CLASSICAL MUSIC NEWSROOM - Page 305

Why do we love Russian music? Is it the Romantic melodies that every listener can access? The raw emotion that moves us to tears? The way it comforts our unquiet hearts and souls? Whatever your reasons, this concert presents the triumphs, exhilaration, and jubilation that is the epitome of Russian m

Prepare to boldly go where no one has gone before with the Canadian premiere of STAR TREK (2009) WITH LIVE ORCHESTRA presented by the Sony Centre For The Performing Arts tonight, March 21.

The Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra announces the 2nd annual BPYO Young Composers Initiative, set for today, March 21st from 2:30pm-6:30pm at the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology, 41 Berkeley Street, Boston.

In March, the BPO will celebrate classical music's most beloved and influential composer with a festival, including his groundbreaking Ninth Symphony.

Celebrate Bach's 330th birthday today, March 21, 2015 with a two-CD set IN TRANSLATION: SELECTIONS FROM J.

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra presents Dvorak's Fifth Symphony and Romance, alongside works by Ravel and Dohnanyi, April 24-26 in Newark and Red Bank.

The Music Institute of Chicago's popular Chicago Duo Piano Festival, as part of its mission to foster the performance and teaching of music for piano duo for young performers, presents its 2015 Competition for Young Piano Duos May 30 at Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Avenue, Evanston.

The Collegiate Chorale concludes its 2014-2015 season with the US Premiere of Kurt Weill's The Road of Promise May 6, 2015 at 8pm and May 7, 2015 at 7pm at Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Avenue, New York, NY 10019.

New York chorus Amor Artis, joined by pianist-composer Timo Andres, will perform Luigi Dallapiccola's 20th-century cri de coeur, Canti di Prigionia (Songs of Imprisonment), and other Renaissance and contemporary works that draw on the words of the martyred 15th-century Dominican friar Girolamo Savon

The Houston Symphony is celebrating the conclusion of an eventful 2014-15 season with a varied and innovative lineup of classical, POPS and community concerts.

Bradley Brookshire will perform the Prayers and Dances program on Sundayfor Giuseppe Schinaia, who will not be able to perform because of illness.

The World Music Institute and 92nd Street Y announce a rare U.

Classical sacred music foundation Soli Deo Gloria, Inc.

The Count Basie Orchesta, led by trumpeter Scotty Barnart, makes its first appearance at the Gallo Center for the Arts tonight, March 20.

Jeanette Sorrell returns to Heinz Hall as guest conductor and harpsichordist for Bach's Coffeehouse, a BNY Mellon Grand Classics weekend with concerts today, March 20 and Sunday, March 22.

Cantata Singers presents Mozart's iconic, unfinished C Minor Mass, alongside Beethoven's Elegiac Song and Haydn's Symphony No.

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra welcomes Grammy Award-winning a cappella gospel group Take 6 will headline the popular Classical Roots concert at Cincinnati's Music Hall tonight.

Marin Alsop leads the BSO in a program of Viennese-inspired favorites, including Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales ('Noble and sentimental waltzes') and La Valse ('The Waltz'), Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier ('The Rose Cavalier') Suite, and Haydn's Cello Concerto, performed by Argentinean cellist

The Morrisson Theatre Chorus, under the musical direction of César Cancino, presents its Spring Concert: The Magic of Movies and Music today, March 20 and tomorrow, March 21 at 8:00pm and March 22, 2015, at 2:00pm.

The hypnotic crescendo of Ravel's Bolero sets the heart racing like no other piece of music while offering an unsurpassed display of orchestral virtuosity.

Music Director Alan Gilbert will lead the New York Philharmonic in Beethoven's Egmont Overture and Shostakovich's Symphony No.

The heavenly beauty of Fauré's Requiem provides a soothing epilogue to Sibelius' thrilling call to freedom and Nielsen's stirring symphonic ode to optimism.

Friends and supporters of the Handel and Haydn Society come together on the evening of Saturday, April 18 to celebrate the extraordinary milestone of H+H's Bicentennial.

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra with its Chief Conductor David Robertson has released a new recording of Holst's The Planets on its label Sydney Symphony Live, to coincide with a mass-participation multimedia performance of the work on the evening of Earth Hour, March 28.

Wells of Life, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to providing fresh drinking water to children and families in Uganda, announced that its first-ever water well to honor the victims of September 11, 2001 is now fully operational and providing fresh drinking water to communities in need.