Unprecedented in my multi-decade experience of Handel Messiah concerts, the Dallas Bach Society audience last month started applauding after every aria and chorus. Two weeks later, there was applause ...

I was listening to Yo-Yo Maand Chicago Symphony Orchestra members perform a chamber concert in Pilsen recently, and the audience applauded between movements of a Brahms Quintet, and I thought: This ...

If you’ve ever attended a classical concert, you’ve probably experienced that awkward, hesitant half-clapping that sometimes occurs at the end of a symphonic movement: The music stops, the hall falls ...

The orchestra’s formal dress, the way it tunes. How the conductor bows, and all that walking on and off the stage. The typical classical music concert can seem full of arcane rituals that set it apart ...

Do you remember the first time you went to a classical concert? And how you viewed its peculiar rituals and formalities? Nobody talks during the music, and even an overly loud whisper can be you ...

♪ -♪ No! No! ♪ [ Applause ] ♪ He scandalized my name ♪ [ Cheers and applause ] [ Cheers and applause continue ] -For me, the significance of the concert is Kathleen Battle, Jessye Norman. They paved ...

It has been barely three weeks since I returned home from my annual Carnatic music adrenalin rush — a non-stop, round-the-clock festival of musicians of every hue displaying their skill across the ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. GORHAM — Upon hearing “Our Cast Aways,” a musical ode to rescue pets by a ...

Not since 2009 when the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra performed here, has a pair of orchestral concerts at the Esplanade been so keenly anticipated. Tickets for the London Symphony Orchestra's ...

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - The big showbiz news this week in the New York theater arena is Thursday's launch of the 2008 season of the indispensable "Encores!" series at the City Center, kicking ...