Conductor Lorin Maazel, a child prodigy who later directed the New York Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony and the Munich Philharmonic, died on Sunday at the age of 84, according to music festival ...

The New York Philharmonic officially announced the appointment of Lorin Maazel yesterday as the orchestra's music director, beginning with the 2002-03 season. Maazel, 70, will be the Philharmonic's ...

The legacy of the “City of Champions” is more than Super Bowls, Worlds Series, Stanley Cups, NCAA Championships or superstars. It also includes Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra stars like Victor Herbert, ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Tributes poured in from the classical music world on Monday for Lorin Maazel, considered one of the most brilliant conductors of his generation, who died on Sunday at the age of 84.

Former Cleveland Orchestra conductor Lorin Maazel died Sunday at age 84. Maazel was born in Paris in 1930 and was a prodigy who began playing violin at age 5. He first performed with the Cleveland ...

On the eve of the New York Philharmonic’s departure on an Asian tour that will include a visit to Pyongyang, its music director, Lorin Maazel, suggested that Americans are not in a position to ...

Fanciulla had been different. For a start, there was Domingo (pictured right in Jonathan Miller's Scala production), bringing Juan Pons, the baritone playing the villain, to the brink of tears on ...

Nobody elicits a richer and more opulent tone from the National Symphony Orchestra than Lorin Maazel. At his best, he is the closest thing we have today to the late Leopold Stokowski -- a sonic wizard ...

CASTLETON, Va. -- The building looks like the setting for an opulent '80s television drama: stucco and lavish plantings; the driveway that sweeps up to the entrance; the cat crouching by the double ...

CASTLETON, Va. (AP) — Lorin Maazel, a world-renowned conductor whose prodigious career included seven years at the helm of the New York Philharmonic, died Sunday at his home in Virginia. He was 84.