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NEARLY two decades have passed since the ballerina Gelsey Kirkland blew the stage door open with her drug-laced memoir, 'Dancing on My Grave.' Her tale was a warning for an […]

The first public preview of 'Grendel,' the Los Angeles Opera's $2.8 million premiere by Elliot Goldenthal, went smoothly on Thursday night at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion after technical problems postponed […]

THE cost of commissioning music varies broadly, depending on the work's length, the size of its instrumentation, and the reputation and experience of the composer and of the group performing […]

THE road to conducting one of the world's great orchestras could have been arduous for a 4-year-old girl beginning to learn music on a homemade piano in Dandong, China, in […]

RUTH ANN McCLAIN, a flutist from Memphis, used to suffer from debilitating onstage jitters. 'My hands were so cold and wet, I thought I'd drop my flute,' Ms. McClain said […]

THIS summer, the backstage chatter at American orchestras is dominated by one subject: money. In the musicians' locker rooms, frustration is building as the salaries of orchestra executives and conductors […]

The pit was picked clean. The musicians of 'Man of La Mancha' had already removed photos, sweaters, electronic tuners, metronomes, instrument stands, and even the mattress for naps between shows. […]

THWACK. Splat. Dainty Japanese women pummeled, slapped and kneaded flesh in every corner of the room. Bodies smeared with Vaseline and pureed cucumber lay everywhere. Across the steamy bathhouse an […]