Brahms News

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Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic won a Grammy Award on Sunday for their recording of Brahms' Fourth Symphony.

It was an evening at the movies last night at Burlington's Memorial Auditorium when the Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra presented its 2012 Young Artists in concert.

Partnering with numerous local colleagues, the Cleveland Orchestra's principal horn here speaks his peace about the major works of chamber music for his instrument.

As part of The Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ Series Dressed in black suits coupled with white athletic shoes, the Canadian Brass, which performs works in the classical repertoire, with daring leaps into jazz and popular standards, will be joined by renowned organist Jeffrey Brillhart on March 10, 2012 at 3 p.m. in Verizon Hall.

THE speed limit on the A40 Oxford Road through Denham is to be increased from 30mph to 40mph, with a puffin crossing also to be installed.

Johnson, a senior who plans on graduating with a degree in music education, said she had never heard of the Brahms composition before rehearsing it during the program.

The playing of the British violinist Daniel Hope, who is performing at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall this Sunday, is not just distinguished by its tonal beauty, but by its compelling rhetorical quality - the 38-year-old's phrasing seems often to express an unwritten text.

For its mid-winter concert of the 2011-2012 Lexus Classic Series, the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra under Music Director Jose-Luis Novo is presenting an interesting mix of music by French, Argentinean and German composers.

As the Grand Philharmonic Choir performed the sometimes ear shattering Credo Saturday night at Centre in the Square, there was, at least this from this reviewer, an uncertainty of what to think.

From a stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf's stories to Afghan and Indian music residencies; a modern dance and sculpture collaboration to a celebration of the Rose Art Museum, the spring arts season features a variety of offerings to entertain and challenge.

As Thomas Hampson neared the end of his part in Brahms' glorious "Ein Deutsches Requiem" he intoned, "Behold, I show you a mystery." It was hard for me to not take these words at face value even in the midst of a work of profound spirituality and one set to biblical verse.

Recorded live at the Semperoper in Dresden in June last year, this was Maurizio Pollini 's first appearance with the city's Staatskapelle for quarter of a century.

Back for another concert at the Rose Lehrman Arts Center is Concertante, a chamber music ensemble that strives to combine traditional style and skill with an adventurous attitude of exploration and experimentation in both classical and contemporary music.

James Sclater, clarinetist and Angie Willoughby, pianist, will present a program of music for clarinet and piano at St.

Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of The Arts continues its 2011-12 Bach and the Baroque series with Simone Dinnerstein: Bach and the Romantics.

Ready to experience ballet--and the August Wilson Center --like never before? Two Pittsburgh cultural powerhouses are teaming up to launch a collaborative new approach to dance programming which promises to provide audiences with a rare intimate look at ballet, and breathe new life into the Downtown-based African-American Cultural Center.

With his laughing eyes and handlebar mustache and miniature Vandyke beard, Roby Lakatos looks like the subject of a Frans Hals portrait.

Rather than the usual switch this time of year from the grand Benedum Center to the more intimate Byham Theater for a few performances, dancers will mount "Uncommon" for seven days at the August Wilson Center for African American Culture, Downtown.

While the Republicans were debating in Tampa, the Cleveland Orchestra was providing world class entertainment at the Van Weze in Sarasota, Monday night.