Sviatoslav Richter

Centre College’s Norton Center for the Arts will host the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of conductor Roman Leontiev and featuring acclaimed pianist Alexander Pirozhenko. The concert is set for Friday. Founded in the years...

There are no tuxedos, no ushers, no raised stage here -- just a few thrift-store couches, some beach chairs, a table covered with half-eaten pies and bottles of wine and a dozen nudes and seascapes leaning against the walls. A few hundred people, gathered...

I do not unconditionally celebrate the Internet, particularly its intrusion into classical music. As replacements for the record store, Amazon and iTunes have become necessary evils. Typical commercial downloads are sonic shadows of the superior sound...

Without saying a word, teenager Yamile Cruz seats herself at the grand piano, places her slender fingers on the keyboard and, after a brief pause, unleashes a torrent of sound one might expect from a virtuoso twice her age and size. Though the battered,...