Prokofiev News

IT'S been something of a Weinberg feast in the last week. First, there was the world premiere of the uproarious one-act opera, Lady Magnesia.

The Soviet composer MieczysA aw Weinberg was close to Shostakovich a ' they shared the same Moscow apartment block.

World-class Romanian violinist Irina Muresanu will continue the SUNY Oswego Ke-Nekt Chamber Music Series with "Homage to the Violin Sonata" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec.

Lang Lang , that famed piano superstar , is at the ripe age of 27 now, and over the hill, so to speak, in Wunderkind years.

It's a sentimental notion, perhaps, to think that a newspaper article could get kids interested in classical music.

Would Brahms have "friended" Prokofiev or Bizet? Who knows? All I can say is the three got on swimmingly Saturday evening when the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra put them together in a program of " Brahms and Friends " at the Michigan Theater.

RenA©e Fleming's concert with Charles Dutoit and the Royal Philharmonic formed part of the South Bank's International Voices series, though why it should have was anyone's guess.

Arild Remmereit, guest conductor; with Haochen Zhang of China, one of two Gold Medal winners at the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

John Williams' Harry Potter theme has been voted the most popular classical music for children.

Ashkenazy's Prokofiev Festival. Sydney Symphony. Violin: Boris Belkin. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.

CLASSICAL: Vasily Petrenko, above, and the RLPO give the first-ever performance of Symphony: Magnetite by the Birkenhead-born winner of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Composers, Emily Howard.

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"I think at heart I am really a teacher, as well as a performer," he said. "The teaching never stops from the podium - I think that's the way Bernstein thought, too." Markward, the third candidate for the position of music director of the Montpelier Chamber Orchestra, will conduct the community orchestra in music of Mozart, Beethoven and Prokofiev, ...

If you're an adult and a music lover, chances are you learned something about orchestral music as a kid from two music-appreciation works that are still widely performed.

The Sacramento Ballet's Richard Porter will dance the part of the big, bad Wolf, and Richard Smith is cast as Peter in the company's production of "Peter and the Wolf." If you go: Peter and the Wolf Peter and the Wolf WHAT: Sacramento Ballet presents a family-friendly program of dance and activities WHEN: 3 p.m. Saturday TICKETS: $25 general, $15 ...

Not every band can book a self-financed 45-country worldwide tour with no label to speak of.

22-25 at the Marcus Center, 929 N. Water St., Milwaukee. The Milwaukee Ballet kicks off its 40th season with the classic fairy tale.

Published: Friday, October 9, 2009 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 7:06 p.m. The Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra will perform "Keyboard Brilliance," a concert of great works by Beethoven and Russian masters, at Blue Ridge Community College Saturday night.

The money difficulties of the last year, the reportedly poor ticket sales of last week, and the future questions of musical leadership all seemed distant if not vanished - however momentarily - when the Philadelphia Orchestra played unusually fine performances of mostly standard repertoire with the smashing young pianist Yuja Wang for an audience ...

Shoko Nakamura, the 29-year-old principal dancer of the Staatsballett Berlin, is back in Japan for a well-earned vacation and to make her debut in a classic role.