Nialler9 — Sounds From A Safe Harbour Festival in Cork in mid-September has already announced its big names The National and Bon Iver for the festival and today it’s revealed a prominent Aaron Dessner collaborator Lisa Hannigan as the next performer. Ha... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — The Danish National Symphony Orchestra rolled into Costa Mesa on Friday night as part of a quick, five-city tour of California. On the podium was the ensemble’s newly appointed Italian principal conductor, the widely traveled Fabio Luisi, perh... more info

AllHipHop — WATCH THE CHICAGO RHYMER RUN THROUGH SOME OF HIS HIT RECORDS IN DC more info

AllHipHop — COMMON TO LEAD THE NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA! READ MORE! more info

Nialler9 — Next Friday December 2nd, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and the award-winning LA-based Irish video games music composer and conductor Eimear Noone will collaborate for the very first time to perform a selection of video game tra... more info

Guardian Music — Italian composer follows recent Oscar win with deal for compilation album Morricone 60, to be performed with Czech National Symphony OrchestraAt 87 years old, most musicians might be thinking of putting their feet up and taking stock of their career ... more info

Stereogum — Kendrick Lamar will perform with Washington, DC’s National Symphony Orchestra next month (10/20) at the Kennedy Center, according to The Washington Post. The show will rework songs from Lamar’s recent album To Pimp A Butterfly, which seems like a... more info

ContactMusic — The Kennedy Center has announced its schedule of events for 2013-4 and amongst the more unusual musical treats that the center has planned includes... more info

Guardian Music — Pushkin, Dostoevsky and Chaliapin are among the Russian cultural icons whose St Petersburg dwellings have been preserved for posterityAn elderly woman, trudging slowly up and down the dilapidated stairwell of a once-magnificent mansion, is the only r... more info

Guardian Music — Influential conductor and teacher with a remarkable talent for inspiring his studentsGeorge Hurst, who has died at the age of 86, may not have been a household name on the podium, but the mark he made on British conducting of the past half-century wa... more info