Watch how Dubai Opera transforms its stage into an ice rink
Dubai Opera was staging Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker until 10 December 2016 on ice. Take a look at how they got the performance area ready for the … Read more
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Sounds of city life to be used to create symphony
Miami is the latest city to participate in an innovative new project which aims to create a symphony using sounds recorded by residents of a … Read more
Montreal Symphony Orchestra launches education programme for children
Montreal Symphony Orchestra (OSM) music director Kent Nagano announced the launching of a new education programme for young children this past week to introduce them … Read more
Violin built by soldier during First World War to be exhibited in Germany
A violin carved out of a cigar box by a German soldier during the First World War is soon to go on exhibition in Dresden, … Read more
Will the next great classical music composer be a computer?
Researchers at University of Washington released a dataset of classical music pieces called MusicNote Wednesday that facilitates machine learning of note patterns and automated note … Read more
Watch how this piano-violin duo performs from top of waterfall
The cleverly-named 92 Keys is a piano-violin duo made up of Trevor Loucks and Crista Guthrie. Loucks got the idea for shooting a music video … Read more
Syrian clarinetist tells story of conflict through music
Clarinetist Kinan Azmeh is currently touring with a 60-minute show called “The Home Within,” which combines music and visual art to tell the story of … Read more
Study finds music lessons improve brain activity in children
Findings from a study are helping researchers understand why music lessons are beneficial to children with autism and ADHD. After assessing 23 children, researchers identified … Read more
Bilingual babies better able to detect different musical notes
Research suggests that babies brought up bilingual find it easier to pick up different musical notes than their monolingual counterparts. The study compared babies brought … Read more
Sydney Opera House lit up with poppies to mark Remembrance Day
Today is Remembrance Day or Armistice Day, marking the anniversary of the conclusion of hostilities in World War I, one of the bloodiest conflicts in … Read more
BBC Philharmonic joins education project for disadvantaged children
Britain’s BBC Philharmonic was teaming up with the Orchestras For All to engage with young classical musicians facing challenging circumstances. BBC Philharmonic musicians joined in … Read more
Research shows music therapy reduces depression among children and adolescents
Children aged between 8 and 16 experience lower levels of depression if they receive music therapy. That’s one of the main findings to come out … Read more
Watch a mezzo soprano perform to airline passengers at 40,000 feet
Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins performed a rendition of “Somewhere over the Rainbow” to first-class passengers on a British Airways flight to Russia. Jenkins was joined … Read more
Violin made from Winston Churchill’s cigar box sells for more than £6,000
A violin made in the 1950s out of one of Winston Churchill’s cigar boxes sold for over £6,000 in a recent auction. Self-taught violinmaker William … Read more
Project to use music to track melting ice in Antarctic
A composer was in the Antarctic with a scientific exhibition to collect data that will be used in the creation of a piece based on … Read more