You can’t get a better gig than this. Aretha Franklin, Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman will perform at Barack Obama’s swearing-in ceremony on the steps of the Capitol on Jan. 20. Poet and playwright ...

Millions of viewers heard a recording of the dulcet tones played by a celebrated quartet of musicians at President Barack Obama’s inauguration rather than the notes the group actually played. Carole ...

“I foolishly said that I’d think about if I wanted to do it,” the violinist said. “And Toby, my wife, said, ‘Are you out of your mind? You’re going to think about it?’ So I called back.” By Kathryn ...

If, like me, you thought there was something a little off with the performance of John Williams’s Oscar-grabbing inauguration theme, you were right. What we heard was a recording made two days prior.

Undeniably the reigning virtuoso of the violin, Itzhak Perlman enjoys superstar status rarely afforded a classical musician. Born in Israel and educated in New York, Mr. Perlman has earned respect ...

“Judge me by what I do, but don’t judge me by what I can’t do,” says Itzhak Perlman, world-class violinist and star of documentary “Itzhak.” Listening to Perlman play the violin, viewers might think ...

Yo-Yo Ma is 53. But as he sees it, he has the body of 97-year-old and the mental age of a 12-year-old. It’s an age spectrum almost as wide as the music web he has cast, making a career of performing ...

Headliners from the fields of classical music, jazz and Broadway joined forces to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine and show solidarity with its victims. By Matt Stevens and Javier C. Hernández ...