LONDON (Reuters) - Conductor Kristjan Jarvi sometimes imagines sitting in the audience for a concert and thinking that if he wasn't up on stage, he wouldn't want to be there. That's when he brings on ...

During the last couple of years music lovers in Rochester have relied on the Lyra Concert Baroque Orchestra for pre-Christmas renditions of "Messiah." But this year the Rochester Orchestra and Chorale ...

G. P. Handel’s “Messiah” was first performed in 1742 by a small choir accompanied by instruments including trumpets without valves and violins with bows made of sheep gut. To hear what the Messiah ...

Classical music fans often hear a signature piece by George Frideric Handel each December. Handel’s famous oratorio “Messiah,” and its beloved “Hallelujah” chorus, is a favorite during Christmas ...

Richard Kaufman has conducted hundreds of films with live orchestras: "Psycho," "Jaws" (and almost all of the John Williams’ scores for that matter), classics like “Casablanca” and “The Wizard of Oz,” ...

Festive music dominated Seraphic Fire’s program Friday night at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale. With a charming interlude from English master Henry Purcell, the main bill of fare ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Two performances, at Trinity Church Wall Street and the New York Philharmonic, were similar yet showed how beauty emerges in ...

Linda Wertheimer talks to Nicholas McGegan, music director of the Gottingen Festival in Germany. He will conduct Gloria in Excelsis Deo, a composition for soprano and strings by George Frideric Handel ...