Roderick Cox, associate conductor with the Minnesota Orchestra, is the only African-American baton on staff at a major US orchestra. Now why is that?

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Daniel Barenboim shares with the composer a breezy agnosticism and a love for English moderation. His approach to

He pulled out of the Met’s Tosca because it meant spending too long away from his family. Australia, however, is no problem. He has taken

London musicians are putting on an Emergency Fundraising Concert for Juan Manuel Gonzalez Hernandez, a player in the BBC Concert Orchestra who is trying to get

The Turkish cellist Gülşah Erol was arrested at Kadıköy Metro Station accused of keeping a bomb in her cello case. She was handcuffed, locked in

From an interview with Erica Jeal in the Guardian today: Some of the (LSO) players asked whether I’d have taken the job if I had

Hartmut Haenchen has pulled out of Parsifal. The old dependable Marek Janowski (pictured) has taken over.

The Salzburg Festival is donating 50,000 Euro to facilitate musical education for Syrian refugee children in Jordan over the next two years. The money is the

The Austrian tourist board has issued nationality statistics as the city records its highest-ever tourist half-year. Most visitors came from Germany – 1.4 million nights

The German tenor has been named ambassador for the José Carreras Leukaemia Foundation. He will join a Munich gala concert in December. No, the other

All 80 members of the European Spirit of Youth Orchestra were rushed to the Santa Chiara Emergency Room in Trento, Italy, suffering from dehydration after an