Afghan-born singer Amir Vafa lifts his voice above the orchestra. “Oh, bitter pain!” he sings in near-perfect German. “My home! I shall never see you again!” The song, Das Heimweh (homesickness) by ...

Usually out of the headlines, the German symphony orchestra suddenly surfaced in conversation after it was revealed that the symphony conductor was fired over his support of Russian President Vladimir ...

A Belgian music festival has cancelled a performance by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra over a perceived lack of “clarity” on its Israeli conductor’s views on the Middle East conflict, sparking ...

German Culture Minister Wolfram Weimer has spoken of a "disgrace for Europe" after a Belgian festival canceled a performance by a top German orchestra to be given with an Israeli conductor. Organizers ...

I found the energy and the sense of fulfilment from music-making which every section of the orchestra conveyed irresistible. Holst’s The Planets showed, among many virtues, quite how strong German ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Flanders Festival Ghent, which attracts up to 50,000 people a year, said it had made the decision to cancel the concert, to be ...

A Belgian festival said Thursday it stood by its decision to axe a leading German orchestra's performance over concerns about its Israeli conductor -- despite furious protests from Israel and Berlin.