Symphonic Music

Healing, DSO's Slatkin to miss 3 more weeks

By MARK STRYKER FREE PRESS MUSIC WRITER Detroit Symphony Orchestra music director Leonard Slatkin won’t be back on the podium at Orchestra Hall until next year. Slatkin, sidelined since suffering a heart attack on Nov. 1, had...

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Handel's 'Messiah' to be presented at EIU

CHARLESTON — The Eastern Symphony Chamber Orchestra, EIU Concert Choir and Collegium Musicum will celebrate the holiday season with their presentation of Handel’s “Messiah” and its famed Hallelujah chorus.

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MSO looks to move on from discord

TREVOR Green will be leaving unfinished business in January when he exits after a decade running the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. The MSO will be based at Melbourne Town hall until 2012. Adding to this, the MSO's audience was...

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Year of Chopin starts early

Tonight's concert at the Athens Concert Hall comes with an agenda that is twofold. The event, which brings together the City of Athens Musical Ensembles under the baton of Lukas Karytinos and piano soloist Dimitris Sgouros,...

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Evening gowns, saris at Obama's first state dinner

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama welcome India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur to the State Dinner at the North Portico of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009....

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Holiday concert to be held in Manalapan

The Manalapan Arts Council will present a concert by the Manalapan Symphony Orchestra at 3 p.m. Dec. 6 at the Manalapan Englishtown Middle School, 155 Millhurst Road, Manalapan. The performance, "Champagne Pops!," will include...

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Love of music saves the show

RALEIGH, Nov 25, 2009 (The News and Observer - When officials with the financially strapped N.C. Symphony contacted renowned French pianist Pascal Roge to inform him that they could no longer afford to bring him to Raleigh as a...

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Caribbean classic - Jamaica's unique symphony orchestra showcases talent

Jamaica's renown as a wonderfully musical nation has come not only because of our prowess in reggae and jazz. We have produced, too, world-class opera singers and classical music instrumentalists. Now, add to the above a...

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MSSO to perform in Yerevan

PanARMENIAN.Net/ Moscow State Symphony Orchestra (MSSO) conducted by renowned Pavel Kogan will perform in Yerevan in the framework of Aram Khachaturian contest on November 25 and 27. The first concert program includes works by...

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Dvorak's Symphony For A 'New World'

The Bohemian composer claimed that "everyone who has a nose must smell America" in his Symphony No. 9. But rather than serve as a musical postcard from abroad, Dvorak's Symphony From the New World ultimately serves as more of a...

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