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The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross Farrar Straus and Giroux Dollars 30, 640 pages The Making of Music: A Journey With Notes by James [...]

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 […]

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 […]

MONTREAL _ A Picasso retrospective is often ho-hum for 21st-century art critics. Yet, here I was, traveling nearly 3,000 miles to Montreal for "Picasso Erotique," a devastatingly important exhibition of […]

Standing in the 2-acre Great Court, I watched wispy clouds drift above the glass ceiling of the grandly expanded British Museum, covering what has become Europe's largest public square. The […]

Coffee table books aren't merely pretty faces anymore. There was a time when such oversized books served more as props, indicators of one's cosmopolitan breeding that were dusted and meticulously […]

Focuses on the 1994 graduates of Julliard School in New York City. Comments of the music conservatory graduates; Why, ten years after graduation, some have chosen professions other than music; Information on the graduates; How nearly half have dropped out of performing; The difficulties for classical musicians living in a society that seems increasingly to be pushing classical music to the margins; Individual accounts of Mark Inouye, Ittai Shipira, Gwen Appel, Justine Flynn, and others; Orchestras in which they play. INSET: 10 Years Later, a Class Realizes Its Goals, or Changes Them.

Looks at the prospect and future of the Hudson Valley Philharmonic Orchestra (HVPO). Background of the HVPO; Information on some of the concerts performed by the group.