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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.

For more than 45 years, these Wild Things have been making peoples' hearts sing.

Program: J.S. Bach's Toccata Adagio and Fugue in C BWV 564 and Contrapuncti No. 2, 14 & 6 from Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1089; Ian Coleman's Pebbles, Rocks, Shells and Bones; Edward Elgar's Allegro maestoso ; Max Reger's Benedictus; Maurice Durufle's Sicilienne ; and Franz Liszt's Prelude and Fugue on BACH.

Superstar violinist Gilles Apap and Caroline Campbell, the Santa Barbara Symphony's concertmaster, joined forces at the Lobero Theatre on Thursday night for a concert of demanding solo and duet selections.

Afternoon Music Presents Acclaimed Violinist November 8th at Unitarian Church in Summit By The Unitarian Church in Summit 10/15/2009 Violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins and pianist Craig Ketter combine to present the first concert of Afternoon Music's 2009-2010 season on Sunday, November 8, at The Unitarian Church in Summit, 4 Waldron Ave.

For more than 45 years, these Wild Things have been making peoples' hearts sing.

Otto Joachim, the German-born composer and former principal viola of the MSO, in his CA te St.

Both Friends of Chamber Music leaders and the audience breathed a sigh of relief Thursday evening when Murray Perahia stepped onto the stage of Gates Concert Hall at the University of Denver.

Verdict: Revisiting Bach, a peerless pianist creates definitive interpretations for the new century.

Hymns from Croatia, Sephardic Jewish melodies from Spain and religious songs from China will be part of the eclectic program at the 13th annual Quebec Festival of Sacred Music.

Montana Skies, a dynamic acoustic duo from Atlanta, will play a concert Sunday night at the Purple Onion Cafe in Saluda.

WBACH will be giving away overnight stays, including dinner, to these wonderful Inns and Bed and Breakfasts during "Breakfast with Bach" with Scott Hooper.

After Channel 4 screened the documentary A Boy Called Alex in January 2008, teenager Alex Stobbs became an overnight sensation.

American jazz legend Dave Brubeck will join his long-time friend Brazilian pianist and conductor Joao Carlos Martins and his orchestra on Friday to play a Bach-inspired repertoire.

Not long ago, Andrew W.K., the bloody-faced headbanger whose hits include "Party Hard" and "Party Til You Puke," turned up on National Public Radio to wax poetic about the universal life force of J.S. Bach.

The UCA Department of Music will host saxophonist Joe Eckert in concert Monday at 7:30 p.m. in Snow Fine Arts Center Recital Hall.A A versatile performer in both classical and jazz idioms, Eckert will perform a program that includes both styles.

Old man Johann Sebastian Bach begat 20 children by two wives. Those that lived to adulthood turned out pretty good.