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The Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of music director and conductor Mary Woodmansee Green, will inaugurate the holiday season Sunday and Monday with "Vienna!", a show made up of a classic ... via Island Packet

“It started with some considerable debt. ”

MISSOULA, Mont. &#8212 A lot can go wrong with a performing arts complex. When the small resort community of Bushkill, Pa., committed to build the $37 million Mountain Laurel Center, it envisioned regular ... via Pocono Record

What better way to celebrate the holidays than with music. And in a music-rich city like Tucson, there's an endless variety, from classical to contemporary, with a few twists: - Music in the Canyon - 5-9 p.m. ... via AZNightBuzz.com

At Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto on Wednesday The Toronto Symphony Orchestra dubbed Wednesday's concert A Czech Journey - even though, as conductor Peter Oundjian admitted onstage, none of the works presented ... via Globe and Mail

“Sometimes you can sing it through, sing it through perfectly, it's not a problem. But I think that she lived with it and realized that when you infuse it with the drama and everything else that goes with it, it just wasn't the best choice for her.”

Renee Fleming has decided to ditch plans to perform Bellini's opera "Norma" because the role "just didn't fit," her publicist said. via Contra Costa Times

“I hope it will provide massive encouragement for young people to follow a scientific career which is of incredible importance”

In a glitzy ceremony at the Hyatt Regency, Laureate Professor John Ralston and Niki Vasilakis were chosen as the South Australian and Young South Australian of the Year. via AdelaideNow...

“We're going to discover another many great works of art this year”

Dana Hughens, 919-457-0749 dana.hughens@fleishman.com NOTION Music, Inc., creators of NOTION music composition and performance software, has kicked off the second annual Realize Music Challenge. via PR-inside.com

“There's very few records an artist makes, but there are a hell of a lot of records musicians make.”

Garth Brooks and Vince Gill got to be Elvis, Peter Frampton assumed the role of Stevie Wonder, and George Jones was ... well ... George Jones, although all would agree that the backing musicians were the real ... via WJPS-FM Evansville

“I think this is marvelous and such a great turnout, show of interest and all that the symphony is about, and fun, too!”

The Long Bay Symphony, along with 175 attendees, celebrated its 20th anniversary with a fashion show and luncheon at the Dunes Golf & Beach Club on Nov. 3.

The group hoped to raise about $5,000; funds are directed to the Youth Orchestra program for instruments and education, as well as to the full orchestra, said event co-chair Joanne Milnor of Murrells Inlet.

'The Symphony Guild is the support group for the Long Bay Symphony, consisting of men and women of diverse backgrounds from all over the country,' she said. 'Most of them have relocated here and came from a city that probably had a symphony orchestra and are aware that it takes money to keep a symphony going. The ticket sales on a concert cover only about half of the cost of presenting a program, so the guild helps by raising [supplemental] funds for the concerts and orchestra programs.' Read more

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We've always heard "you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone," but a few weeks ago that saying took on a new meaning for me. via The Greenville News

“We chose churches (to perform in) because there are no performance halls on Delmarva”

Sunday is already a busy day for Mariner's Bethel United Methodist Church, but on Dec. via The Daily Times

The Springfield Symphony has received $25,000 in grants from the Community Foundation of the Ozarks, Kraft, Burlington Northern, and 3M, to fund ongoing education programs. via News-Leader.com - Top Stories

Maestra Ioannides, also the Music Director of the El Paso Symphony, took the SPO's helm in 2004, and the challenge to take the orchestra to new and higher levels. via The Greenville News

“You don't want a violin that has too much 'brightness,' or what you might call stridence or tinniness. And you don't want it too mellow either. You don't want it too much either way.”

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Nov. 26 An Indiana musician who had his $100,000 violin stolen got his rare instrument back Monday. via Earth Times

“For just about every recording artist, they couldn't have made it without the musicians sitting behind us”

They helped make some of the best-loved songs in popular music with the likes of Stevie Wonder, Patsy Cline and Elvis Presley, but they were content to let the stars take the spotlight. via The Ledger

“Such an action went far outside my character; and it was not aimed at people, but plants”

Bill Nye aka "The Science Guy" is seeking a restraining order against his ex-fiancee Blair Tindall , a writer and former symphony oboist known in Boston music circles for her fling with married Boston Pops ... via Boston Herald

The youngsters of the multiarts collaborative Butterfly Connection have created original shows on a number of topics, from slave-owner letters to Bob Marley. via Star-telegram.com

“The concert was brilliant. It still hasn't sunk it yet. There were so many other good musicians, we weren't sure she was going to win. We're very happy.”

