Events and Festivals
Lera Auerbach featured at the prestigious Verbier, Pacific and West Cork Classical Music Festivals in JulyJuly 02, 2009
The Verbier Festival in Switzerland, Pacific Music Festival in Japan, and West Cork Chamber Music Festival in Ireland to perform and premiere music by Lera Auerbach this July in a series of composer portraits. She is also a featured guest poet and lecturer at the West Cork Literary Festival.
Half-dozen classical music festivals and concerts series beckon
July 02, 2009
Summer is the season when classical musicians traditionally rusticate and play concerts in resort communities in northern New Hampshire and western Maine, and this year six classical music festivals and concert series in the two-state region beckon listeners from the Mount Washington Valley. Perfor-mances vary in scope and size, ranging from small, intimate settings for chamber music to full symphonic repertoire performed in spacious concert halls.
Met Announces Free Summer Events: Six Outdoor Concerts and Ten HD Screenings
June 29, 2009
The Met will present a variety of free outdoor events this summer. In addition to a number of concert recitals to be held in all five boroughs, the Opera's Summer HD Festival will screen ten productions of Live in HD on consecutive nights in Lincoln Center Plaza.
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Top HeadlinesAvailable for birthdays, weddings and bar mitzvahs... one of Europe's leading orchestrasJuly 02, 2009 The Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra has lived through a lot in the past 20 years. Yugoslavia has been reinvented in different, ever-shrinking configurations, finally dissolving altogether with the divorce of Serbia and Montenegro. Belgrade has gone from being the capital of the West's favourite communist state to a warmongering pariah, target of 78 days of Nato bombing raids, to being the latest applicant to join the EU. Through it all the band played on. So it is ironic, now Serbia has at last a real prospect of rejoining the West, that the city's finest flowering of classical Western culture should be struggling to survive. But that was the sub-text of an advertisement that recently appeared in the city's papers, to readers' consternation.
Saint Louis Symphony Reports Increase in Revenue, Audiences in 2008-'09 Season July 02, 2009 
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The SLSO onstage at Powell Hall.
This past season has been a banner one for the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Not only did music director David Robertson make his singing and kazoo-playing debut at Carnegie Hall and management negotiate a three-year labor agreement with the musicians an entire year ahead of schedule, but the SLSO even made more money by playing for larger audiences.
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Ensemble and Performer NewsContempory classical music has brought orchestra, Gier good luckJuly 02, 2009 There's no doubt that classical works by the great masters of the past 400 years dominate the material played by the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra. "And that's going to continue to be our primary objective, but every orchestra does that," says music director and conductor Delta David Gier. So he makes it a point to program about 20 percent contemporary classical music, too.
Composer NewsEven Bach Needed GoldbergJuly 02, 2009 When audiences at Telluride MusicFest are introduced to Philip Glass's violin sonata Thursday night in Colorado, many will admire the lush expressiveness of the music. Some may note a recent preoccupation with chamber music on the part of a composer best known for film scores and operas. But few will know that this latest work by America's most famous living composer was a private commission by an amateur violinist in Harrisburg, Pa., looking for an original birthday gift for his wife.
ReviewsClassical music CD reviews: Outstanding performances of Fennimore and HandelJuly 02, 2009 After all the keyboard showpieces whipped into frenzies at the recent Cliburn Competition, this collection of pianistic intimacies from American composer Joseph Fennimore is balm to the ears. An eloquent pianist himself, Fennimore (b. 1940) writes with unassuming skill and directness for his instrument. But these mostly recent works – Cathay, Tourmaline and the 13th Romance all from this decade – also open up magic gardens of sound and haunting beauties.
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