Over the next two weekends, the Whidbey Island Music Festival will feature six concerts of baroque and classical music played on period instruments.

Writing music for a major athletic event presented the composer Tan Dun with challenges that commissions for concert halls and opera houses do not.

The entrance to the Sony-Ericcson Sony Corporation factory in Ribeauville, eastern France, January 2008. Sony was set to take full control of the world's second largest recorded music company after German media giant Bertelsmann said it would quit their Sony BMG joint venture.

Warner Music Group Corp.

David Itkin prefers his music buffet-style. While some symphony orchestra conductors need to carefully coordinate their concert seasons, Itkin tries to offer something for everybody when he sits down to schedule a new season.