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The Princeton Symphony Orchestra gave its sold-out audience on Sunday afternoon a comprehensive lesson in Russian history.

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Lawrence Power , viola player with the Nash Ensemble and the Leopold String Trio , has a rapidly expanding solo discography exploring unfamiliar repertoire by York Bowen, Vaughan Williams, Takemitsu and now Shostakovich.

If you are looking for the best in alternative atmospheres on this particular day, then a chamber concert with musicians from the SF Symphony is absolutely IT.

From a stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf's stories to Afghan and Indian music residencies; a modern dance and sculpture collaboration to a celebration of the Rose Art Museum, the spring arts season features a variety of offerings to entertain and challenge.

Enjoy a classical concert at The Ferguson Library Sunday, February 19 at 2 p.m. when the Lumina String Quartet performs works by Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Admission is free.

The Emerson String Quartet will take a trip to Stamford Saturday, Feb. 11, when it will perform at the Palace Theatre.

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.

While the Republicans were debating in Tampa, the Cleveland Orchestra was providing world class entertainment at the Van Weze in Sarasota, Monday night.

Late replacements can make a career. One wonders what the future now holds for Andrew Gourlay , assistant conductor of the HallA©, who took over the BBC Symphony Orchestra 's latest concert from the indisposed Thomas Dausgaard.

'Power in the Blood' will receive a country/rock treatment, and preludes by Shostakovich will add a Classical element.

How much does programming matter in classical music? Joshua Bell was originally scheduled to play Dmitri Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto with the Oregon Symphony this weekend but, as announced last month, played Johannes Brahms's Violin Concerto instead.