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International touring and recording artist Clairdee joins forces with the Capital Jazz Orchestra, Clayton 'Skip' Poole, Music Director, for a very special 100th birthday tribute to the great “Lady Day”, Billie Holiday, tonight, May 15, at 7:30pm.

The Oakland East Bay Symphony and Music Director Michael Morgan conclude their 2014-2015 season with “all the best in the best of all possible worlds” in the form of Leonard Bernstein's masterful and droll take on Voltaire's biting, farcical satire, Candide, which will be given one performance o

The North Country Friends of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra announces its annual benefit party, 'Uncorking Spring,' at Spates the Florist, 20 Elm Street in Newport.

Music Director Andres Orozco-Estrada concludes a successful first season with the Houston Symphony this weekend, May 15-17 at Jones Hall with Mahler's monumental Symphony No.

Aimed at guiding patrons through themes of discovery, understanding and cultural celebration, City College Center for the Arts (CCCA), presents a concert that brings together traditional and contemporary music.

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO) concludes its 2014-15 season with this weekend's concerts at historic Music Hall.

The North Carolina Symphony will pay tribute to iconic music and lavish shows in the finale of its 2014-15 Pops series, Pops Goes Vegas, tonight, May 15, and Saturday, May 16, at 8 p.

BNY Mellon Grand Classics: The Sound of a Modern Symphony highlights the power and range of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra this weekend, May 15-17 under the baton of British conductor Michael Francis.

Revel in the music of the Americas with the bold colors and spicy rhythms of Mexico's Revueltas, the sultry jazz infusion of Argentine tango master Piazzola, and the cheerful folksiness of 'the dean of American composers,' Aaron Copland.

Minnesota Orchestra President and CEO Kevin Smith announced today that the Minnesota Orchestra will perform two concerts in Cuba this weekend, May 15 and 16, becoming the first U.

Several important events in the life of the American Boychoir School will occur over one exciting weekend in mid-May.

The vast walls of Verizon Hall will be bursting with the vibrant voices of four Philadelphia-area choirs as the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts presents Praise! on Wednesday, June 10 at 8pm.

Elevate your senses and your heart rate with a BNY Mellon Grand Classics concert that takes you from high above the quiet world to a pulse-pounding turn on the dance floor on May 29 and 31 at Heinz Hall.

The Richmond Symphony invites you to enjoy a free outdoor concert on Saturday, May 30 at 7:00 pm.

Following the conclusion of a successful 2014-15 Severance Hall season on May 3, the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra (COYO) will make a nine-day, four-concert tour to China June 15-24, 2015.

South Shore Conservatory's Duxbury Music Festival (DMF) presents its tenth anniversary season, with exciting DMF faculty and student performances, and family-friendly events, from July 17 through July 31.

The Cleveland Orchestra has announced an extension of conductor Brett Mitchell's contracts.

Maestro Thierry Fischer and the Utah Symphony conclude their season hitting the midway point in their two-year Mahler Symphony Cycle performing Mahler's Symphony No.

In celebration of world famous Danish composer Carl Nielsen's 150th birthday, the talented young Danish violinist Niklas Walentin will perform four of Nielsen's compositions at a special concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

The North Carolina Symphony launches its 2015 Rex Healthcare Summerfest Series at Cary's Booth Amphitheatre on Saturday, May 23, at 7:30 p.

Enjoy an afternoon of big band jazz, featuring The Billy Strayhorn Orchestra under the direction of Michael Hashim, Sunday, June 14, 2015 at 2:30.

(ANNAPOLIS, MD – May 12, 2015) Beginning today the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra's Music Van will be on the road to provide musical instrument demonstrations for second and third graders at 14 elementary schools in Anne Arundel County.

Pacific Symphony has reunited with Academy Award-winning composer Elliot Goldenthal to release the world-premiere recording of his “Symphony in G# Minor” on the Zarathustra Music label Tuesday, May 12.

The University Musical Society (UMS) announces that Scott Hanoian has been named as the new Music Director and Conductor of the UMS Choral Union, a Grammy Award-winning Ann Arbor-based community choir managed by UMS.

The state's very best high school instrumentalists are invited to perform side-by-side with the Utah Symphony under the direction of Associate Conductor Vladimir Kulenovic in a concert presenting works by Mendelssohn and Dvo?ak.