Berg News

Each year seems to bring further sales statistics that portend the death of classical recorded music, at least to some critical Cassandras.

You read that right. Ruth Dobson, an organizer of the Astoria Music Festival, confirmed today that the festival will perform Alban Berg's opera "Wozzeck" next summer.

There's something up lately at Kelly's Koffee other than coffee and food: Owner Kelly LaRock has lately embraced the tradition of cafA© culture and opened her doors to musicians.

The final concert in violinist Leonidas Kavakos's short Southbank residency was an evening of chamber music that drew a neat line under the centre's recent Schnittke festival.

In 1927 the Mariinsky Theatre in Leningrad became only the third opera house to stage Alban Berg's "Wozzeck," after the opera's 1925 premiere in Berlin and a production in Prague.

ELISABETH Soderstrom, the Swedish soprano greatly admired for her sensitive operatic roles and for her refined, delicately shaded voice in a career spanning more than 50 years, has died of complications from a stroke in Stockholm.

Thanksgiving has yet to arrive and there's not even snow on the ground, but that hasn't stopped a local service club from from ringing in the holidays with an annual Christmas tradition.

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia in a recording that makes up part of - ReRite' I brandish a stick and wallop a bass-drum 11 times in quick succession.

Many artists have been drawn to "Woyzeck," a "proletarian tragedy" left unfinished by German dramatist Georg Buechner when he died in 1837, not published until 1879 and not produced until 1913.

Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck is based on scenes from an unfinished play, Woyzeck , by Georg Bchner.

Paws Farm Nature Center is getting into the Halloween spirit this month with a series of fall programs for kids.

GLASGOW ROYAL CONCERT HALL * * * RAVEL'S Pavane pour une infant dA©funte demands of an orchestra the faA ade of simplicity.

The premier of Island musician Linda M. Berg's choral piece "Mass of Creation" was performed Saturday evening at The First Congregational Church in West Tisbury to a full house that was moved to a long standing ovation.

FEARS of a wafer-thin audience for last night's homecoming concert by Donald Runnicles, in his new capacity as chief conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, disappeared at the 11th hour as hundreds formed a last-minute queue for tickets tha t snaked its way outside the Usher Hall, delaying the start of the concert by ten minutes.

It began this summer as representatives from the Meridian Symphony showed interest in observing a worthy cause in conjunction with one of its season concerts.

THEATRE: Woyzeck. Sadari Movement Laboratory. Director: Do Wan Im. OzAsia Festival.

The Jim Cullum Jazz Band will be joined by a variety of guests to tape three shows of traditional jazz performances.

THEATRE: The musical version of Helen Forrester's autobiography Twopence to Cross the Mersey, above, returns to the Empire with a revised script.

The 26th year of one of Miami's most exciting traditions - Festival Miami - is back to kick off the fall season with great and inspiring music.

Like most children who begin playing the piano, it is at a young age and at the urging of one's mother.