Brian Wise

In New York, London, Paris and other world cities, classical music organizations have honored the victims of the terrorist attack against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

New York's Department of Cultural Affairs is embarking on the first comprehensive effort to measure racial and ethnic diversity at the city's museums, venues and performance groups.

Broadway singer Kelli O'Hara may made it through NBC's technically-complex broadcast of ''Peter Pan Live" last month with no major snafus. But opera is inevitably a different story.

The violinist Leonidas Kavakos has sued a violin shop in Burbank, CA, claiming that the shop's owner snapped his bow, worth $80,000.

A couple's office romance drew attention during their orchestra's 15-month labor dispute, which ended last year.

After nearly three years in legal limbo, the government has finalized federal rules for bringing musical instruments onto commercial flights.

As the 2014 Classical Countdown concluded on Thursday morning after four days and 100 pieces, scores of comments had also piled up. Here's what you said.

Among the more than 450 passengers rescued from the ferry that caught fire in the Adriatic Sea on Sunday was the Greek soprano Dimitra Theodossiou.

Claude Frank, a pianist known for his elegant, patrician renditions of the Austro-German repertory, died on Saturday at his home in Manhattan.

The year 2014 saw the passing of conductors and singers, directors and composers, among others who contributed to classical music.

Classical music's fascination with Cuba has been sporadic but easy to spot. As a diplomatic thaw begins, here are a dozen pieces to consider.

The year 2014 saw plenty of highs and lows in classical music, as we hear from music critics Anne Midgette, David Patrick Stearns and Zachary Woolfe.

New York City Ballet announced on Tuesday that Andrew Litton will be its next music director.

As music critics assemble their best-of 2014 lists, another, probably very different barometer of musical taste has been revealed.

Eric Idle, the famous member of the absurdist-comedy collective Monty Python, talks with WQXR's Elliott Forrest about his work in comedy and classical music.

Next week our Conducting Business podcast will be looking back at 2014 with three top music critics. But first, we ask you to weigh in.

Hedge fund mogul Oscar S. Schafer, who has been the lead supporter of the New York Philharmonic's parks concerts since 2007, will become the next chairman of the orchestra's board.

There are still hoops to be jumped through, but it looks like, as Monty Python would say, New York City Opera is not dead yet.

For the first time in its 25-year history, the first place prize in the Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition has gone to a woman.

Anna Netrebko is responding to critics of a controversial donation she gave to a theater in Ukraine's breakaway Donetsk region, asserting that the gift was "not a political act."