It isn’t easy being the greatest orchestra in the world. Whether or not the Berlin Philharmonic really is that is not the issue so much as the expectation that it be the best. The arguments are ...

Update from the Berlin Philharmonic below (The last sentence, presumably, means: Yelling, but no fist-fights) and at this link: Voting for Chief Conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker Brings No ...

The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra's guest appearances at Disney Concert Hall this past weekend marked two homecomings. For conductor Simon Rattle, it was a return to the city where, barely out of his ...

Concert audio for this concert is no longer available. On Wednesday, Nov. 14, the Philharmonic performed Das Lied von der Erde in one of three concerts devoted to the final works of Gustav Mahler. The ...

On Monday, the musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic gathered at the Jesus Christus Kirche, in the Berlin suburb of Dahlem, to pick a new chief conductor. Unlike most ensembles of its kind, the ...

Munich Philharmonic will play concert, conducted by Lahav Shani, at German capital's famed Konzerthaus; Belgian PM slams ...

Twenty-five years ago, the 36-year-old curly-haired Liverpudlian conductor Simon Rattle led the Boston Symphony Orchestra in one of the greatest Mahler performances I ever heard. It was the then ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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On the morning after conducting the Berlin Philharmonic in two concerts at Carnegie Hall recently, Simon Rattle was in a car on the way to Boston and dialed up a reporter in California. “Oh, don’t ...

2004-07-14 04:00:00 PDT En route to Mainz, Germany-- Jeannie Psomas, a 16-year-old clarinetist on tour in Europe with the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, is keeping a diary for The Chronicle.