All About Jazz — 82nd Annual Academy Awards BEST MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE) "Up" Michael Giacchino "Avatar" James Horner "Fantastic Mr. Fox" Alexandre Desplat "The Hurt Locker" Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders "Sherlock Holmes" Hans Zimmer BEST MUSIC (ORIGINAL SO... more info

Guardian Music — Leading British tenor committed to the theatrical dimension of the operatic stageWith the death of Philip Langridge from bowel cancer at the age of 70, the musical world has lost a singer widely regarded as one of the finest tenors of his generation... more info

The Telegraph — Charles Moore savours the extraordinary scholarship and lack of egotism in The Book of Praises, part of the artist Roger Wagner's project to illustrate all 150 psalms. more info

All About Jazz — U2, Paul McCartney and Mary J. Blige are among those who miss out on the short list. While T Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham are up for "Weary Kind (Theme From 'Crazy Heart')." Oscar noms -- who got snubbed? By most criteria, Paul McCartney and U2 h... more info

Guardian Music — Venezuelan youth orchestra also among highlights as London Philharmonic refuses to let embezzlement woes dampen seasonA major celebration of the work of Gustav Mahler and a return of a Venezuelan youth orchestra that took London by storm last year, a... more info

Guardian Music — Wagner was touching on age-old truths about time and space in Parsifal. Halfway up a Scottish peak, I finally understood what he meantI've found the holy grail of the knights of Monsalvat, from Wagner's Parsifal. And I found it not in northern Spain,... more info

Mjsbigblog — This week, Season 8 Top 36 contestants, Brent Keith, Felicia Barton, Ricky Braddy, Ann Marie Boskovich and Alex Wagner Trugman perform at 3rd and Lindsey in Nashville, TN, with proceeds to help fund Haiti relief efforts. Kris Allen continues his m... more info

The Independent — A scandal of Wagnerian proportions has engulfed Salzburg's music festival, just weeks before Sir Simon Rattle conducts the German composer's opera Götterdämmerung, a tale of corruption and downfall that now seems particularly apt. more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — The composer, like his music, was complex. That will be a big topic of Ring Festival L.A. Among the copious anecdotes that Leon Botstein likes to relate about Richard Wagner and his ... more info

All About Jazz — ORIGINAL SONG U2, Paul McCartney and Mary J. Blige are among those who miss out on the short list. By most criteria, Paul McCartney and U2 have little reason to regard French composers Reinhardt Wagner and Frank Thomas with envy. But Tuesday, W... more info