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Yesterday | SF Sentinel

Gautier Capua on, Cellist a " Debut with San Francisco Symphony

The Best of San Francisco Stage, Film, Fashion, Dining, Travel, Business, Philanthropy, and Governance - Challah Is Taken Monday 09th of November 2009 GAUTIER CAPUA ON, Cellist - " Debut with San Francisco Symphony 9 November 2009 Famed cellist will perform Schumann's Cello Concerto in A minor , Opus 129 By SeA n Martinfield Sentinel Editor and ...

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Related Topix: Symphony, Arts, Classical, San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco, CA, Journalism

Sat Nov 07, 2009

EDGEphiladelphia.com Entertainment Feed

The Philadelphia Orchestra :: from Jurowski with love

Since Queer as Folk went of the air, Peter Paige has been taking one acting challenge after another.

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Related Topix: Classical, Soap Opera, Queer as Folk, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Peter Paige, Social Software

Fri Nov 06, 2009

MyCentralJersey.com

The total package

You got to practice to get to Carnegie Hall. But once you get there, you got to nail it.

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Related Topix: Symphony, Arts, Publishing, New York Times, Classical

Sun Nov 01, 2009

The Philadelphia Tribune

Classical pianist says economy hurts budding musicians

Renowned classical pianist Andre Watts will appear in recital at the Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Nov.

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Related Topix: Classical, Andre Watts, Schubert, Franz Schubert, Liszt, Franz Liszt

Philly.com

Orchestra and audience evoke concerts of Halloweens past

Groucho Marx infiltrated the bassoon section. An attractive blonde was keeping company with the double basses.

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Related Topix: Classical, Life, Holidays, Halloween

Wed Oct 28, 2009

Iowa City Press-Citizen

Tuba player to perform today

Carol Jantsch, principal tuba of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the first female tuba player in a major U.S. symphony orchestra, will perform as a guest of the University of Iowa School of Music at 7:30 p.m. today in the University Capitol Centre Recital Hall, located in the Old Capitol Town Center in downtown Iowa City.

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Related Topix: Classical, Symphony, Arts, University of Iowa

Mon Oct 26, 2009

Philly.com

ArtsWatch: Jurowski the Teacher

Conductors, these days especially, have to be more than musicians. They are advocates, teachers and, in a substantive way, cheerleaders for the art form.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Music!, Die Fledermaus, Classical

Sun Oct 25, 2009

Philly.com

A contender

Any conductor out to make a splash isn't likely to program pieces that more or less play themselves, such as Rossini's Barber of Seville overture and Mendelssohn's Symphony No.

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Related Topix: Symphony, Classical

Fri Oct 23, 2009

KERA-TV Dallas

Eight Years of Jaap Van Zweden

The Dallas Symphony Association announced today that the orchestra and Music Director Jaap van Zweden have agreed to extend his current four-year contract through the 2015-2016 season.

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Related Topix: Symphony, Arts, Dallas Metro, Dallas, TX, Classical, Jaap Van Zweden, New York Philharmonic

Wed Oct 21, 2009

Forward

Creating an Arab-Israeli Dialogue, One Note at a Time

On a rain-drenched afternoon in Philadelphia, I entered a small underground room at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts to observe a rehearsal of "Resonances" - a new composition commissioned by Intercultural Journeys, an Arab/Jewish ensemble that utilizes the arts as a vehicle to produce dialogue between the Israeli and Arab peoples.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Classical

Sun Oct 18, 2009

PittsburghLIVE.com

Pittsburgh Symphony makes 'A Woman's Song' moving experience

The Pittsburgh Symphony concert Friday night felt like a new start to the season, so refreshing was it to encounter two rewarding American scores - one of them a notable world premiere.

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Related Topix: Symphony, Arts, Pittsburgh Metro, Classical, Leonard Slatkin

Fri Oct 16, 2009

Philly.com

ArtsWatch: Philadelphia Orchestra Tickets At Deep Discount

The Philadelphia Orchestra has put its upcoming Saturday night and Sunday afternoon concerts on sale.

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Related Topix: Classical, Arts, Symphony

Wed Oct 14, 2009

New York Times

Orchestra, Challenged, Showing Its Stength

The Philadelphia Orchestra has spent the last year fighting its way out of financial, managerial and artistic disarray, and though it has lately made progress on several of those fronts, it continues to search for a music director to relieve Charles Dutoit , who is filling in as its chief conductor.

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Related Topix: Classical, Philadelphia, PA, Music, Entertainment

Lower Township Gazette

C.E.R. sponsors trip to glorious 'Sounds of Music' show

The Brigantine Community Education and Recreation Department is sponsoring a trip to the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia to see the "Glorious Sounds of Music Show" performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra.

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Related Topix: Brigantine, NJ, Classical

Sun Oct 11, 2009

Philly.com

Orchestra and pianist show interpretive power

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 ...

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Related Topix: Classical, Prokofiev, Symphony, Arts, Arturo Toscanini

Fri Oct 09, 2009

Liverpool Daily Post

Music Reviews: REVIEW: RLPO and Hannu Lintu, Philharmonic Hall

JUST reading the biography of Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara - studies at the Juilliard School in New York, performances by the Philadelphia Orchestra and others in the USA, orchestral works, operas, chamber music - one wonders where he's been hiding for the last half century.

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Related Topix: Classical, Einojuhani Rautavaara

Wed Oct 07, 2009

Southwest Philadelphia Review

Cardella

I'm not sure what Harrisburg was thinking when it decided to impose a tax on tickets to cultural events while specifically exempting sports.

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Related Topix: Classical, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama

Mon Oct 05, 2009

The Courier-Journal

Size bred trouble in Philly

Andrew Adler The next time anyone declares it's OK for arts organizations to run substantial deficits , take a look at what's happening to the Philadelphia Orchestra.

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Related Topix: Classical, Louisville, KY

Sat Oct 03, 2009

Philly.com

With Dutoit, sounding fine

The Philadelphia Orchestra now has a compelling, if regrettable, story line: Finances are a mess, but it plays great.

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Related Topix: Classical

Fri Oct 02, 2009

New York Times

Robust Preseason for Ailing Philadelphia Orchestra

The timing was uncanny. Just last week the new chairman of the Philadelphia Orchestra , Richard B. Worley, announced that it would have to raise $15 million in emergency funds to head off crippling deficits this season and next.

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Related Topix: Classical, Verizon Communications, Telecom, IT Services, Philadelphia, PA, Symphony, Arts, Music, Entertainment

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