Guardian Music — Spitalfields Music is a double winner; Mitsuko Uchida wins gold medal; and Radio 3's Hear and Now 50 is rewarded at classical music's annual awards ceremonyClaudio Abbado and Maurizio Pollini – two great veterans of the Italian classical music worl... more info

Perez Hilton — Miranda Richardson and Imelda Staunton have been cast in Maleficent, a live-action retelling of Sleeping Beauty given the "Wicked treatment." Angelina Jolie plays the evil misunderstood Maleficent, the arch-enemy to young Elle Fanning’s narcoleptic... more info

Guardian Music — Arts Council England has announced the winners of bids to run each hub across nearly every local authority area in the country. But this is only the beginning for musical provision ...All hail the hubs! Well, that will be the hope, if you've anything... more info

Dlisted — The Guitar Pee Urinal - Billboard Brasil installed a working guitar and amp in a urinal at Sao Paolo's Bar Aurora so that drunks can become a regular P.P. King, Pissy Hendrix or Pee Townshend with their piss streams. (Kim Kardashian will start h... more info

Perez Hilton — YES!! We LOVE this idea - a million times over. Elle Fanning is in serious talks to be Aurora in the live-action Disney retelling of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale. Maleficent will be the story as told through the eyes of the evil sorceress — pl... more info

Guardian Music — The opposing tensions in Sibley's dancing at a key moment in Ashton's The Dream are central to a defining performanceThere are individual moments in certain roles that are always key for me, and the way a dancer executes them will always influence ho... more info

Guardian Music — This weekend, we've joined forces with the Roundhouse and A Room for London to bring you live streams of four concerts. From Imogen Heap to the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Heiner Goebbels, here's what we have coming upWe've joined force... more info

Guardian Music — ACTFinland's Verneri Pohjola got five stars in these pages last year for his sumptuously colourful big-band album Aurora. Ancient History is for the trumpeter's quartet with the daring pianist Aki Rissanen, and though it isn't as atmospheric, it has ... more info

Guardian Music — Richard Strauss: MetamorphosenMichael Gordon: Gotham (with film by Bill Morrison)Bernstein (arr Iain Farrington): West Side Story Symphonic Dances19:00 Live stream starts19:30 The concert begins21:15 Concert endsView or download the concert's program... more info

Guardian Music — View the Aurora Orchestra's programme for Saturday 25 February's Reverb festival concert. If you want a copy of the programme, then you can download it here more info