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 ...

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 ...

BERLIN (AP) — Conductor Kurt Masur, who was credited with helping prevent violence after the collapse of communism in East Germany and later reinvigorated the New York Philharmonic during an 11-year ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The future director of the Hamburg State Opera, Christoph von Dohnanyi (L), and the then Hamburg Senator for Culture Dieter ...

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.

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 ...