Vivaldi News

The Japanese automobile and engine maker is expected to present the check Sunday at Orchestra Hall during a performance by 150 Detroit elementary and middle school students.

Honda plans to give the Detroit Symphony Orchestra $150,000 this weekend to commemorate the completion of a five-year music education partnership.

You can think of Vivaldi's output around his published opuses, op.1-12 , not to mention the knock-offs in op.

For two weeks each year, Ballet West leaves its home stage at the 1,876-seat Capitol Theater to perform "Innovations" in the more intimate 500-seat JeannA© Wagner Theatre, inside Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center.

The concept of "historically informed performance" cannot possibly conjure up dusty, antiquarian associations for anyone who attended this mid-week performance of the Handel and Haydn Society.

Every two years the Burke Central Music Department goes on a trip to explore and learn about different types of music, which exposes them to various types of music, giving them a better understanding of music aside from high school concert band and choir.

If you are one of those anal personalities that needs to have your music fit snugly into precise categories, Popzzical , the new Quattro album, will drive you nuts. The dozen tracks on the album run the gamut from modern rearrangements of classical music to Latin American pop and contemporary jazz.

International Drag Sensation Varla Jean Merman is returning to London for the first time in 10 years, joining newcomers Well-Strung,The Singing String Quartet, for a two-act evening of sublime entertainment at Leicester Square Theatre from Thursday 19 September - Saturday 21 September.

Every two years the Burke Central Music Department goes on a trip to explore and learn about different types of music, which exposes them to various types of music, giving them a better understanding of music aside from high school concert band and choir.

At 109, Mary Lee Sharp wears a hearing aid and uses a walker to get around now. But she hasn't let that slow her down.

American Repertory Ballet will perform in New Jersey Performing Arts Center's second annual Jersey Moves! Festival of Dance.

Director Stuart Loungway, who now lives in New York but whose troupe remains incorporated in Highland Park, says that during this "hiatus" he made do with small venues, even presenting his work at house parties.

She's passionate - to say the least - and full of personality. She's also versatile, tearing through everything from Vivaldi to Shostakovich with a verve few classical stars can muster.

The May Choral Celebration, which will begin at 7.30pm, will include Mozart's Ave Verum, Faure's Libera Me Chorus and Vivaldi's Gloria.

George Frideric Handel was only 22 years old when he composed "Dixit Dominus," a piece that represented a step toward more complex instrumentation during the Baroque period and is his earliest surviving autograph.