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PLYMOUTH -  Two Plymouth students have been chosen to play with the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras this season.  Percussionist William Dinardo Jr. and clarinetist Sara Purdy were among 350 musicians selected from nearly 700 elementary and secondary students who auditioned.
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The American Symphony Orchestra will make a case for the often overlooked, formidable composer Carl Czerny in Sunday's program at Avery Fisher Hall.
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Commission an original composition for $2,000, or even $5. Some music lovers have even formed investment clubs to raise funds for new works.
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Conducting the Tehran Symphony Orchestra requires some adjustments. Money is scarce. The female musicians wear headscarves. An old favorite such as Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 could mean criticism from conservative quarters.
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David Robertson is to lead the Lucerne Festivalâs orchestra in two of its three concerts at the hall next month instead of an ailing Claudio Abbado.
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A two-keyboard piano from the late 1920âs allows a pianist to provide a visual and aural experience for Bachâs âGoldbergâ Variations.
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James Levine conducted two major works by John Harbison and Elliott Carter on Sunday afternoon at Weill Recital Hall.
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Lorin Maazel had a comparatively easy job last night in the first of this week's New York Philharmonic subscription programs. On the first half of the program, he led Mozart's Symphony No. 29 and the Horn Concerto No. 1 by Richard Strauss. He then ceded the podium to Xian Zhang, an assistant conductor at the Philharmonic since 2002, when she won first prize in the Maazel/Vilar Conductors' Competition. Ms. Zhang's task was more rigorous: she led the world premiere of
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Jiri Belohlavek is chosen as new chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
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A picture caption last Sunday in the Evening Hours column reversed the identities of two guests at a dinner on Jan. 26 after the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestraâs debut at Carnegie Hall. The cellist Alban Gerhardt was second from right; the violinist Augustin Hadelich was at the far right.
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The music composer was in the US for his concert.
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The Cleveland Orchestra gave a mere three performances this week in Usher Hall at the three-week International, but they certainly didn't go unnoticed.
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The Halle Orchestra, one of Great Britain's oldest symphony orchestras, has not toured the United States in more than a decade, so spirits were high when the group secured dates at Lincoln Center and in Upstate New York for performances last winter.
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Rail companies will be able to add the presence of an orchestra and the cast of an opera to the litany of excuses used for delayed trains this autumn.
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So, people ask Harvard's fullback/tenor, is there any connection between football and opera? "Incredibly so," nods Noah Van Niel, who handles defensive linemen and Donizetti with equal aplomb. "It's rehearsing a set of skills and then going out and performing. There's pressure and there's an audience and there's nerves: Can I do this?"
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E' stato un grande direttore d'orchestra e compositore
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Paul Oakenfold is famous as a DJ, but  this week the pioneer of &quot;trance&quot; dance music assumed the  unusual role of playing with a 75-piece orchestra for  well-heeled, champagne-sipping classical music lovers.