Dvorak News

New Bern hosts two groups Sunday that provide cut-above caliber entertainment and they perform just a stone's throw apart on the city waterfront.

News & Observer music critic David Menconi's random musings about all things related to music and culture of the "popular" variety.

As a longtime musician with the Regina Symphony Orchestra, flutist Marie-Noelle Berthelet will be abandoning her traditional perch with the ensemble Saturday night when she performs as a soloist during their latest offering from the Mosaic Masterworks series.

Take one neglected masterpiece, stir in a gifted bunch of young singers, add an attentive conductor and a savvy director.

The funeral mass has taken place in Dublin of the musician and former conductor of the RTE Concert Orchestra, Noel Kelehan.

The 4G Quartet gave a performance that was often fine and fun of Anton Dvorak's "American" String Quartet, and Mom Luang Usni Pramoj's own latest work for the genre.

It will feature renowned works of the standard repertoire, such as Beethoven's Symphony No.

Soprano Karine Polverelli will join the classical quartet, the Salzburg Chamber Soloists, for its performance of Britten's "Les Illuminations" at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb.

On Sunday, after performing Antoni n Dvorak's beautiful "American Quartet" and Franz Schubert's potent "Death and the Maiden," the players turn to "Sweet Child O' Mine," arranged by Evan Kuhlmann, a bassoonist in the Oregon Symphony.

Before he picked up a baton, Minnesota Orchestra music director Osmo Vanska was a clarinetist.

An in-depth examination of AntonA n DvoATMA k's experiences in America is the focus of an intense week of concerts and activities by the North Carolina Symphony, Feb.

Born in the aftermath of Moscow's momentous events of August 1991, Chamber Orchestra Kremlin has earned national and international recognition as one of Russia's leading classical ensembles.

Over 30 Romanian muA siA cians took on the challenge launched last year by the Czech Centre in Bucharest of remixing any of composer Antonin Dvorak's works and their final versions can be listened tonight at the Czech Centre, which will also host the launch of a double CD, the information informed.

An in-depth examination of AntonA n DvoA A k's experiences in America is the focus of an intense week of concerts and activities by the North Carolina Symphony, Feb.

Hong Kong-born and Yale-educated Perry So is thrilled to be back in the country, taking the podium with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra next Friday.

81, dating from 1888, a substantial 40-minute piece that is commonly found on the "short list" of great piano quintets in the classical tradition.

On the very day Worcester learned it has the second happiest workforce in all of America, Music Worcester Inc., showed one reason people might be happy here.

"Come Sunday" is only barely a jazz album, but it is such good music, it is hard to dislike.

Opera superstar Placido Domingo is getting ready to conduct 35 New York City schoolchildren who are studying music five days a week under a program inspired by Venezuela's acclaimed youth orchestra program, El Sistema.