Kurt Masur

Mark Swed reviews the first Los Angeles Philharmonic performance of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis in 32 years. The wise and commanding performance was led by the 85-year-old conductor Herbert Blomstedt....

Richard S. Ginell reviews Kurt Masur, Sarah Chang and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall...

Does playing classical music keep teens away? Actually, yes....

Gustavo Dudamel throws himself into his conducting during his inaugural performance at Walt Disney Concert Hall as new music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times / October 8, 2009) Through the generosity and...

The death of Ernest Fleischmann, former executive director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, offers a nice point of departure for a few musings about how casually we treat the past. About a year ago, I noticed a trash cart full of files next to a freight...

The sunny Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly has a knack for landing where you’d least expect him and making a go of it. He is music director of what used to seem the eternally starchy Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. They began a......

Kurt Masur, the renowned German conductor, is withdrawing from concerts through the end of June after falling off the podium last week during a concert in Paris and injuring himself. His official website states that a scan of the conductor's left shoulder...

It's the building Beijing residents love to hate. The dome of the new National Center for the Performing Arts glows luminescent as it emerges from a reflecting pool like a pearl or a rising sun. At least that's the impression the French architects of...

This summer will mark Seiji Ozawa's last appearance at Tanglewood as the Boston Symphony Orchestra's music director. He takes the baton at the Vienna State Opera later in the year. Tanglewood audiences will celebrate Ozawa's 29 years as the BSO's...

ASTON MAGNA FESTIVAL July 6 - Works of Mozart and Haydn. Nancy Armstrong, soprano; Peter Sykes, keyboard. July 13 - Works of J.S. Bach and Vivaldi. Sharon Baker, soprano, and Stephen Hammer, soloist, joined by instrumental ensemble led by violinist...

The following is a list of classical music performances: Bach Festival Society of Winter Park The festival will be from Feb. 18 to March 5 in the Knowles Memorial Chapel, Rollins College campus, Winter Park, featuring the Bach Festival Choir and...

On Dec. 7, 1992, the New York Philharmonic celebrated its 150th anniversary by unveiling a poster it had commissioned from Robert Rauschenberg. An attractive, if slightly innocuous, silk-screen collage, it is instantly recognizable as a Rauschenberg. In...