Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roger Norrington in 1996 - Ken Hively Sir Roger Norrington, who has died aged 91, was a leading figure in the period-instrument ...

He launched the orchestra with 13 members. Many had no musical background It wasn’t long before Álvarez was back in Sweden. He’d been tapped as the artistic director of El Sistema Sweden, based in the ...

An exploration of the orchestra conductor role history and artistic power behind shaping live symphonic music.

The Brown University Orchestra’s Conductor Paul Phillips’ sabbatical this semester marks the third time in the past 25 years the orchestra is under a temporary baton. Taking his place on stage as ...

It takes a village to raise a child” is a proverb that has served conductor Gregory D. McDaniel well. Thanks to musical educators and mentors, he knew he wanted to pursue a c ...

Maestro Michael Sand has been Angelo Moreno’s “Baroque Musical Mentor” for the past 30 years and what better way to express his thanks than by throwing a concert at the Richard Brunelle Performance ...

On Oct. 27, GBH 2 will broadcast the PBS documentary "Behind the Baton: A Conductor's Journey." It tells the extraordinary life story of the legendary Thomas Wilkins and his journey through the ...

I have found to my amazement that many music critics consider the conductor responsible only for the orchestra. This is totally wrong, though I regret to say that some conductors do leave the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Mahler, Stravinsky, Debussy and more: François-Xavier Roth and his ensemble, Les Siècles, are pushing historically informed practice into the 20th ...

(CNN) — Ron Davis Álvarez stood on a train platform in Stockholm, stunned by what he saw. The Venezuelan orchestra conductor was visiting Sweden as part of a university exchange program. He’d expected ...