Janos Gereben

Live and free of charge today (March 19), beginning at noon PDT, the video of Junge Deutsche Philharmonie's performance of the symphony will be streamed on the Berlin Philharmonic's Digital Concert Hall. Registration is required, but it's free and the site doesn't send spam too frequently.

When Diablo Symphony's Matilda Hofman strikes up the band for the first time in her capacity as music

"I make dances because I can’t help it,

Of all responses to the news about Kiri Te Kanawa's scheduled appearance on Downton Abbey, my favorite comes from Geoffrey Blum.

He writes that Petula Clark would have been a better choice:

Here are just a few of the hundreds of comments on the web and in e-mails I received.

In the ongoing story about arrests for the