With help from Beethoven and Brahms, the United States and Vietnam will engage in musical diplomacy this weekend when the New York Philharmonic debuts in the communist nation after a historic visit to Stalinist North Korea last year. The orchestra, one of the world's oldest, is to hold its first concerts in Vietnam Friday and Saturday at the Hanoi ...

The conductor of the New York Philharmonic wielded his baton as an instrument of diplomacy Thursday. His words, however, weren't all sweet. "You've learned the rhythm wrong!" Alan Gilbert told students at the Hanoi Conservatory of Music as they struggled through a tough section of Beethoven's ...

The New York Philharmonic said Thursday it was indefinitely postponing concerts planned in the Cuban capital Havana because of the US embargo on the communist-ruled island. Concerts had been penciled in for October 30 to November 2. However, the plan was shelved "due to existing US government restrictions on travel to Cuba which would affect project funders and supporters, without ...