Mozart News

M. Kate West Chester Editor 11/18/2009 The award-winning Chester Community Chorus will present three concerts in the Lake Almanor Basin the first weekend in December.

Boston is following a trend in radio that's taking place in other cities across the nation: Its only 24-hour classical music station now depends on listeners - not advertisers - to keep it afloat.

Like a jazz soloist or an improv comedian, Holly Carr never knows what she's going to make until she's caught up in creation.

There was a real treat in store for the Dome faithful when top clarinettist Emma Johnson was the star soloist for a wonderful concert of contrasts.

CEO Corner 8:30 p.m. NECN. Ottaway Newspaper Group Executive Chairman and Herald Media owner Pat Purcell talks about changes in the news media industry.

Mary Martin as Susanna and Jonathan Christopher as Figaro in the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance University Opera Theatre's production of "The Marriage of Figaro." photo by Peter Smith Photography The University of Michigan's production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" got off to a good start Thursday ...

Set in Egypt in a Mythical Time The principles of good and evil are the centerpiece of this Mozart masterpiece, which premiered only months before his death in December 1791.

A free chamber music concert featuring three groups from the Amphion Club will perform at 2 p.m. Sunday at First United Methodist Church, 210 Martina St.

AMICI and OrchestraWest will perform two of Mozart's best-loved choral works, the Vespers K339 and the towering Mass in C Minor tomorrow, Remembrance Sunday, November 8. Taunton's own professional symphony orchestra, OrchestraWest, will provide support, and the concert will be held at King's College Chapel from 7.30pm. Tickets are A 15/A 10 ...

Chat at noon with the Job Doc. ON CHRONICLE Main Streets, Back Roads/Rockland, Maine 7:30 p.m. WCVB-TV Rockland is forging a new identity that combines its blue collar past with a sophisticated present.

I was glad to be able to make it to standout piano scholarship student Chee Hang See's junior recital at the College's Simons Center Recital Hall last Tuesday evening.

Classical music and reggae music don't necessarily seem like they would belong to the same cultural family, but it helps when the musicians performing the mix are brothers.

Music lovers who missed Charleston Symphony Orchestra's Backstage Pass Series concert Thursday, missed something special.

Three years ago, the classical music world went bananas celebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth.

SITTING in a 1st century Roman amphitheatre watching a 16th century opera performed in 20th century costume was a confusing experience.

Martin Majkut, one of five conductors competing for the artistic helm of the Rogue Valley Symphony Orchestra, will conduct the orchestra's second concert series of the season beginning Friday, Nov.

''A Musical Triptych,'' this Sunday's entry in an ongoing series of benefit recitals for the Pennsylvania Sinfonia, brings together a disparate trio of musicians, all of whom are connected in one way or another.

For almost 46 years the Pro-Mozart Society of Atlanta has been hosting classical concerts free of charge as a showcase for their scholarship program for promising young musicians to study at the Mozarteum in Austria.

Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero can't quite explain her improvisational talents, though she does offer this: "I hear a ' I dona TMt think," she says.

Deep within the historic Vienna State Opera, Franz Welser-M st is poring over scores used and notated by Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss, two of its more distinguished former directors.