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What happens when a bluegrass banjo player makes a documentary film about a legendary 18th century composer? The result with Michael Lawrence is Bach and Friends , due for DVD release early in 2010.

WHAT would Malvern audiences have heard sung 400 years ago? There will be a unique opportunity to find out in Mark Padmorea s forthcoming concert for Malvern Concert Club.

TOO rare a visitor to these shores, this programme demonstrates just why the Mark Morris Dance Group has attracted accolades wherever it has appeared.

Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, review Alina Ibragimova Rating: * * * * * Alina Ibragimova HYPERION CDA67691/2, 2 CDS, 22.50 The young Russian-born violinist Alina Ibragimova has been a name to watch for some time, through her Hyperion recordings of music by Hartmann, Roslavets and Szymanowski, and through her participation in the BBC ...

The first recital of Chichester Chamber Concerts' fifth season was suitably dedicated to its original creator, Michael Nott, who sadly passed away earlier this year.

If you are new to the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, as I am, may I humbly suggest you start with his Magnificat in D Minor, as performed by The Bach Choir of Bethlehem on their new CD.

Chichester Chamber Concerts open their 2009-2010 season with a concert in memory of their founder and chairman Michael Nott who died earlier this year.

A weekly update about upcoming concerts around Madison and notes on the local scene.

CLASSICAL: Vasily Petrenko, above, and the RLPO give the first-ever performance of Symphony: Magnetite by the Birkenhead-born winner of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Composers, Emily Howard.

GUESTS:A PETER BLANCHETTE ;A ALI LEXA WITH DERICK SEBASTIAN; ART JARVINEN, Events LA Guitar Quartet + Phil Proctor - " "Don Quixote" Join the Grammy-winning LAGQ and actor Phil Proctor in their only LA performance of "The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote: Words and Music from the Time of A Cervantes". A It's a special benefit concert sponsored by ...

Felix Mendelssohn gets credit for a fair number of things: He was one of the folks who more or less resurrected the music of Johann Sebastian Bach from the dustbin of history, but he also wrote a goodly number of piano scores and created the incidental music for Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream" - including the famous "Wedding March," ...

There's nothing like getting a raucous scare from music. Unless it's doubled with a good scare in a movie.

Classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein is so chill even after gorgeously playing two lively, emotive solo pieces the morning of Oct.

What: Alabama Symphony. Symphony 7: "Classical Jam." Justin Brown, conductor; Chris Thile, mandolinist.

This month the Bach Choir of Bethlehem celebrates the release of its first recording on the Analekta label, Canada's largest independent classical recording company.

As a child, Heather Patterson played the piano. She's always loved opera and classical music .

Members of Chicago Choral Artists open their 35th season and celebrate the 200th anniversary of composer Felix Mendelssohn's birth with The Two Worlds of Mendelssohn, a concert that observes his genius as an immensely successful composer in both the German and English styles.

A MARATHON will take place on the UC Berkeley campus this weekend, and while it may not be of the strictly athletic variety, it nonetheless will be a test of endurance and excellence that will take some prowess and panache to pull off.

Ohioan Jason Vieaux has earned a devoted following at home and abroad, playing more than 100 engagements over the last two seasons including performances from Brazil to Poland.

Dozens of fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade students at Franklin Elementary School were treated to a private concert with a special guest on Thursday.