Fifty-eight years ago, an aspiring young musician named Andres Segovia walked onto the stage of Orchestra Hall to offer a tiny audience one of the first classical guitar recitals ever heard in America ...

What began in 1993 as a one-time festival celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of revered Spanish guitarist Andres Segovia, has become an example of the genre-spanning power of classical ...

When young Andrés Segovia told his instructors at Spain’s Granada Musical Institute that he wanted to study the guitar rather than the piano or violin, they sniffed. The guitar was an instrument for ...

Much as Andres Segovia brought the classical guitar into the concert hall, the Israeli virtuoso Avi Avital is doing the same with the mandolin. On Thursday, Avital makes his Los Angeles Philharmonic ...

Jan. 4 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1853, Solomon Northrop regains his freedom following his kidnapping and being sold into slavery. He would later write a memoir, 12 Years a Slave, which would ...