Had the pandemic scourge not showed up, the planned 2020 performance by the British Chineke! Orchestra would have valiantly broken a cultural color barrier in Santa Barbara. The intrepid and important ...

"It is not that the Englishman can’t feel -- it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow or even open his ...

The opening concert of this season’s Castleton Festival comes to the Music Center at Strathmore direct from Toronto, where it inaugurated the brand new Black Creek Festival. The program unites ...

The third concert of the Aiken Symphony’s masterworks season is devoted to the music of a single country, the United Kingdom. Indeed, all four works to be performed on Feb. 3 are meant to conjure up ...

The Moravian Autumn music festival opens Sunday in Brno, celebrating the 100th anniversary of Sir Charles Mackerras, famed British conductor and Czech music champion.

Marin Alsop, the first woman conductor to head a major British orchestra, says she expects to be appointed music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Pending approval of a contract, which was ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cleveland Orchestra is not going gentle into that good night. Instead, it’s entering the holiday season with what may be the most boisterous performance of the year. No serene ...

Testy old (71) Sir Thomas Beecham was in a mellow mood. With the 105 members of his Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, he had cleared the brambles of the U.S.’s new Security Act without a scratch, while ...

A Sea Symphony is a piece which ushered in a new era of British 20th-century choral music. Inspired by Walt Whitman’s poetry ...

His work, largely unknown outside Britain until late in his career, was often based on historical treatises. It was seen by many as refreshingly innovative. By Allan Kozinn Roger Norrington, the ...