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Guest conductor Phil Snedecor and the River City Brass Band give exciting freshness to some "American Classics" in the current series of concerts.

BRIDGEWATER - The Bridgewater College Symphonic Band will present a fall concert at 3 p.m. Nov.

The UNC School of the Arts Wind Ensemble, conducted by Michael Dodds, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Crawford Hall on campus.

The Eastern Michigan University Symphony Orchestra will bewitch audiences with the 12th installment of its annual Halloween Concert tomorrow at 7 p.m. in Pease Auditorium.

For frenziedly creative polymaths, the French may have Jean Cocteau, but the Jews have Belarus-born Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport, who wrote poems, fiction, ethnography and plays under the pen name S. An-sky . Of these, indubitably the most famous is An-sky's still-popular 1914 Russian play "The Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds," the story of a young bride ...

Vivian Perlis, with Aaron Copland, collaborated with the composer on his memoir.

Master Classic Series #2- Presented by the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra Horacio Gutierrez will be performing the Serge Prokofiev's- Concerto No.

The Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra opened its 43rd season with a trio of diverse compositions played much to the delight of the audience that filled Appleton's Fox Cities Performing Art Center on Saturday night.

Since an assassin's bullet cut short the life of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865, he's become an iconic figure in American history, as tall and imposing as the statue at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Today, Lincoln is hailed as "Honest Abe," the Great Emancipator who ended slavery and led the nation through the darkest hours of the ...

"I'm in great health!" says violinist Joan Kwuon. So, probably, are other women because of her gift of her musical talents.

There is history made and history observed. Next week, the Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra and the Allentown Band will celebrate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln 's birth with a concert historic in its own right.

A typical concert by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra has one guest performer. Next weekend's will have 17.

A Wisconsin Public Radio personality known for his classical music commentary is hosting the gala dinner that precedes the first concert of the Fox Valley Symphony's 2009-10 season.

With the crack of a whip and a blast of fresh air, a new era has begun for the nation's oldest orchestra.

Aaron Copland's Symphony No. 3 has become a cornerstone of the repertory and deserves its place on the short list for the title of The Great American Symphony.

Quadra Cultural Committee kicks off its 23rd season at the Quadra Island Community Centre on Saturday, Sept.

There's a new sheriff in town, but he's packing a skinny little baton instead of a six-shooter. With the apparent demise of the Savannah Orchestra, and its chamber-music offshoot the Savannah Sinfonietta, the big man at the podium is Savannah Philharmonic conductor Peter Shannon.

Brad Ellsworth, D-Ind., will shuck party labels and political allegiances Sunday to offer tribute to a Republican.

Many of you have been on vacation for the last week or two. Being sensible sorts, you probably tuned out New York politics.

Peninsula Music Festival music director Victor Yampolsky enters his 24th season with the orchestra, and he feels it will be one of its best.