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Composer and pianist Philip Glass returns to Emory's Schwartz Center for Performing Arts tonight, September 27 at 8 p.

Celebrity Series of Boston has announced its October 2013 performances.

The Deering Estate At Cutler presents The 2013 2014 'Living Artist Concert Series', from September 2013 - May 2014 at the Deering Estate at Cutler, 16701 SW 72 Avenue, Miami, Fla.

The Music Institute of Chicago is offering free lunchtime concerts and conversation one Wednesday per month.

The Minnesota Orchestra Board Negotiating Committee—aided by a coalition of community supporters—has issued its fourth contract proposal in the ongoing labor dispute with the Musicians' Union.

The new home of the Canton Symphony Orchestra - the Zimmermann Symphony Center - is now visibly changing the shape of the McKinley High School campus.

Improv Everywhere put a Carnegie Hall orchestra in the middle of New York City and placed an empty podium in front of the musicians with a sign that read, 'Conduct Us.

The Stockton Symphony is thrilled to announce that it will receive organized and sustained support from the local Latino community in the newly formed Amigos for the Artes-Symphony.

Parissa, known as one of the foremost female vocalists from Iran and for her command of the classical and Sufi genres of Persian music, performs both centuries-old Persian works and brings a fresh approach to rarely heard songs of the past century on Friday, November 8 at 8:30 p.

The 2013-14 Columbus Symphony Youth Orchestra (CSYO), comprised of 97 students from 20 Ohio school districts, will showcase CSO violinist Alicia Hui in its concert at the Capitol Theatre on Sunday, October 6.

Music Director Robert Spano will lead the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in the 2013-14 Season opening weekend performances tonight, September 26 and 27, 2013, at 8:00 p.

The University of Maryland School of Music brings musician-poet, Sidney Clopton Lanier to life in a presentation that honors his creative legacy and artistic contribution to his adopted home, Baltimore, during the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era.

Tonight, September 26, 28 and 29, the Houston Symphony will perform Rachmaninoff's exciting choral piece The Bells for the second time in the organization's 100-year history.

Cult comedy sensation 'Mortified' is kicking off the school year tonight, September 26th at Littlefield in Brooklyn with a supersized Back to School show featuring live music.

Pacific Symphony celebrates its 35th anniversary season by opening with a concert featuring the stunning virtuosity of 19-year-old piano phenomenon Conrad Tao, who returns for his third appearance to perform Rachmaninoff's powerful Piano Concerto No.

Mandolin virtuoso -composer -vocalist Chris Thile,of Punch Brothers, returns to Philadelphia to perform new works from his recent album release,Bach: Sonatas & Partitas, Vol.

Internationally acclaimed cellist, Alisa Weilerstein, will perform together with German cello soloist Daniel Müller-Schott and New York Philharmonic Principal Cellist Carter Brey in a concert of Penderecki's Concerto Grosso, celebrating the composer's 80th birthday, with guest conductor Charles Dut

Last year Beethoven's Ninth Symphony had been scheduled for the week that may well have been the most horrific in Boston's history.

2013 marks the bicentennial of Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi's birth! In honor of this event, the Richmond Symphony has announced Verdi's Requiem, the second Altria Masterworks Concert of the 2013-2014 season!

River Oaks Chamber Orchestra (ROCO) continues its 2013 – 2014 ROCO Chamber Series on Sunday, October 13 at 4:00 pm with a concert inspired by musical, spiritual and physical connections called Intercontinental Connections.

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra officially welcomes its new Music Director, Louis Langrée, with an inaugural concert program on November 8-10, 2013 that honors the Orchestra's rich history and ushers in an exciting new era for the CSO.

Musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra have rejected the third contract proposal issued by the Orchestra Board of Directors in the organization's ongoing labor dispute.

Two members of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra Governing Board of Directors retired following completion of the maximum number of years permitted and were recognized for their service at the recent VSO Association Annual Meeting held at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont.

Symphony Space celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with a family concert featuring Mister G.

On Friday, October 25 (7:30 pm), Krzysztof Penderecki, "Poland's greatest living composer" (The Guardian) graces the stage of Symphony Space's Leonard Nimoy Thalia for a live event hosted byHelga Davis, contributing host on Q2 Music, WQXR's online station devoted to contemporary classical music.