For many decades Egypt was at the heart of Arabic music, and a pioneer of Western classical music practices in the Arab world. Egypt’s Golden Age (1950s-1970s) was known for setting trends and ...

An imposing basalt sarcophagus from about 600 B.C. gets pride of place in one gallery of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s illuminating new exhibition “Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World.” The ...

The scope of George Frideric Handel’s oratorio ISRAEL IN EGYPT is the Passover story. Handel premiered it in three sections: The Lamentation of the Israelites for the Death of Joseph, Exodus and Moses ...

Camille Saint-Saëns wrote his Fifth Piano Concerto in Luxor to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his debut. It's been known as the "Egyptian" ever since. We'll enjoy it tonight.

Moments after Sir John Eliot Gardiner - then Sir David Attenborough - had begged the crowd of sponsors to empty their pockets for the musicians, the choir of Israelites struck up their own prayers to ...

Egypt will mark its first Egyptian Music Day on Monday, 15 September, with more than 100 events across 80 venues in Cairo and other governorates. The day also commemorates the death anniversary of ...

Rüya Taner, the acclaimed Turkish pianist and Steinway Artist who recently performed in Cairo, spoke to Ahram Online about her musical journey, cultural roots, and the power of music in connecting ...

Monsieur Christie certainly had. On this form, the OAE and its muscular, disciplined yet flexible choir could gallop over the Red Sea, let alone right through it. Always a scholar but never a pedant, ...

Minister of Culture Ahmed Fouad Hanno designated 15 September each year as the "Egyptian Music Day". This year the date coincides with the 102nd death anniversary of The People's Artist - Sayed ...