Music and Arts

The world of classical music has definitely become a lot less interesting since the passing of Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. When I was in m...

This has been a bad year for conductors. Seiji Ozawa, recovering from oesophageal cancer, has been cancelling concert for more than a year....

Well, its official – the folksong Beautiful Jasmine Flower is now being blocked by China ’s internet firewall. According to the latest issu...

To sit in front of a great orchestra, under a great conductor, and experience the music making, is an indelible experience. When I was a tee...

A wonderful celebration of music took place in Vancouver this past Sunday. Pianist Ingrid Fliter gave a recital of music by Haydn, Beethove...

A musician’s autobiography is often as revelatory about the artist as well as the human being. Musical memoirs roughly fall into two catego...

So Lang Lang played at the White House state dinner for Chinese Communist leader Hu Jin-Tao. As an encore, Lang played a Chinese song, My M...