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The Los Angeles Philharmonic's Gustavo Dudamel has said he sees the conductor as more of a collaborator than a leader.

I had the chance over the weekend to see two very memorable concerts on smaller stages in the Chicago 'burbs, both of which I reviewed for Chicago Classical Review .

DOHA: Five young talented members of the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra took the audience in a musical journey through the works of famous composers in different periods during a brass band concert at the Waqif Art Centre last night.

With music director Carl St.Clair conducting "La Boheme" at his other home, the Komische Oper Berlin, it fell to a guest conductor to lead the Pacific Symphony in its third classical program of the season, heard Thursday night at Segerstrom Concert Hall.

Posted November 11, 2009 at 7:29 p.m. "Cluster Plucking," spsonsored by the Acoustic Music Society of Southwest Florida, presents artists such as Andy Wahlberg, who plays a unique harp-guitar, as well as 14 other acoustic musicians, at the Norris Center in Naples Nov.

Soprano Tracy Dahl sang splendidly at Vancouver Opera's anniversary gala. Vancouver Opera Golden anniversary Concert Leonard Bernstein's overture to Candide opened Vancouver Opera's 50th-anniversary gala with a flash of showmanship.

Bella Sorella Nova and Susanna Jimenez, sopranos, with piano and violin accompaniment is an award-winning vocal ensemble that combines classical and contemporary styles in melodic duets like nothing you've ever heard.

For anyone wondering what on earth the Overture to Leonard Bernstein's Candide was doing at the start of this bizarre, rag-bag of an evening might I suggest that the inference may have been that "in the best of all possible worlds" Angela Gheorghiu would have been singing more than two arias in the official programme with two more tired old ...

Listen to the famed icon's daughter Jamie Bernstein speak about her father, Leonard Bernstein, with Independent Classical correspondent Edward Seckerson in this podcast specially commissioned for Southbank Centre's The Bernstein Project.

Laurie Klatscher, left, is the Old Lady and Nicole Kaplan is Cunegonde in Quantum Theatre's "Candide." Ambition is something "Candide's" Dr.

Mahler, The Complete Symphonies, L. Bernstein Sony Classical 88697 45369 2 When it comes to Gustav Mahler, I always defer to Jens Laurson, who is running an excellent and definitive overview of recordings of the Mahler symphonies for WETA's Mahler Month at the moment.

By Alice T. Carter , TRIBUNE-REVIEW THEATER CRITIC Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Last updated: 6:42 pm For Karla Boos and Andres Cladera, the vacant repair shop of a former auto dealership is the best of all possible worlds in which to stage a musical.

Nicole Kaplan, left, and John Wascavage in Quantum Theatre's "Candide." Quantum Theatre stages classics and plays that are largely unknown, often American premieres, in places no one thought to stage them before.

The stage for Quantum Theatre's production of Leonard Bernstein's Candide is oval, just like a racetrack.

The Yorba Linda Symphony Orchestra has expanded beyond it original boundaries and has grown into a new name, The Southern California Philharmonic.

Move over, Folklife. Make room, Bumbershoot. Seattle, which never met a festival it couldn't embrace , will get to enjoy "Seattle Celebrates Bernstein" from April through June of next year.

Pacific Northwest Ballet dancers, including soloist Seth Orza, center, as Riff, play it "Cool" in Jerome Robbins' "West Side Story Suite." DANCE PREVIEW 'Director's Choice' Performed by the Pacific Northwest Ballet, Thursday-Nov. 15, McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St., Seattle; $25-$160; . Can't get enough of "West Side Story"? Neither could its composer, ...

Leonard Bernstein was larger than life - conductor , Broadway composer and TV pioneer whose long-running Young People's Concerts helped make him one of the 20th century's most eminent, visible and irresistible musical talents and communicators.

TOKYO - 'Lights, camera, action.' The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is familiar with those words - but not in Japanese.

On Friday, the Southwest Symphony Orchestra kicked off its 2009-10 season, titled 'The Wonderful World of Music,' with its 'Treasures From the New World' production.