Detroit Free Press — Evelyn Glennie, Mandy Harvey and Sean Forbes will lead "The Deaf and Loud Symphonic Experience" Dec. 16 with a program of Motown songs.             more info

Detroit Free Press — Evelyn Glennie, Mandy Harvey and Sean Forbes will lead "The Deaf and Loud Symphonic Experience" Dec. 16 with a program of Motown songs.             more info

Guardian Music — Danny Boyle's Olympic soundtrack was baffling at times, but was ultimately an inclusive and unpredictable triumphThose logging on to iTunes on Friday afternoon to preorder the Olympics opening ceremony soundtrack album weren't offered much help: just... more info

Guardian Music — Town Hall, CheltenhamPremieres are dotted through the Cheltenham festival programme as usual this year, but the first performance of Joseph Phibbs's Bar Veloce promised something more spectacular – a concerto for percussionist and ensemble, written... more info

The Telegraph — Out of Africa made Ivan Hewett feel simultaneously entranced and infuriated. Rating: Out of Africa: * * *; Festival Academy: * * * more info

Guardian Music — Information and lineups for the UK's best classical festivalsAldeburghWhen: 10–26 JuneWhere: Aldeburgh, SuffolkWho: Simon Rattle, Magdalena Kožená, Michael Schade, Ian Bostridge, Angelika Kirchschlager, Oliver Knussen, London Sinfonietta, Elliott... more info

Guardian Music — Can O Duo transcend some of the dross this genre has produced in the past?Percussion concertos. God love 'em. As those energetic rhythmicists Olly and Owen of O Duo tell me in today's paper, they hope the concerto that Stephen McNeff has written for ... more info

Guardian Music — If Evelyn Glennie gets her way, one day every orchestra will have a stone xylophone. Martin Wainwright on a strange musical experiment in YorkshireAs he chatted with friends last year under the grand portico of Leeds university, Dr Kia Ng, a special... more info

Buffalo News, New York — You would think that Dame Evelyn Glennie would be a diva. more info

Scotsman.com — IT'S a night out celebrating decades of Scottish music from Deacon Blue to Tommy Reilly, Evelyn Glennie to Eddi Reader, and Teenage Fanclub to The View. As a snapshot of S more info