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The Minnesota Orchestra is getting an international audience on the radio. The BBC and the orchestra have announced that BBC Radio 3 will showcase the Minnesota Orchestra in six concert broadcasts during the 2009-10 season.

Taking over a concert at short notice and making a success of it is still one of the best ways of creating an impact, and the young Danish conductor Thomas Sondergard was clearly up for the task as he replaced the BBC National Orchestra of Wales's indisposed principal conductor Thierry Fischer on the St David's Hall podium.

Nationalism has been a mighty force of inspiration to many composers, and this weekend the Kansas City Symphony will perform two great examples of nationalistic music by Bela Bartok, a Hungarian, and Jean Sibelius, a Finn.Bartoks folk-like Hungarian Sketches is one of his most popular pieces.

How do you expose classical concertgoers to new music? Well, it helps to combine some familiar with the fresh.

The Sinfonietta opened its this year's light classical series with a mixed bag of works by nationalist composers.

IT MAY only have been ten minutes long. But Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's Overture, St Francis of Assisi a ' newly commissioned by the BBC for Glasgow's Max at 75 celebrations a ' packed as much dynamite into its short duration as Strauss's Don Juan, Beeth oven's Fourth Piano Concerto or Sibelius's Seventh Symphony, all of which featured in Thursday's ...

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.

When I walked into the Recital Hall in the Redstone campus at UVM last Friday evening for a concert by Peter Sykes, fortepiano , I was totally unfamiliar with the instrument, in the sense that I had never heard one in live recital.

'It is my belief that music is great if, at some moment, the listener catches "a glimpse of eternity through the window of time " ... this, to my mind, is the only true justification for all art.

San Bernardino's Symphony opens its 2009-2010 season Saturday night in "Grand Style." The Inland Empire premieres of Jean Sibelius' Symphony no.

Local percussionist Jim Greiner will perform alongside the Percussive Arts Society in a fundraiser for local veterans' services.

I am still very much a child of the 60s and 70s,a Matthew explains, standing surrounded by classical, jazz, world, folk and blues CDs.

MUSIC SEOUL ARTS CENTER, Concert Hall Tomorrow: Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra Virtuoso Series IV.

Seven students from Finland's prestigious Sibelius Music Academy have come to the Western U.P. to show off their skills this week.

By CHRIS SHULL FORT WORTH - The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra returned to its classical concert season with a vengeance Friday at Bass Hall.

Conductor and music director Michael Stern's fourth classical season at the helm of the Kansas City Symphony, which begins next weekend, is chockablock with Jewish virtuosos, from the bookend pianists Yefim Bronfman and Vladimir Feltsman to violinist Gil Shaham to pianist Simone Dinnerstein.

The Abilene Philharmonic will kick off its 2009-2010 season with "Fire & Fury" at 8 p.m. Sept.

If he could go back in time, I wonder if Las Vegas Philharmonic conductor David Itkin might rejigger the order of the three pieces he planned for the orchestra at Saturday night's season-opening performance.

Midori When violinist Midori plays Sibelius' Violin Concerto with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra next weekend, she'll likely dazzle with precise and poetic playing.

The internationally acclaimed orchestra The Halle gets the 2009-2010 International Classical Concert Series underway at Derby's Assembly Rooms on Saturday, September 19, from 7.30pm. Sir Mark Elder will lead the orchestra through performances of Elgar's In The South, Rachmaninov's much-loved Second Piano Concerto and one of the most popular ...