The Oberlin Conservatory of Music and The Cleveland Orchestra announce a New International Piano and Violin Competition for young musicians. The inaugural year of the Thomas and Evon Cooper International Competition features piano, with finals scheduled for July 30, 2010, at Severance Hall, Home of the Cleveland Orchestra.

The grammy nominated North/South Chamber Orchestra conducted by Max Lifchitz performs four recent works by composers from Italy and the US on Tuesday, June 16 at 8 PM.

Max Lifchitz and the grammy nominated North/South Chamber Orchestra premiere five new works by composers from Canada, Japan, Mexico and the US on Tuesday, June 9 at 8 PM.

Allan Von Schenkel and Kristen Williams perform 13 brief lyrical works for double bass and piano written especially for them by American composers.

It was in 1990 that American troops played deafening pop and heavy metal music day and night outside the Vatican Mission in to Panama City that Noriega surrendered. In the future this strategy might have to be changed.In the Guardian, U.K. on the 2nd of April,2009 Tom Service asked: Why we are shutting children out of classical music.

Opera was invented in Florence, Italy towards the latter part of the 16th century by a group of wealthy intellectuals and musicians. Their goal was to reproduce the dramas of the ancient Greeks using the plays and text that already existed. Europe was in the throes of the Renaissance period and during that time, architects, musicians, and writers became fascinated with ancient cultures, particularly the Greeks.

Klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer plays Ofer Ben Amots klezmer Concerto with the North/South Chamber Orchestra on Monday, February 9 at 8 PM in New York City.

If there's an expected event that I've read about in the past few, well, years, it's this one. Condoleezza Rice playing a piano recital for the Queen? Yes.

Saturday, March 29 at 8 p.m. KOCE-TV will Air Ground-Breaking Footage from the First North Korean Visit by an American Cultural Organization since the Korean Peninsula was Divided

Five American composers will hear their recent works for Viol performed by the well-known members of Parthenia.