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Back for the third consecutive summer, the Philadelphia Orchestra has become a much-anticipated regular at the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival.

Imagine you are an 18-year-old violinist and you have just been asked to fill in for Itzhak Perlman, one of the best violinists of the 20th century.

Few prominent conductors have such fleeting claims to greatness as Eugene Ormandy - but as the Japanese recording industry is proving, those fleeting moments are unquestionably there.

Having nearly lost a significant part of the Philadelphia Orchestra season due to funding shortfalls, the Mann Center for the Performing Arts and its public on Monday evening seemed out to reaffirm their devotion to the ensemble with 5,830 listeners - a head count usually reserved for Yo-Yo Ma or 1812 Overture with fireworks.

The allure of sibling musicians extends beyond novelty and well into telepathy. Violinist Yehudi Menuhin was always best with his pianist sister, Hephzibah; they claimed to read each other's musical minds.

The Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival starts Wednesday and many people typically associate classical music with weddings, upper-class society, and, sadly, boredom.

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic will visit Vail this summer for Bravo! - Here's what sets them apart Meredith Richards newsroom@vaildaily.com VAIL CO, Colorado ENLARGE Alan Gilbert conducts the New York Philharmonic during last year's residency.

Attending the Philadelphia Orchestra's summer concerts at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts requires a lengthier trip than a train ride to Center City, but this season's programs are easily worth the excursion to the vast lawn of the Mann, the orchestra's summer home since 1976.

Come see the world-renowned Philadelphia Orchestra as they continue their annual free summer Neighborhood Concert series at Philadelphia Universitya s Gallagher Center on Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 7:00 PM.

The Curtis Institute of Music's fast track to big-orchestra debuts turns into an express lane at the Monday opening of the Philadelphia Orchestra's summer season.

The Philadelphia Orchestra Association has named Katherine Blodgett vice president for public relations and communications, it was announced today by Association Executive Director and CEO Frank Slattery.

It is a story that has brought together an ingenious young man and a lively octogenarian and the result is the magic of music.

Bulgarian conductor Rossen Milanov has been appointed to lead the Princeton Symphony Orchestra in the US.

Guest Conductor David Robertson will lead Seattle Symphony in a program featuring two of Russia's greatest composers and a work by English composer Thomas Ades.

The Kimmel Center's projected citywide annual arts festival, to be launched in 2011, doesn't have a name yet, but its executive director is to be announced today.

The Philadelphia Orchestra returned to Washington for its thirty-eighth appearance hosted by Washington Performing Arts Society .

When guest violinist Isabelle Faust stepped forward to play an applause-warranted encore on Thursday at the Kimmel Center, you sensed that it was a test along the lines of "Just how much do you want this - really ?" Already, the German violinist - making her debut with the orchestra after Julia Fischer canceled - had established herself as having a ...

The volunteer Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra has been invited to perform in China later this year.

Following the trend of other major U.S. orchestras facing financial deficits, the Philadelphia Orchestra announced voluntary cuts yesterday that promise to save $4 million in 2010 and 2011, including a reduction of 4.8 percent in negotiated salary for players.

My library shelf holds a copy of Dennis Palumbo's 'Writing from the Inside Out: Transforming Your Psychological Blocks to Release the Writer within You' . A professional writer recommended this little book to me when I attended a mountain retreat for writers several summers ago.