Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, nicknamed “Eroica,” turns up with regularity on any orchestra’s playlist. So its inclusion on a Baltimore Symphony Orchestra program in October 2012 suggested business as ...

Conductor Kurt Masur, who was credited with helping prevent violence after the collapse of communism in East Germany and later reinvigorated the New York Philharmonic during an 11-year stint as music ...

Kurt Masur, considered one of the last “old-style maestros,” was a famed German conductor who rebuilt the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and led Leipzig’s Gewandhaus. His musical prowess was ...

BERLIN (AP) — German conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch, acclaimed for his musical brilliance and unpretentious leadership of the Bavarian State Opera and the Philadelphia Orchestra, has died. He was 89.

reporting from BERLIN — Conductor Kurt Masur, who was credited with helping prevent violence after the collapse of communism in East Germany and later reinvigorated the New York Philharmonic during an ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Opera singer and ...