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The New York Philharmonic said Sunday that it had decided to fire two key players -- its principal oboist, Liang Wang, and associate principal trumpet, Matthew Muckey -- for unspecified [...]

The JACK Quartet, which has emerged in recent years as a vital force in the new music world, is getting some new blood: the ensemble announced Tuesday morning that two [...]

The composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen will begin a three-year stint as composer in residence, and the bass-baritone Eric Owens will be named artist in residence. A Rachmaninoff festival will [...]

The Afro-Latin Jazz Alliance has announced that its founder, the pianist and composer Arturo O'Farrill, is now an artist in residence at the Harlem School of the Arts. He joins [...]

Two members of the Tokyo String Quartet, including its founding violist, will retire from the group at the end of next season, in June 2013, the ensemble said in a [...]

Ronan Tynan became a walk-on Yankee star in 2000, when he stepped onto the field with his artificial legs and clarion voice and belted out ''God Bless America'' during the [...]

The musicians of the Seattle Symphony have decided to donate their services for a gala honoring their longtime conductor, Gerard Schwarz, and his 25 years as music director, the orchestra […]

Hanna Arie-Gaifman, a pianist and music administrator who has directed several cultural organizations in Prague, has been appointed director of the 92nd Street Y Tisch Center for the Arts. The […]

Jonathan Van Meter has resigned as editor in chief of Vibe, a music magazine, noting 'creative differences' with officials at the publication. Time Inc. Ventures issued an announcement last week. […]

David Shifrin, the clarinetist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 1989, has been named artistic director of the society. The appointment, which the society announced yesterday, is […]

The cellist Fred Sherry said yesterday that he would resign as artistic director of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at the end of the 1991-92 season. Mr. Sherry […]

The casts of the Bolshoi Opera productions that are to be performed at the Metropolitan Opera and at Wolf Trap Farm Park in Vienna, Va., this summer have been announced […]

Deborah Borda was named managing director of the New York Philharmonic yesterday. She succeeds Albert K. Webster, who held the job from 1975 until January, and Allison Vulgamore, who has […]

LEAD: Two administrators with the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington have been named directors of programs at the endowment. Two administrators with the National Endowment for the Arts […]

Leon Fleisher, pianist and teacher, has been named artistic director- designate of the Tanglewood Music Center, Seija Ozawa, the Boston Symphony Orchestra's music director, announced yesterday. Mr. Fleisher will replace [...]

LEAD: Charles Wadsworth has announced that he will resign as artistic director of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center after the society celebrates its 20th anniversary in June 1989. […]

LEAD: Months before he officially becomes the music director of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Fred Sherry has already moved to put his stamp on an ensemble that […]

LEAD: Fred Sherry, a cellist and conductor, is to become artistic director of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in next June. Mr. Sherry, who is also the society's […]