That is the question most often put to me when I tell people I have been writing about a women’s orchestra which played inside Auschwitz on a twice-daily basis – and which saved the lives of ...

The China Yearbook, available in both Chinese and English, emerged as one of the highlights at the London Book Fair held from March 11 to 13. As a definitive chronicle of China's development, this ...

There was a whiff of mystery around the startlingly brief tenure of the Philadelphia Orchestra’s new star trumpeter — just six months from the orchestra’s announcement of the “historic” hire to “we ...

Bill Ashton, who has died aged 88, co-founded the National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO) in 1965 and turned it into a breeding ground for musical talent, its alumni including the bandleader Guy ...

The orchestra’s history has always been tied up with its chief conductors who have included Wilhelm Furtwängler, Herbert Von Karajan, Claudio Abbado and Sir Simon Rattle. This mighty orchestra ...

March 5 (UPI) --The world's first -- and possibly only -- orchestra to exclusively make music from vegetable instruments was awarded a Guinness World Record after playing 344 concerts over the ...