with members of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra at Walt Disney Concert Hall...

Kennedy Center boss Michael Kaiser bemoans lack of excellence in the arts and says timid arts managers are to blame...

Obama to confer 2011 Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday; arts honorees are Yo-Yo Ma and Jasper Johns, the first visual artist to win since 1977....

Mom's in stress meltdown, the kids are fighting over the last cupcake, Uncle Bob is coughing up a lung as he carves the turkey, and your best friend just got text-dumped. Hello, holiday memories! 'Tis the season to beat sickness (not to mention...

One of the most prestigious honors in the classical music field, the Gilmore Artist Award, is handed out every four years to a pianist who has the potential to sustain an international career. Today, it was announced that Russian pianist......

Whatever you do, don't tell Russian soprano Marina Poplavskaya that her performance -- or any other artist's -- is "OK." She'd rather be hated than provoke no reaction at all. "This singer was terrific, and this singer was 'OK,' what do you mean by 'OK'?"...

The Beaux Arts Trio gave its first concert in the summer of 1955 at the Berkshire Music Festival in Massachusetts. The trio will close shop this summer at the same festival, now known as Tanglewood. But first the Beaux Arts has a lot of goodbyes to wave....

For three nights in October, the Los Angeles Philharmonic will get the kind of exposure orchestras dream of, but rarely—if ever—receive. Fewer than 7,000 people will attend the three gala concerts that open the Walt Disney Concert Hall, but...