She had just been made executive director of the Baltimore Rock Opera Society. They fired her on the spot. Now, the lawyers are having a firled day.

The Last Ship is a deeply personal musical written and composed by international music icon Sting who grew up in a working-class family in a shipbuilding town in the North East of England, home to the ...

The article has nothing to do with classical music, or the arts – except this section: You must have heard the chants: Israel ...

The London-based pianist who has not performed ...

We had an exclusive report earlier that Steinway pianos were seen being moved out of the arts centre. Apparently they are getting rid of them all. Local reporter Sarah K. Burris tells slippedisc: ...

She became one of the most prominent harpsichordists, even though the harpsichord had long been viewed by the communist ...

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We are sad to report the death of Anna Picard, music critic of the Independent on Sunday until 2013, then freelance writer and Head of Communications and Repertoire Consultant at Opera Holland Park.

The Isidore String Quartet, which feared it might give up playing last month when founder-cellist Joshua McClendon decided to change career, has found a permanent replacement. She is Clara Abel, who ...

Stuttgart Opera has announced the death of Motti Kaston, a member of its soloists ensemble for 35 years. Kaston, who was 64, completed the Metropolitan Opera’s training programme in 1989 and won the ...

I first met Jerrold Northrop Moore in the early 1980s when he brought out the definitive biography Elgar: A Creative Life. Jerry, then in his 50s, dedicated the greater part of his life to tracing all ...