Percussionists drum up interest among orchestra fans
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A few composers are seeing new possibilities for percussion concertos. At least four such pieces are scheduled in the US over the next month.
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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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When the Iraqi National Symphony  Orchestra (INSO) holds a concert in Baghdad, organizers don't  like to advertise: in fact they would prefer as few people as  possible know about it.
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Hand-held noisemakers were the promotional giveaway yesterday at Miami's Dolphin Stadium, which allowed the many transplanted New Yorkers in the stands to create quite a din for their first-place Mets.
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Indian-born conductor Zubin Mehta is reportedly keen to take up the baton in Iraq in the belief that music can unite warring peoples.
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The Sphinx Organization, a national nonprofit, works to increase minority participation in classical music.
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There is a rough science to choosing performance-enhancing music.
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Busy adjusting to their new world-class instruments, the string section of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra aren't talking about bad publicity.
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The announced retirement of Joseph Robinson of the New York Philharmonic has brought the count of oboist vacancies in major U.S. symphonies to eight.
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Fanfare of trumpets for world's biggest passenger airliner
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A growing number of contemporary musicians and techno enthusiasts have reignited interest in the Moog, which can synthesize any sound imaginable.
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The supermannequin Shalom Harlow has a distinct appreciation for percussion.
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A full house inside. Hundreds of people outside. A national TV audience. What more could an orchestra want? That's what the New York Philharmonic got on opening night, all that, plus two pianists.
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Being female and Chinese in the classical music business are helpful in getting yourself noticed, but careers are built â and this one is building fast â on substance. Xian  Zhang has it.
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Composers who are also active conductors gain direct experience with a wide array of music, especially if they are as adventurous as Esa-Pekka Salonen.
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For almost three decades the College Music Journal Music Marathon has been a place for up-and-coming bands like R.E.M., Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Killers to be discovered and signed by top New York record executives.
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The composer and musician shares his stylish essentials.