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The London Symphony Orchestra announced today the appointment of Sir Simon Rattle as its Music Director.

Multifaceted artist and Swedish clarinetist Martin Fröst will make his Houston Symphony debut at Jones Hall on March 14-15 under the baton of Music Director Andrés Orozco-Estrada.

Award-winning architect Frederick Fisher, who has earned international recognition for his work with spaces such as Bergamot Station & Galleries, Santa Monica's Annenberg Beach House and Descanso Gardens' Sturt Haaga Gallery of Art, joins the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) for its acclaimed We

The London Symphony Orchestra announced today the appointment of Sir Simon Rattle as its Music Director.

Chattanooga, TN – The Chattanooga Symphony & Opera's Barnett & Company Masterworks Series concert on March 12 will feature the CSO's Concertmaster Holly Mulcahy performing Jennifer Higdon's Violin Concerto, which won a Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2010.

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra continues its commitment to nurture new work and young composers with its 11th Annual Reading Session on Saturday, March 21 at 11 a.

Highly regarded for popularizing traditional Irish folk music across the world, “The Chieftains” bring their bagpipes, banjos and exciting musicality to Pacific Symphony Pops for an extension of this year's St.

Following the acclaimed Strauss Festival that wrapped up its winter season, the San AntonioSymphony is closing out its year with a stellar series of musical performances ranging from the always popular Pops series featuring ARRIVAL from Sweden performing The Music of ABBA, a musical tribute the John

Over the past 150 years, there have been many significant presentations of Verdi's Requiem, but none was more powerful than the 16 performances put on by prisoners at the Terezin concentration camp during World War II.

On Friday, March 13 at 8 PM, period bassoonist Nate Helgeson and Mercury bring one of classical music's most well-loved bassoon works, Mozart's Bassoon Concerto in B flat major, to the Cullen Theater at the Wortham Center.

Disney in Concert: Magical Music from the Movies will play at the Orpheum Theatre for two performances only on Saturday, March 28th, 2015 at 7:30 PM and Sunday, March 29th, 2015 at 2:00 PM.

The Center for Public Leadership (CPL) at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) announced today that Los Angeles Philharmonic President and Chief Executive Officer Deborah Borda will join the Center for Public Leadership community as a Hauser Leader-in-Residence.

February 25, 2015 – Chattanooga, TN The Chattanooga Symphony & Opera Youth Orchestras (CSOYO) continue their 2014/15 season on March 9 at 7:30pm at Brainerd Baptist Church with a concert performed by the CSOYO Symphony with Gary Wilkes conducting, featuring An American in Paris by George Gershw

Oakland, CA, February 27, 2015 – 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, wh

The 19th annual Hearts for the Arts is February 28, 2015 at 6:00 p.

Are you dreaming of traveling to a far off place? Photographing lions and elephants on an African Safari? Prefer a fabulous weekend in New York City at the Metropolitan Opera or a fancy cocktail party for you and your friends based off the hit TV show "Mad Men"? These and many more one-of-a kind ite

Join us February 28 for "American Chamber Works," a special chamber-music prelude to the Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra's winter-evening concert showcasing rarely-performed works by American composers.

Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts continues the 2014-15 Early Music series with FROM THE IMPERIAL COURT featuring Stile Antico.

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On Today, February 28, 2015 at 8pm, the 92Y will present the New York debut of the harp-guitar duo comprised of internationally acclaimed harpist Yolanda Kondonassis and virtuoso classical guitarist Jason Vieaux in recital atKaufmann Concert Hall.

February 11, 2015 - Richmond, Virginia Diva showstoppers from Broadway, opera and popular music join the Richmond Symphony for a wicked good time today, February 28 at 8:00 p.

Famed tenor Anthony Kearns, a founding member of The Irish Tenors, will perform during a special Irish-themed reception and tribute to U.

A globally acclaimed countertenor, a celebrated medieval specialist, an organist of the Duomo of Florence, and an art historian of that city's treasures offer a compelling schedule of concerts, lectures, and a private gallery tour.

This special Bainbride Symphony Orchestra program is one of celebration, community, and the American spirit.

Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts ("The Wallis") presents Brentano String Quartet for a program of chamber music on Saturday, May 9 at 8:00 pm in the Bram Goldsmith Theatre.