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"I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous." - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky The tent is up! The program sellers, ticket ...

AFTER assembling one of the largest orchestras ever seen in the Peterborough, a group is preparing to once again wow audiences with a stunning classical display.

Jackson Hole, Wyo.- On Thursday, July 9, "Around the World in ... 88 Keys" will transport audiences on an aural excursion, meandering through Eastern Europe and then trekking across the globe.

A Conversation with Jean Shin and Nathalie Angls on The Topic of Her Exhibition "And we move" Wednesday, July 16, 2008 7pm Free admission, Open to the public at Location One 26 Greene Street Jean Shin's current ...

THE Esplanade Concert Hall was transformed into a Czech wonderland at the opening gala of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra's 2008-2009 season, crowned with the formidable presence of American-Jewish pianist ...

Smetana: Ma Vlast - Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 Guest soloist Edward Auer, Professor of Piano at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, joins Barbara Schubert and the University of Chicago Symphony ...

It's free; it's family-oriented; it's educational - and it's fun. It's a musical river ride with the Mill Valley Philharmonic.

THE single most important factor of this week's programme announcement by Scottish Opera was its reaffirmation that the company will go into a new season with a musical director at the helm.

NEW REGIME: Scottish Opera's musical director Francesco Corti, left, and general director Alex Reedijk.

I caught up with the festival's director Roman B>lor to ask what is on the menu of Prague Spring's 63rd year: "We are inviting, as is our tradition, all Czech symphony orchestras and of course they are sharing ... via Radio Prague

“Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major.”

CEDAR RAPIDS When Maestro Tim Hankewich joined the Cedar Rapids Symphony last year, many felt that he had taken the orchestra to a new level. via The Gazette

To conclude its 2007-2008 concert series, the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, under Music Director Jose-Luis Novo, has assembled an ambitious collection of music from three centuries. via Hometown Annapolis

There is nothing highbrow about Smetana's opera "The Bartered Bride," a story of down-to-earth life and peasant high jinks, all of it sunny-side up. via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“When I took over as artistic director, one of my goals was to expand out season incrementally”

Last fall, Pasadena-based Celestial Opera went head-to-head with Los Angeles' biggest opera company, offering their version of Beethoven's "Fidelio" just months after Los Angeles Opera opened its season with a ... via Pasadena Star-News

In the tent on the Mendocino Headlands State Park: Conductor, Allan Pollack and The Festival Orchestra: Smetana's Overture to The Bartered Bride, Dvorak's Symphony No. via Ukiah Daily Journal

This year, the Portland Symphony Orchestra gets a jump start on Earth Day at Music for Earth Day, Merrill Auditorium, April 14th and 15th. via Huliq.com

Dvorak's piping birds took a little while to get their song together, although German conductor Eckehard Stier opened out magnificent vistas once the first tutti started. via The New Zealand Herald

For the first time in 18 years, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra will perform in Cape Girardeau. via Southeast Missourian

“The appeal is the opportunity to work with 50 or 60 musicians, to give them your ideas and then hear them bring them to life. After all, I am not the one making the notes, it's the players who must do that.”

Eckehard Stier's debut with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra last year was an evening with an unexpected coda. via The New Zealand Herald

You are not signed in . April 12 @ Orpheum Theatre Last fall, audiences across the Valley eagerly voted for their favorite Classical selections, and now, the results are in! Join Michael Christie as he conducts ... via Downtown Phoenix Journal