Sheika, left and Pepi Gramshammer in the hotel they opened 45 years ago this week on Bridge Street in Vail, Colorado. The photo behind the couple is Pepi and Sheika on Vail Mountain the year the hotel opened. Full Article at Vail Daily

Marc Sackman will conduct the band in a range of music, opening with "The Overture from Candid" by Leonard Bernstein and "The Medieval Suite" by Ron Nelson, which is inspired by composers of the Middle Ages, including Leonin, Perotin and Machaut. Full Article at The Appleton Post-Crescent

The baton is a "living thing, charged with a kind of electricity," Leonard Bernstein once said, "which makes it an instrument of meaning in its tiniest movement." Full Article at MPR | Minnesota Public Radio

Photographer Walter Hilton Scott silently captured the most poignant moments of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s performances at Tanglewood over three decades. Full Article at Boston Globe

Across the bay, Berkeley Symphony's maestra Joana Carneiro wields a baton of rosewood and fiberglass, which she buys at a shop in Paris and cuts down to size herself. Full Article at San Francisco Chronicle

Fifty or 60 years ago, it was not unusual to see the name of the composer right up next to that of the producer or director in a movie's opening credits -- Max Steiner on "Casablanca," for example, or Erich Wolfgang Korngold on "Kings Row." Full Article at Variety

The classical-music world has a fraught relationship with fame. On the one hand, people are always pining for the days when Arturo Toscanini, Leonard Bernstein, and Leontyne Price dominated the airwaves and appeared on the covers of magazines. Full Article at The Daily Swarm

Be the first to comment! New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) will present Killer B's-American Song From Amy Beach to the Beach Boys at The Julliard School's Peter Jay Sharp Theater on January 13 at 8pm. Full Article at TheaterMania.com

“He may have been born in Hoboken,” Martin Scorsese writes of Frank Sinatra in the liner notes to this set, “but his music is unthinkable without New York and its energy, its elegance, its vibrance.” This collection — recorded at various New York... Full Article at NJ.com

The classical-music world has a fraught relationship with fame. On the one hand, people are always pining for the days when Arturo Toscanini, Leonard Bernstein, and Leontyne Price dominated the airwaves and appeared on the covers of magazines. Full Article at The New Yorker

THE South Chiltern Choral Society is busy rehearsing for the performance of a new work this Christmas. The programme will feature A Christmas Mass by the English composer Ronald Corp who is also director of the New London Orchestra. Full Article at Bracknell Forest Standard

Steven Schick will lead the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus in Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass” in three concerts at UCSD. - Bill Dean A standard symphony orchestra may utilize 80 or 90 players, and bulk up to 100 and beyond when performing Strauss or Mahler. Full Article at San Diego Union-Tribune

Hydzik has understudied the role since performances began on Feb. 23 at the Palace Theatre. Matt Cavenaugh created the role of Tony in the revival. His final performance will be Dec. 13. Full Article at Playbill

In 1956, the Leonard Bernstein musical "Candide," based on the story by Voltaire, opened on Broadway. In 1957, Buddy Holly and Sam Cooke made their national TV debuts on "The Ed Sullivan Show." Full Article at WFMY | DigTriad.com

Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue was always a Leonard Bernstein specialty. This is Part 1 of a 1976 performance in which he plays and conducts the London Symphony; Part 2 is here. Full Article at Down With Tyranny!

Berkeley Breathed’s return to Vashon Island Saturday will combine a rush of favorite memories and a chance to give back to a community he misses. “I can’t wait frankly. It should be a special night,” Breathed said from his home in Santa Barbara, Calif. Full Article at TheNewsTribune.com

“And the ‘Record of the Year’ is…” Diana Ross stands on the stage of the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. It’s 26 February 1985, the evening of the 27th Annual Grammy Awards. Full Article at PopMatters

The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Gustavo Dudamel has said he sees the conductor as more of a collaborator than a leader. Full Article at The National Newspaper

In April 1989, the glamorously autocratic Herbert von Karajan resigned from his post as music director of the Berlin Philharmonic, the West German ensemble he had led for 35 years and made into the most brilliant orchestra the world had ever known. Full Article at Los Angeles Times