There are few things as annoying as being stuck on a tarmac in a cramped, packed plane for long periods of time.

Opera star Dame Kiri Te Kanawa has complained that female opera singers are starving themselves because they are under so much pressure to stay thin.

MARK GARVIN/BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE Hershey Felder explores the life and music of one of America's finest composers in "George Gershwin Alone," Hershey Felder has been tickling the ivories in homage to the great American composer in "George Gershwin Alone" for the past 13 years.

Steve Oda is a renowned sarode musician. The sarode is a fretless lute of 25 strings.

Four Orchestra members spontaneously performed a string quartet when their Beijing flight was stuck on the tarmac.

The concert on November 12 will see Mr Kennedy celebrate the works of the German composer Bach and jazz legend Fats Waller.

Vadym Kholodenko of the Ukraine has won the 14th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, just four months after the death of the contest's namesake.

The Stella Adler Studio of Acting has announced that the Eighth Annual Stella by Starlight Benefit Gala will be held tonight, June 10 at Espace in New York City.

Vadym Kholodenko , the 26-year-old Ukrainian pianist who donned a white bow tie and brought a Bass Hall audience bounding out of its seats after his Prokofiev concerto two days ago, took the gold medal in the Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition on Sunday night.

David Finckel is a founding member of the Emerson String Quartet. Journeys: Tchaikovsky, Schoenberg is his last recording with the group.