Leonard Slatkin

This is the ACC’s chance, a unique, seemingly fated, three-weekend window to lure Notre Dame into a conference with more Irish connections than a Kennedy compound barbecue. The opportunity starts Friday when Notre Dame’s football traveling...

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is all about brand-new this month. Two weeks after premiering David T. Little's Baltimore-inspired "Charm," the BSO is set to premiere another commissioned work — "Chuphshah! Harriet's Drive to Canaan," by James...

Biden pushes Obama to declare gay marriage support, then offers his apologies WASHINGTON (AP) — Sorry, Mr. President. After nearly single-handedly pushing gay marriage to the forefront of the presidential campaign and inadvertently pressuring...

Mark Swed looks back at the Liszt year....

Mark Swed reviews the Los Angeles Philharmonic's numinous performance of Saint-Saëns' "Organ Symphony," conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya and Liszt's Second Piano concerto with Jean-Yves Thibaudet as brilliant soloist....

Mark Swed reviews the Los Angeles Philharmonic debut of James Gaffigan, the latest impressive young conductor on a career fast-track to drop by Walt Disney Concert Hall....

Darthea Redding Kerr, a soprano vocalist who worked as executive assistant to the National Symphony Orchestra and personnel manager of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, died Aug. 16 of cancer at her home in Essex. She was 61. Mrs. Kerr was born in...

Jim Parsons, who stars in TV's "The Big Bang Theory," is in talks for a Broadway revival of "Harvey." "Finding Neverland," the new musical that was canceled at the La Jolla Playhouse, will have workshop productions in London....

Gregory Ruffer, who Central Floridians remember fondly as founder of the Orlando Chorale, has a new job. Ruffer, who also worked with Orlando Ballet and Orlando Opera, will be artistic director of the Patel Conservatory Youth Orchestra at Tampa's Straz...

In his last two turbulent years Leonard Slatkin saw himself skewered for an opening-night performance at the Met and months before that scandal he suffered a heart attack on the podium in Rotterdam. And then there was that strike in Detroit....

Leonard Slatkin returned to the Hollywood Bowl Tuesday night to fulfill the Los Angeles Philharmonic's obligation to celebrate Liszt's 200th birthday, which is this. Long-time Lisztian André Watts was soloist in the Second Piano Concerto....