On May 24 the Schonbrunn Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic will take place for the fourth time - with free admission for the public with conductor Valery Gergiev. The annual concert has already become an event recognized around the world as a highpoint among Austria's cultural attractions.
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Toronto's Premier Chamber Music Series Presents "Dance Related" Featuring the Seiler String Quartet with Special Guest Sasha Ivanochko
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Mstislav Rostropovich, the ebullient master cellist who fought for the rights of Soviet-era dissidents and later triumphantly played Bach suites below the crumbling Berlin Wall, has died, The Associated Press reported on Friday quoting a statement by Rostropovich's spokeswoman. He was 80.
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Vienna State Opera will perform Wagner's "Die Walkuere" and "Siegfried" and other three productions for its coming season, according to a listing on its Web site available Wednesday.
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On Friday, March 23 and Saturday, March 24 at 8 pm in the Schuster Center, Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra Guest Conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto and guest violinist Nicola Benedetti will present a program of especially diverse works.
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Imagine five siblings growing up together. Now, take that one step further - envision each one is a piano virtuoso, so much so, all five studied piano at the Juilliard School of Music - at the same time - a first for the prestigious school! No, it's not a fantasy - it's The 5 Browns: Desirae, Deondra, Gregory, Melody, and Ryan. Together, they are a worldwide sensation and on Tuesday, February 6, all five will grace the stage of the McCallum Theatre, with the curtain rising at 8pm.
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Composer Tigran Mansourian (Armenia) represented the concert premiers he is going to give next year in France, USA and Sweden. In particular, he will perform pieces that are of more philosophical character. He explained that the musical pieces composed last year were based on his mood as a result of his wife's death.
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Everyone who visits the website of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (www.gardnermuseum.org) will be able to download free classical music and share it with anyone, anywhere.
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Cincinnati-based NPR station WGUC plays classical music 24 hours a day, reaching out to the genre's newcomers and longtime aficionados alike. WGUC music director Kent Teeters compiled this list of the 10 best classical CD discoveries of 2006.
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CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ANNOUNCES MAJOR RADIO AND RECORDING INITIATIVES
CSO RETURNS TO WEEKLY NATIONAL RADIO BROADCASTS IN 2007 WITH THE BP CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SERIES ON 98.7WFMT AND THE WFMT RADIO NETWORK
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Together with the world's leading symphony orchestras - the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, the Wiener Philharmoniker, the London Symphony and the Rotterdam Philharmonic - Valery Gergiev will embark on a mammoth world tour to mark one hundred years since the birth of Dmitry Shostakovich.
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Into the Little Hill, composed by George Benjamin, the internationally renowned composer and conductor and Henry Purcell Professor of Composition at King's, premieres in Paris tonight (22 November). The opera marks the centrepiece of a retrospective of Professor Benjamin's works by the 35th Festival d'Automne.
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