The Dutch Jazz Orchestra is known for performing the obscure and neglected works of better-known composers, arrangers and bandleaders like Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, Billy Strayhorn, and Gerry ...

Thankfully, Mary Lou Williams' music has been getting "rediscovered" quite a bit over the past few years through reinvestigation of her sacred works, as well as her own solo and small group ...

One of the world’s leading orchestras fired its chief conductor Thursday after he was accused of sexual misconduct: The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam announced that it had terminated ...

AMSTERDAM, Aug 2 (Reuters) - The chief conductor at Amsterdam's renowned Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Daniele Gatti, has been fired because of allegations of sexual harassment, the orchestra said on ...

Irony of ironies: The only instrument in Ton Koopman's dressing room at Severance Hall is an upright piano. The cheerful Dutchman and admired Baroque specialist has hated the piano his entire life, ...

Bernard Haitink, one of the world’s most distinguished musical conductors who was acclaimed for his riveting and meticulous interpretations of the classical repertoire and led orchestras and opera ...