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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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

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.

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

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.