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Richard Wagner is the classical composer most associated with the Nazis, but it was Johann Sebastian Bach whom the party dubbed "the most German of Germans" and whose music was played at rallies to stir up nationalist zeal.

JACKSON'S MEMORIAL RECEPTION WAS 'LIKE AN ART GALLERY LAUNCH' 2009-07-09 03:03:10 - The star-studded reception after MICHAEL JACKSON's memorial service in Los Angeles on Tuesday was the perfect end to a highly emotional and respectful day, according to the King of Pop's longtime friend and former producer SAMM BROWN.

SATURDAY: Who said cartoons couldn't be classy? Grab your finest tux and a carrot for " Bugs Bunny on Broadway " with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra this Saturday night at the Merriweather Post Pavilion.

Michael Jackson performing in a concert in Budapest, Hungary during one of his global tours.

Pop classical music can sound like a day at your local mall or department store.

The Portland Cello Project is a rotating cast of 8-16 classically trained cellists known for mixing Salt 'n' Pepa with Bach and providing the lush backdrop for some of indie rock's most compelling voices.

The Brasil Guitar Duo puts on an 8 p.m. concert Friday at Cinema Arts Centre's Sky Room in Huntington.

What do Abraham Lincoln and Luke Skywalker have in common? Theme music, as it turns out.

THE Philharmonic's billing her as "Brooklyn's own Simone Dinnerstein." They're not kidding.

Summer is the season when classical musicians traditionally rusticate and play concerts in resort communities in northern New Hampshire and western Maine, and this year six classical music festivals and concert series in the two-state region beckon listeners from the Mount Washington Valley.

My father discovered classical music accidentally, while turning on the polka station on the family radio earlier than usual one Sunday morning.

It's not surprising to see a Cuban timba band playing Bach. Timba is aggressive and full of ideas; its players shoulder Afro-Cuban grooves but add spaghetti junctions of ornament on top, including Bach quotations.

Jazz performance and concert production is hardly thriving in Washington, D.C. Clubs have either closely entirely or altered programming significantly so as to focus on music deemed to have wider commercial appeal.

Musicians from North America, Europe and Africa who perform classical, jazz, swing and world music will be featured in two series during the 2009-10 CityMusic season.

Lux Aeterna was one of many songs about light sung in the outdoors by the 20-member A Cappella Strait choir at Willow Farm June 21 on the longest day of the year.

Throughout June, a group of European classical musicians, accompanied by Palestinians and Israelis, has roused and challenged audiences across Jerusalem in an eclectic festival aimed at bridging the city's divides.

Pauline Sullivan will perform classical and modern vocal music. Pauline Sullivan June 25, 2009 Sacred River of Song, a concert, will be presented at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 28, at the First United Methodist Church, 175 N. Main St., Ashland.

Most jazz musicians have had at least some experience playing classical music, but it's unusual for them to record it.

On the roofless patio of a tiny house in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Cali, Colombia, a small miracle takes place every afternoon between 2 p.m. and 5:40 p.m. More than 100 children, ages 6-17, come to study music at a small conservatory named Proyecto Desepaz after the housing project of tiny brick homes.

The introduction was by way of a Deutsche Grammophon CD entitled, " Gulda Plays Bach ", and for us it was a startling find as Gulda proved to be that rarest of 20th-century pianists: a pianist who uses the piano to perform Bach exactly as that instrument ought to be used, which is to say absent all trace of anachronistic and inappropriate largely ...