FARGO - As far as maestros go, Darryl One walks to the beat of a different drummer. While many conductors have a history in musical performance or at least studied classical music from a young age, ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 14, 2023. The original video can be viewed here. Yannick Nézet-Séguin is a conductor operating at triple tempo, at once the director of ...

When you hear the word “conductor,” what—or who—do you picture? “It’s probably an older white man who looks very serious,” jokes Kevin Fitzgerald, the 32-year-old who is currently the Associate ...

John Eliot Gardiner, a renowned classical music conductor who has led some of the world’s most prestigious orchestras, said Thursday he was pulling out of all of his remaining 2023 engagements, days ...

In popular culture, it’s not often that classical music gets a spot in the proverbial spotlight. But more recently, two celebrated films have taken the subject up and earned critical and cultural ...

Women conductors are still in the minority. For America 250: The American Experience in music this morning, we will hear women taking the lead, from contemporary icon Marin Alsop to Antonia Brico, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seiji Ozawa conducting in Paris in 2000 - Garfield/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Seiji Ozawa, who has died aged 88, was one of the ...

Flicking through this box set will provoke a Proustian rush if you’re of a certain age. These recordings were mostly made for EMI, though Warner Classics have wisely kept the LPs’ original sleeve art, ...

LONDON — What is gay music? “It’s Charli XCX, Kylie Minogue and Elton John, but it’s also Tchaikovsky,” says Oliver Zeffman, the British conductor who is taking classical music on a world tour. He’s ...

LONDON (AP) — Prominent classical music conductor John Eliot Gardiner is pulling out of all engagements until next year after allegedly hitting a singer backstage following a concert. The British ...

I think the perceptions around classical music are shifting, in the sense that if you look nationally or globally, the old way of looking at a conductor — like this mostly European autocrat who’s very ...

The latest recording from Pygmalion, Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time” and works written for Anne-Sophie Mutter are ...