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Every year, after undertaking the onerous task of enjoying some of the Lehigh Valley's rich classical music offerings and reporting on them, we select 10 or so which we recall with particular fondness.

Three CDs, three times nominated for Grammys. That's the current record for Conspirare, Austin's acclaimed professional choir, with the news that its disc A Company of Voices: Conspirare in Concert got a nod in the Best Classical Crossover Album category in the 52nd set of recording industry awards.

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Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to good things in Blogville and Beyond.

Tuesday, 24 November 2009, 1:51 pm Press Release: Vector Wellington Orchestra In 2010 the Vector Wellington Orchestra will celebrate 300 years of wonderful music by presenting great works connected with the years 1710, 1810, 1910 and 2010.

Published: Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 7:37 p.m. "'Tis the Season" for bells and jolly music.

Although 24, Carey Mulligan is a natural playing an impressionable teen in 'An Education.' November 21, 2009 "An Education" opens in 1961 with Jenny , a 16-year-old British schoolgirl, standing in the pouring rain, her cello case by her side.

The approaching Christmas season wouldn't be the same without the strains of choral music to accompany it.

Samuel Barber's 1939 Violin Concerto, perhaps the greatest example of the genre written by an American composer, will be the centerpiece in the second classical concert of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra's 66th season on Saturday in Symphony Hall.

St George's, Bristol It's a bold man who commits to writing a score for Alla Nazimova's 1923 silent film SalomA©, but composer Charlie Barber never shies away from a challenge.

One of the films to wow this year's London Film Festival has been An Education, an adaptation of journalist Lynn Barber's memoir that details her adolescent relationship with a shady older man.

Carey Mulligan charms as a teen dazzled by an older man in a bittersweet romance based on Lynn Barber's 1960s memoirs, says Philip French Sunday, 01 November 2009 In the 1980s, David Puttnam produced a series of films for TV and cinema under the title First Love, the aim being to bring in new movie-makers and writers to work on personal themes in ...

D Clef Records In ancient Roman mythology, Janus, the god of gates, doorways, beginnings and endings, was often depicted with two heads facing in opposite directions-one looking to the past, the other to the future-making him an appropriate signifier for music that embraces a range of historical traditions.

Lessons in love...Carey Mulligan and Peter Sarsgaard enjoy the sights and sounds of 1960s Paris in the thoroughly English romantic drama 'An Education'. A fair starting point for 'An Education' would be those often quoted lines of poet Philip Larkin: "Sexual intercourse began in nineteen sixty-three, Between the end of the Chatterley ban and the ...

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But that's just part of the fun in OperaDelaware's production of "The Barber of Seville" at The Grand Opera House on November 1, 6 and 7. The story is the prequel to "The Marriage of Figaro" - same characters, only 10 years earlier.

Violinist Rachel Barton Pine plays concertos with orchestras around the world, performs on baroque violin with an early music ensemble and has created more than a dozen recording projects ranging from tributes to underappreciated violinists such as Maud Powell and black composers of the 18th and 19th centuries to Scottish folk music and the world ...

When Lone Scherfig's wise, colorful coming-of-age tale An Education was making the festival rounds, all points on the buzz compass were aiming directly at its star, Carey Mulligan, and rightly so.

Susan Beausang, President of 4women.com and fashion head scarf designer, and Kelly Augustyniak, owner of Kelietza, have partnered up to create a very special event a 'A Scarf It Up for Womena TMs Cancers.

Samuel Barber had one of the most unusual career trajectories of any American composer.