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Gustav Mahler a " Symphony No.5
WETA will have finished playing through the three complete Mahler cycles this weekend, but on-line Mahler Month will continue strong until December.
Band takes audience on nostalgic trip
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.
10 classical recordings to start your kid with
It's a sentimental notion, perhaps, to think that a newspaper article could get kids interested in classical music.
West County Winds concert Dec. 7
Wind Ensemble sketches American musical portraits West County Winds, a community wind ensemble, will perform its winter concert on Monday, December 7, at 8:00 pm in the Knox Center for the Performing Arts Auditorium at Contra Costa College.
From witty to ecstatic, Vancouver Opera fetes it festive
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.
Angela Gheorghiu/Marius Manea/Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Festival Hall
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 ...
Free podcast: The Bernstein Project at Southbank Centre
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.
Leads drive Quantum's 'Candide' on entertaining journey
Laurie Klatscher, left, is the Old Lady and Nicole Kaplan is Cunegonde in Quantum Theatre's "Candide." Ambition is something "Candide's" Dr.
Review: Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra wows the crowd
The Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra conjured magical moment after magical moment Saturday evening at Memorial Auditorium with a perfectly delivered program of American music.
Why Leonard Bernstein Still Matters. A lot.
If you grew up in the '60s or '70s and loved music, you couldn't get away from Leonard Bernstein.
Quantum stages darkly satirical 'Candide'
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.
Leonard Bernstein festival to serenade us in the spring
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.
National TV exposure is CSO first
TOKYO - 'Lights, camera, action.' The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is familiar with those words - but not in Japanese.
Even with a roof solidly overhead and four walls protecting from the cold night, Emory University Symphony Orchestra took Saturday night's crowd on an astrological tour of Gustav Holst's The Planets .
Review: Choral magic American style
Gil Seeley has led the Oregon Repertory Singers for 34 of its 36 years. TrackMoves> 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false omposition professor at Lewis & Clark College, evoked the poem's images of sun and barn, dreams and magic, beginning in a wordless swirl of overlapping pitches and ending on an open chord.
Brooklyn Theaters: Alive and Well Across the Borough
We have at our disposal here, in this great borough of Brooklyn, some of the finest theater in the city.
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 ...
East meets West at weekend shows
Des Moines Symphony, Japanese drummers update old traditions. Eastern and Western musicians were trading ideas even before Marco Polo trudged down the Silk Road, but two programs this weekend in Des Moines and Ames highlight East-West collaborations are unmistakably modern.
By Alison Beshur Times Features Editor alison.beshur dailytimes.com To mark the first classical concert series in the Symphony of the Hills' 2009-10 season, the group has gone back to the basics - Beethoven, Bach and Brahms.
Heights Players' Performance Of Candide Delights Audience
" There are six very good reasons in October to be optimistic in Brooklyn Heights.
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