YOUNG Yehudi Menuhins and Myleene Klasses have taken part in a competition to find Worcestershire's best classical musician. via Droitwich Spa Advertiser

“I feel like this weight's been lifted off. It's wonderful. We're very lucky.”

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. - A stolen 115-year-old violin valued at $100,000 has been recovered, its owner said. via South Bend Tribune

“These performances have been a longstanding tradition and our gift to the community”

Graphic: Information about "Messiah" Furman University performances of Handel's "Messiah" began in 1924 when the Glee Club of the Greenville Woman's College, which later merged with Furman, joined First Baptist ... via The Greenville News

The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association recently announced that it has received a $1 million grant for multimedia projects from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. via LA Downtown

Ann Riddle, a graduate of De Pere High School, was among traveling singers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music to perform with the UW Choral Union recently in Freiberg, Germany, a Madison ... via Green Bay Press-Gazette

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra has made a deal to sell 30 stringed instruments, including Stradivarius and Guarneri violins. via Daily India

Guitarist Cem Duruoz will give premiere performances of Concerto Anatolia in Turkey in January and the United States in February, 2008. via Modern Guitars Magazine

“This is similar to art theft. If someone stole a very valuable piece of art, they have to sit on this for generations before they can move it”

Michigan City police say they are closing in on the man who tried to pawn the stolen violin, which is more than a century old and priceless to its owner. via WLS-TV Chicago

Saxophonist and international concert artist Joseph Wytko will visit Willamette University next week for two concerts and a master class. via Statesman Journal

“Perhaps it's the exercise involved, the arm movements, the sheer physicality, the applause, the rush of power, which makes every one of them come alive on stage.”

FOR as long as he can remember, composer Gavin Lockley wanted to use music to illustrate the beauty of Australia, the achievements of the people and their cultural diversity. via The Austrailian

Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 11/23/07 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Post Comment NEWARK - The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra is pulling some strings to get out of debt and position itself for future growth. via Asbury Park Press

“In any major discussion, I am there and education is always a present part of the day-to-day strategy of the organization. That doesn't exist in most arts organizations.”

With all the glitz and glam surrounding Nashville's Symphony Ball, it may be helpful to roll up the red carpet to examine just what all the fuss is about. via The Tennessean

“Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits.”

Thanksgiving is the quintessential American holiday. It fuses the secular and the sacred - that special synthesis that forms our national identity. via Statesman Journal

For Nicolas Orbovich, losing his violin was like losing a member of the family.

A concert violinist, Orbovich said he left his instrument, made in 1892 and worth $100,000, in its case and on the backseat of his car Saturday in a parking lot in this northwestern Indiana city. He left the doors unlocked.

He said he returned less than five minutes later and, as he drove off, he realized it was gone.

'I'm devastated. It's like losing an immediate family member,' said Orbovich, a performer with the South Bend Symphony Orchestra. 'If I leave for any amount of time, I always take it with me. It's just something I never figured would happen.' Read more

“You have to be really careful. You want to empower them.”

Miri Ben-Ari, called the hip-hop violinist, has transformed the genre to include the heartbreaking sound of the violin. via The Hudson Reporter

Video: 2-Minute Weekend for Nov. 23-25 An infant secretly given away by Lyla's father has grown into an unusually gifted child who hears music all around him and can turn the rustling of wind through a wheat ... via Link

Alexander Platt, who served as music director of the Racine Symphony Orchestra from 1993 to 2005, has been named principal conductor and Music Adviser of the Boca Raton Symphonia through the 2008-2009 season. via The Journal Times

“We're excited to be able to repeat the Sioux Falls concert in multiple communities”

A Brass Ensemble from the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra will perform a holiday concert in Vermillion on Saturday, Dec. via Plain Talk

AUGUST RUSH area theaters, starts Wednesday Known for his galvanizing park-bench scene in Finding Neverland , in which he redeems a programmatically mawkish denouement with a survivor's practical pugnacity, ... via City Pages

“I have the highest regard for Cecylia's artistry, and I am confident that her future path in this new arena will meet with tremendous success. I wish her well and thank her for her many years of service to the ASO.”

