Acclaimed conductor Andrew Davis died Saturday, April 20, at Rusk Institute in Chicago from leukemia, after managing the disease for two years. He was 80.


Conductor Andrew Davis, who headed orchestras on 3 continents, dies at 80

Brazilian composer and pianist João Donato, who helped lay the groundwork for bossa nova but throughout his career defied confinement to any single genre, died Monday. He was 88.


Prolific Brazilian composer and pianist João Donato dies at 88

Andrew Lloyd Webber, the English composer who created the scores for blockbuster musicals such as "The Phantom of the Opera'' and "Evita,'' has written the anthem for King Charles III's coronation.


Andrew Lloyd Webber has written a new composition for Charles III's coronation

The Ballet Company of Gyor began rehearsing at a local Audi factory last month after being forced to shutter its rehearsal hall in response to soaring energy prices.  


Energy crunch forces Hungarian ballet company to move to car factory

"A Charlie Brown Christmas" became an indelible holiday tradition and so, too, has jazz musician Vince Guaraldi's composition, "Christmas Time is Here" for the animated TV special.


Jazzy 'Charlie Brown Christmas' soundtrack swings on after 58 years

The musical — a fixture on Broadway since 1988, weathering recessions, war and cultural shifts — will play its final performance in New York on Feb. 18, 2023.


'The Phantom of the Opera,' Broadway's longest-running show, will close next year

The U.S. singer says she won't perform at Verona's Arena this month because the theater recently mounted another opera that had performers in blackface.


Soprano Angel Blue plans to bow out of an opera after the venue staged a blackface show

Valery Gergiev had been represented since December 2020 by Munich-based Marcus Felsner, who started his own management company that year after leaving Opus3.


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