We know him as the man who wrote the music used at graduations, but in Britain, Edward Elgar means a lot more. It's the 150th anniversary of the composer who gave the British "Pomp and Circumstance" ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Two "lost" songs by British classical music composer Edward Elgar have been unearthed by researchers for a charity dedicated to the performance of his works. LONDON (Reuters) - Two ...

Before World War I, Edward Elgar’s music often sounded confident and grand. But the war changed him. Facing illness, the loss of friends, and an uncertain world, Elgar turned inward when he wrote his ...

Sixty amateur musicians to perform Elgar’s overtures at Malvern College on 9 May in a special Elgar Festival pre-event with support from the English Symphony Orchestra.

"I cannot do any real work with the awful shadow over us." English composer Edward Elgar wrote that to a friend during the dark days of World War I. He was living in a small cottage in Sussex. On ...

The 1912 Birmingham Musical Festival program was concluded by Elgar conducting his acclaimed composition 'The Apostles,' which had originally premiered at the same festival in 1903 An autographed ...

Even before cellist Yo-Yo Ma was named a Peace Ambassador by the United Nations in 2006, he’d already been bringing unlikely collaborators together. Yes, he’d been regarded as a masterful interpreter ...