All About Jazz — Facebook has been experimenting with virtual gifts and e-cards for several months and now music via LaLa is being added to the mix. In the U.S., according to Facebook: "You now will be able to purchase songs as gifts for your friends. The "Music and ... more info

Guardian Music — Musical arranger best known for his work with Nick DrakeIn his first year as a music student at Cambridge University, Robert Kirby sought to join Footlights, the undergraduates' fabled arts and drama club. He was turned down, but the events of that d... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonThere is something cheering about discovering Bohuslav MartinËšu's music, and about finding an imagination so quirkily yet lyrically buoyant. What's not cheering is the half-hearted way in which his 50-year anniversary has been ma... more info

Opera Atelier, Toronto will stage The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Performances will take place from APRIL 24 - MAY 1, 2010. "...the work shines like new. Seldom has Mozart's Figaro seemed so fresh and its comedy so sublime." ? more info

All About Jazz — Her first record was released before she was 10; later she toured with the L.A. Philharmonic and performed regularly at New York's Lincoln Center, featured in its Mostly Mozart Festival. Alicia de Larrocha's style combined poetic interpretation, g... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonGreat orchestras don't always get the great conductors they deserve, and vice versa – but, for the moment at least, the Chicago Symphony has Bernard Haitink as its principal conductor, and the arrangement seems to su... more info

Allmusic Blog — There are composers from the classical era who are so obscured in the shadows of Beethoven and Mozart that their contributions are barely recognized. Just recently some major recording projects have emerged that reveal the merits -- and some limitati... more info

Reuters — ROME (Reuters) - An Italian orchestra mainly composed of migrants brings a multicultural version of Mozart's The Magic Flute to Rome on Wednesday to open the city's arts festival amid a debate over a crackdown on illegal migration. more info

Stereogum — Phoenix's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had crossover written all over it from the first synth tones of "1901." And by now you know it's easy, like they did it all summer long. Which they did: raucous club shows, festivals, SNL , countless remixes, tal... more info

Chicago Tribune — Lyric Opera of Chicago is providing several ways for audiences to bone up on their Verdi, Puccini, Mozart and all the other composers represented in its 55th season, which begins Sept. 26 with Puccini's "Tosca."Lyric dramaturg Roger Pines will modera... more info