Unprecedented in my multi-decade experience of Handel Messiah concerts, the Dallas Bach Society audience last month started applauding after every aria and chorus. Two weeks later, there was applause ...

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I was listening to Yo-Yo Maand Chicago Symphony Orchestra members perform a chamber concert in Pilsen recently, and the audience applauded between movements of a Brahms Quintet, and I thought: This ...

If you’ve ever attended a classical concert, you’ve probably experienced that awkward, hesitant half-clapping that sometimes occurs at the end of a symphonic movement: The music stops, the hall falls ...

Do you remember the first time you went to a classical concert? And how you viewed its peculiar rituals and formalities? Nobody talks during the music, and even an overly loud whisper can be you ...

The orchestra’s formal dress, the way it tunes. How the conductor bows, and all that walking on and off the stage. The typical classical music concert can seem full of arcane rituals that set it apart ...

Ebersole (Grey Gardens, Blithe Spirit, 42nd Street), who appeared in the City Center Encores! staging of Strouse's musical Applause, headlines the 8 PM Applause! Applause! gala performance. Strouse, ...

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - The big showbiz news this week in the New York theater arena is Thursday's launch of the 2008 season of the indispensable "Encores!" series at the City Center, kicking ...

LEWISBURG — Concerts scheduled throughout the year will bring music into a building with the acoustics to let the melodies be heard at their very best. The First Baptist Church of Lewisburg has ...