André Watts

Mark Swed looks back at the Liszt year....

Pianists Lang Lang and Andre Watts and cellist Alisa Weilerstein are key soloists for the Pacific Symphony's 2012-13 season. The annual American Composers Festival will focus on the music of Duke Ellington....

Al Pacino and Andre Watts are among the National Medal of Arts winners announced Friday. President Obama will confer the awards on Monday at the White House....

Leonard Slatkin returned to the Hollywood Bowl Tuesday night to fulfill the Los Angeles Philharmonic's obligation to celebrate Liszt's 200th birthday, which is this. Long-time Lisztian André Watts was soloist in the Second Piano Concerto....

Guest conductor Bramwell Tovey and the Los Angeles Philharmonic welcomed their Walt Disney Concert Hall audience back from the holidays Thursday with in-your-face renditions of two massive works: the rarely played “London� Symphony of Ralph Vaughan...

Here's a glimpse of the production of Beethoven's opera "Fidelio" that Carl St.Clair says was the deal-breaker that led to his resignation last month as general music director of the Komische Oper Berlin, less than two years into his six-year......

There’s a light and dark theme running through the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s 2013-2014 season, which includes works dealing with great loss, as well as great compassion. “Sometimes through tragedy, whether a world war or a...

The Broadway hits "Spring Awakening," "Spamalot" and "Dreamgirls;" mirth and memories from the likes of Whoopi Goldberg, Shirley MacLaine and Don Rickles; the vocalism of Mandy Patinkin, Idina Menzel and Bernadette Peters; as well as dates with Michael...

 Robert Vodnoy doesn't stay in one place very long.   Vodnoy is a full-time music professor at Northern State University, where one of his main jobs involves running the Aberdeen University/Civic Symphony. He is in his fourth season as conductor of the...

OCTOBER Today -- New World Symphony Chamber Music Series. Orion String Quartet. Nielsen, Grieg, Mendelssohn, 3 p.m. Lincoln. Today -- Frost Chamber Players. Bruch, Schubert, Bartok, Gershwin, 3 p.m. Festival Miami at Gus-Hall. 10 -- Frost Symphony...

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...