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In 1946, an unknown composer from Boston gave the first big concert of his music in New York City, and touched off a bit of a revolution.

A few weeks back, there was an article posted here that speculated what kind of music Johann Sebastian Bach would have written if he had not believed in god.

The last time the Berlin Philharmonic and its conductor, Sir Simon Rattle, visited San Francisco, they nearly spun Davies Symphony Hall out of earth orbit with a performance of Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony.

Seldom-heard classical music to be featured at upcoming event By STACY LEISER * The Leaf-Chronicle * November 13, 2009 Clarksville has a Riverfront to rival Nashville's, a hospital, a winery, new industry and a growing university.

John Mauceri, the chancellor of UNC School of the Arts, often conducts symphonic fare.

For all the wondrous diversity Carnegie Hall has injected into its programming in recent years, the heart of its traditional mission lies in a few series of concerts each season: extended visits by the world's great orchestras.

Legends aren't always what they're cracked up to be. Witness the Berlin Philharmonic, at least as heard Friday night at Carnegie Hall.

One of the top two or three orchestras in the world, the Berlin Philharmonic hasn't performed locally in eight years.

The Concerts at Jewett Series sponsored by University of Maine at Augusta College of Arts and Humanities and UMA Senior College is honored to feature internationally acclaimed pianist Frank Glazer, at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov.

Richard Wagner's great-grandson, Gottfried Wagner, on Friday protested the choice of music at festivities 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which includes a composition by his "anti-semitic" great-grandfather. Israeli pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim is leading Monday's performance at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, which is to include A ...

The USC Thornton School of Music's 125th anniversary makes it the oldest continuously operating cultural institution in Los Angeles and one of the oldest music schools in the US In 1884, Los Angeles was a small city which had only recently gotten a rail line, telephone service, electric streetlights and a daily newspaper.

The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra added to Halloween night with a double bill of two dreamy and haunting pieces: Mahler's Fourth Symphony, preceded by Arnold Schoenberg's "Transfigured Night." Attendance took a hit because of Halloween festivities, which was a pity, because there is nothing like music like this to take you into the realm of the ...

And secondly we are talking about, because I am studying a little, Wasilly Kandinsky the creator and theoretician of abstract painting.

The other day I went out to buy some milk and passed Arnold Schoenberg's home. It is indeed hard to imagine, but Schoenberg, the modern musical revolutionary, once lived in Brookline.

Deutsche Bank will present a free webcast of the Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle performing Brahms's Third and Fourth symphonies on Monday, November 9 at 8.00 p.m. EST on its website, www.db.com . The webcast celebrates the start of the Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle's U.S. tour that begins at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday ...

John Adams 4:30 p.m. Oct. 28-29; Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. Free. 203-432-0670, yale.edu/whc . Perhaps the most celebrated living American composer, John Adams is nearly as adept with the English language as he is with musical notation.

Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck is based on scenes from an unfinished play, Woyzeck , by Georg Bchner.

R&B/Pop Hall&Oates, "Do What You Want, Be What You Are: The Music of Daryl Hall and John Oates" . What's so striking about the music spread across this four-disc box set is just how timeless it is.

The imperative of visionary logic goes like this: if the worldliness of the present world be false, then divest yourself of it, and precipitate a future that rings true.

Tyshawn Sorey's a drummer best known for his work with pianist Vijay Iyer. He's a trap-kicker of force and intelligence who effortlessly dominates the cooperative trio Fieldwork's last album, Door .