Born in Vienna in 1912, ERICH LEINSDORF studied piano, cello, and composition at the State Academy of Music and at the age of twenty-two became assistant to Dr. Bruno Walter and later lo Toscanini at ...

Most people know a conductor stands at a podium and waves a stick to keep an ensemble in time. But what exactly does a conductor do? UC Davis Concert Band Director Pete Nowlen said he has three main ...

Jonathon Heyward, known as the “Converse Conductor,” became the youngest and the first Black music conductor and director for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in its 107-year existence. Now, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Laura Jackson is one of several guest conductors this season for the Southwest Florida Symphony. Whatever you do, don’t call the ...

PRAGUE — Libor Pešek, a Czech classical music conductor best known for leading the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for a decade, has died. He was 89. Pešek died on Sunday, said Jan Hasenöhrl, the ...

The Broadway musical wouldn't be very musical at all without a good conductor and arranger. Today, NPR's Tavis Smiley talks with Tony-nominated orchestrator Harold Wheeler, one of the best in the ...

Since Wieland and Wolfgang Wagner began redraping Grandfather Richard’s operas in modern scenic dress seven years ago, première audiences at the Bayreuth Festival have usually focused more on the ...

On the podium, all his movements are clipped and economical. Every muscle is under rigid control. But the moment the music stops, Conductor Igor Markevitch cuts loose. For quick relief from artistic ...

Broadway's music conductors aren't eligible for Tony Awards. But they're still vital to each show. The music conductors who make Broadway sing - but won't get Tonys Tonight, the Tony Awards – Broadway ...

After centuries of gender discrimination and a terrible time until even the late 20th century, women conductors are no longer the rarest form of musical Earthling. I followed the subject for decades ...

NEW YORK (AP) — When conductor replacements are needed, opera companies and orchestras scramble in a game of musical podiums, with one change causing a cascade. Several orchestras needed to make ...