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Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) concludes its enlightening "Baroque Conversations" series with a program led by celebrated organist and early music artist Martin Haselbock, marking his LACO debut, on Thursday, May 3, 2012, 7 pm, at Zipper Hall in downtown Los Angeles.

Spanish conductor Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos returns to the New York Philharmonic to conduct music from two secular cantatas: selections from Falla's Atlantida, and Orff's complete Carmina burana - which the Orchestra has not performed since 1995 - Thursday, May 31, 2012, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, June 1, at 8:00 p.m., and Saturday, June 2, at 8:00 p.m. The international cast that Mr. Fru?hbeck has assembled for these performances features American soprano Erin Morley, American tenor Nicholas Phan (in his Philharmonic debut), South African baritone Jacques Imbrailo (debut), the Spanish chorus Orpheo?n Pamplone?s, Igor Ijurra Ferna?ndez, director (debut), and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Dianne Berkun, director.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic devotes a week to celebrating Franz Schubert's contributions to symphonic, chamber and vocal music with Sublime Schubert, presenting performances beginning Monday, April 16 and ending Sunday, April 22, at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic devotes a week to celebrating Franz Schubert's contributions to symphonic, chamber and vocal music with Sublime Schubert, presenting performances beginning Monday, April 16 and ending Sunday, April 22, at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

In a return engagement with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO), The Collegiate Chorale will perform 11 concerts in Tel Aviv and Haifa with the IPO under the baton of conductors Zubin Mehta and Riccardo Muti. They will then travel with the IPO to Austria to make their Salzburg Festival debut, the first performance there by an American choir since the Chicago Symphony Chorus appeared in 1989.

Now the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, under the direction of founder Dianne Berkun, concludes its anniversary celebration with five events in five months.

On Sunday, April 29 at 4pm, the Amerigo Trio will perform at the Rubin Museum of Art (150 W. 17th St., NYC) as part of the Museum's Resonating Light concerts, a Sunday classical music series hosted by WQXR's Elliott Forrest.

Maestro David Zinman, making his NJPAC debut, conducts the New York Philharmonic and recent MacArthur Foundation Fellow Alisa Weilerstein in a Beethoven and Barber program in NJPAC's Prudential Hall on Friday, March 9 at 8pm. This performance is part of NJPAC's Bank of America Classical Series and is presented during the Philharmonic's three week Modern Beethoven festival in Manhattan under the baton of Zinman.

Now the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, under the direction of founder Dianne Berkun, concludes its anniversary celebration with five events in five months.

Music Director Jeffrey Kahane serves as musical "tour guide" for Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra's annual "Discover" concert on Saturday, February 25, 2012, 8 pm, at Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena, which this season features a special one-night-only exploration of Bach's Magnificat, a pinnacle of choral literature.

DanceWorks, Toronto's longest-running contemporary dance series, presents Sylvain Émard Danse with the Toronto premiere of Fragments - Volume I, four dance works set in four contrasting worlds, choreographed by the award-winning Sylvain Émard of Montreal. Fragments - Volume I runs for ONE NIGHT ONLY - Saturday, March 3, 8PM - at Harbourfront Centre's Enwave Theatre.

Music Director Jeffrey Kahane serves as musical "tour guide" for Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra's annual "Discover" concert on Saturday, February 25, 2012, 8 pm, at Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena, which this season features a special one-night-only exploration of Bach's Magnificat, a pinnacle of choral literature.

Maestro David Zinman, making his NJPAC debut, conducts the New York Philharmonic and recent MacArthur Foundation Fellow Alisa Weilerstein in a Beethoven and Barber program in NJPAC's Prudential Hall on Friday, March 9 at 8pm. This performance is part of NJPAC's Bank of America Classical Series and is presented during the Philharmonic's three week Modern Beethoven festival in Manhattan under the baton of Zinman.

The Collegiate Chorale is set to present Tippett's A Child of Our Time and Bruckner's Te Deum on Friday, February 3, 2012 at 7pm at Carnegie Hall, 881 Seventh Avenue, NYC.

Bramwell Tovey will lead the New York Philharmonic at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in a program of works by Bernstein, Gershwin, and Tchaikovsky, Saturday, July 7, 2012, at 8:00 p.m. Canadian soprano Tracy Dahl will be the soloist in the coloratura aria, "Glitter and Be Gay" from Bernstein's Candide, along with songs by Gershwin, including "The Man I Love" and "Fascinatin' Rhythm," arranged by Mr. Tovey. Also on the program are Three Dance Episodes from Bernstein's On the Town, and two works by Tchaikovsky: music from Act IV of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, and the 1812 Overture.

On Wednesday, January 25 at 7 p.m., the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust will present the New York premiere of The Chosen, a staged reading of the play based on the 1967 novel by Chaim Potok.

Under the leadership of Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, The Cleveland Orchestra has become one of the most sought-after performing ensembles in the world. Enjoy one of their breathtaking performances live at the Van Wezel Mon. Jan. 23 @ 8 PM.

Under the leadership of Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, The Cleveland Orchestra has become one of the most sought-after performing ensembles in the world. Enjoy one of their breathtaking performances live at the Van Wezel Mon. Jan. 23 @ 8 PM.

The Collegiate Chorale is set to present Tippett's A Child of Our Time and Bruckner's Te Deum on Friday, February 3, 2012 at 7pm at Carnegie Hall, 881 Seventh Avenue, NYC.

Guest conductor Matthias Bamert, guest violinist Yossif Ivanov, and the Columbus Symphony will explore the emerging maturity of Mozart's first minor-key symphony and the transformational appeal of a Brahms' string quartet transcribed as a work for full orchestra in the "Mozart & Brahms" program.