Cecylia Arzewski, the most visible and highest-paid member of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, has announced she will resign from the ASO after 17 years. via Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A BEAUTIFULLY chosen programme, some outstanding orchestral playing diffused through with considerable sensitivity, and a fine soloist combined to make this perhaps the best of the Chandos's concerts I have ... via This is Malvern

On Monday night, for the first time in many years, the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra gave one of its main concerts under the baton of someone other than its music director, David Currie. via Ottawa Citizen

Overland Park, KS - infoZine - Enjoy seasonal and Broadway show music at the Overland Park Civic Band's annual Holiday Concert Thursday, Nov. via Kansas City InfoZine

“I believe in music the way that some people believe in fairy tales.”

There are precious movies and then there are movies about 11-year-old orphans following "the music." In this respect, "August Rush" is on another level. via Kpic.com

A wonderful opportunity awaits Vermillion-area residents who attend the free concert of the USD Symphony Orchestra this Saturday, Nov. via Plain Talk Online

Seeger Chapel at Milligan College will be filled with the sounds of Tchaikovsky and Duke Ellington on Saturday, Dec. via News Channel 11

Outside, the Carolina autumn blazed scarlet, gold and orange, and an equally delightful riot of color -- this one musical -- entertained the audience as the Greenville Symphony Chamber Orchestra presented its ... via GreenvilleOnline.com

How goes the musical partnership between the Seattle Symphony and its conductor? Two ambitious programs focusing on Brahms and Shostakovich produce critical reactions of alarm, exasperation, and deep ... via Crosscut.com

“The month-long festival provided a communication platform for cultural dialogue among different countries and prominently displayed both classic and modern Chinese arts”

The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the indisputable authority playing the music by Slav maestros like Antonin Dvorak, made its Shanghai debut on Sunday night, closing the 9th China Shanghai International Arts ... via People's Daily

By SCOTT CANTRELL / The Dallas Morning News scantrell@dallasnews.com You're got to love the Dallas Wind Symphony. via Quick

“Do you think that I would stand there with my violin in my hand and listen while the oboe plays the only melody in the entire piece?”

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra returns to the Count Basie Theatre on Saturday and will feature soloist Brittany Sklar, who will perform Johannes Brahms' Violin Concerto and works by Haydn, Ravel and Gounod. via Courier News Online

The central Iowa holiday season is filled with more events than dishes on the Martha Stewart's Thanksgiving table or presents under Bill Gates' Christmas tree. via Des Moines Register

Soothing sounds of strings at Mansfield University November 16, 2007 Post Comment Star-Gazette Violinist Greg Fulkerson, accompanied by pianist Gary Boerckel, will perform 8 p.m. today in Steadman Theatre at ... via Star-Gazette.COM

“Don't go in there thinking you're going to do poorly. Go in there and say to yourself, I can make it, I can do it.”

Failing at my dreams, letting people down. The upcoming election, the genocide in Darfur, whether the Steelers make it to the playoffs, global warming. via The Daily Times

Those three-for-$10 'I [Heart] Chicago' shirts from Walgreens don't exactly capture the essence of our city. via Chicago Tribune

A rarely heard piece by a young Benjamin Britten made the perfect introduction to a major work by Shostakovich at the Seattle Symphony's Benaroya Hall concert Thursday night. via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“It took a lot of effort to not only get over 150 people on stage, but to find housing and funding for all the musicians coming into town.”

The groundbreaking musical performance that takes place Saturday, Nov. 17, at 7:30 p.m., at the Michael D. Palm Theatre is the most ambitious and elaborate performance in the history of the Palm Theatre and ... via The Telluride Watch

“There was a danger that it might end up looking like 50 people writing e-mails together, but we think we've avoided that.”

York: Technology's relentless advance has finally invaded the timeless world of the cello, bassoon and other orchestral instruments, with the debut of the largest digital orchestra in the world. via The Hindu

“The thrill is when you see that one kid just standing there like that”

Imagine the holiday creativity of Clark Griswold without the bumbling madness, and you're pretty close to tapping into the mentality of Carson Williams and John Carter. via Daily Herald

WILLIAM Boughton, founder and principal conductor of the English Symphony Orchestra, has been appointed as principal conductor of the prestigious Newhaven Symphony Orchestra in the USA. via Malvern Gazette

“Each time the melody is played, it's embellished a little more, and the sound builds”

Midland Community Orchestra conductor, Tim Frank of Midland shares a laugh with members during rehearsals for the fall concert at Midland High School Monday. via Midland Daily News

“He [Eastwood] phoned me up to share his... well his shock actually, that Russian students hadn't heard of [British 20th Century composer Ralph] Vaughan Williams”

Rudi Eastwood conducting the opening concert at his new British Music Festival in October. via The St. Petersburg Times

The last recorded song by the late pop icon has been selected as Macedonia's official sports fan anthem. via Balkan Times

“Keeping the arts alive in Manalapan is important”

The township's symphony isn't planning to miss a beat after losing its conductor and board of directors earlier this year. via Asbury Park Press Online

“Piano Concerto No. 24 (K. 491)”

The Binghamton Philharmonic, conducted by Jose-Luis Novo, continues its 2007-08 season Saturday with "Getting Personal: Revueltas, Mozart and Schumann," featuring pianist Jose Feghali. via Press & Sun-Bulletin

“I write my introduction to the person in the car going to the studio”

Jazz great Marian McPartland needs a helping hand to walk on stage, but something magical happens when she sits at the keyboard to improvise with music students one-quarter her age. via Myrtle Beach Online

Enter now for your chance to win movie prizes in the our Entertainment section's contest in conjunction with the Warner Bros. via WFTV.com - WRDQ

As Simon Rattle found out, conductors can't control everything. The music director of the Berlin Philharmonic stepped off the podium, turned around and spoke to the audience at Carnegie Hall after the first ... via York News-Times

An infant secretly given away by Lyla's father has grown into an unusually gifted child who hears music all around him and can turn the rustling of wind through a wheat field into a beautiful symphony with ... via GreenvilleOnline.com

Hear Greensboro Symphony Orchestra music director Dmitry Sitkovetsky discuss this week's concerts by listening to a podcast on the symphony's Web site. via GoTriad

“One of the books he had on his list was so rare that the Smithsonian Institution asked for it so they would have a copy.”

Or, clap, as the case may be. Woman's Day magazine is paging former West Texan and Midland-Odessa Symphony and Chorale member Lynn Gaubatz and her brainchild, Adopt a Library. via MyWestTexas.com

“It's going be a different-looking bowling alley”

CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Mainline Bowl owner Phil Wood sits Monday in the rubble of his business five months into reconstruction after the March tornado destroyed the building. via Clovis News Journal

“We really don't feel this orchestra should be cut down into something that is a ghost of itself”

By Ryan Duffy First Coast News JACKSONVILLE, FL -- The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra has canceled five performances of the Music Man scheduled for this weekend. via WJXX

“The act of pressing us to make the situation [involving North Korea's possession of nuclear arms] transparent is nothing but an old ploy in which the strong are attempting to put pressure on the weak.”

A group of 16 North Koreans, comprising diplomats of the North Korean Mission to the United Nations and their families, went on a sightseeing trip to Washington in September. via Daily Yomiuri

The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestras 52 full time musicians face suspensions to their pensions, the elimination of paid leave and 10-percent decrease in pay Talk Back: Post a comment on this article By First ... via WJXX

“I love to paint. I change the colors probably every three to four years”

The Jim and Doreen Brisch home at 3414 Barkwood Lane will be one of four Manitowoc residences on the 19th Annual Symphony Holiday Tour of Homes from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. via Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter

Camerata Musica will present "What's a Little Mozart Among Friends?" with Susan Miller and the Amici String Quartet at 3 p.m. today in the Loucks Lecture Hall of the Salem Public Library. via Statesman Journal

“It's going to be a big spring”

When the ever-growing Vigneri bunch gathers at the home of Joe and Betsy, they need lots of space. via Casper Star-Tribune

The Green Bay Symphony Orchestra is having a statewide photo contest with the theme of moonlight as part of its composer-in-residence project. via Green Bay Press-Gazette

All praise to the Des Moines Symphony for having the courage and the hipness to engage the cutting-edge young musician Daniel Bernard Roumain for this weekend's concerts. via Http

When 18 musical conductors gather in a magnetic resonance imaging machine, it's not to lead an orchestra in a symphony. via WAVY-TV Portsmouth

The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra has made a tradition of traveling annually to Ripon. via Fond du Lac Reporter

James DePreist, former Oregon Symphony conductor and music director, has been asked to become the new artistic director of the Cascade Festival of Music. via The Oregonian