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'Stravinsky Re-invented: From Paris to Los Angeles,' the second and final weekend of the 24th annual Bard Music Festival in New York's Annandale-on-Hudson, follows Igor Stravinsky from Europe to post-war Hollywood, investigating his subsequent shift in style from neoclassicism to serialism.

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded $300,000 to a consortium of orchestras led by Pacific Symphony and Music Director Carl St.

The Cleveland Orchestra explores the music, times, and politics of two of western music's most profound and controversial composers in Fate and Freedom: Music of Beethoven and Shostakovich, a Festival presented in partnership with the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinema

In celebration of the 75th season, the Celebrity Series of Boston will partner with British artist Luke Jerram to bring his public piano installation, Play Me I'm Yours to Boston from Friday, September 27 to Monday, October 14, 2013.

The Canton Symphony Orchestra Board of Trustees welcomes three new members to their board – Dr.

Committed to welcoming more young people and families, The Cleveland Orchestra will significantly expand the “Under 18s Free” program in the 2013-14 season to include 46 concerts from September to May, an increase from 14 “Under 18s Free” concerts in 2012-13.

Music will fill the air, beanstalks will reach to the sky and attendees will live "happily ever after" when legendary, award-winning cellist Yo-Yo Ma joins Music Director Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to kick off the 2013-2014 season at a "Once Upon a Time" gala concert at 7:3

Los Angeles Philharmonic Music Director Gustavo Dudamel, in his fourth summer season at the Hollywood Bowl, celebrates the 200th anniversary of Verdi's birth with a concert performance of Aida on tonight, August 11, at 7:30 p.

Tonight, August 11, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Orchestra of St.

Gustavo Dudamel, fresh from starting a 19-day residency at the Salzburg Festival with open rehearsals, special events, symposia and performances of Mahler's Symphonies Nos.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic announces the following program changes for the 2013/14 season at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Dubbed a “cello goddess” by The New Yorker, virtuosic cellist Maya Beiser will perform at Bard College SummerScape's Spiegeltent tonight, August 9 at 8:30pm in a concert entitled The Music of Astor Piazolla and Beyond with special guest pianist Donal Fox.

The Sherman Chamber Ensemble continues its 2013 Summer Concert Series tonight, August 9th at St.

Longtime Pacific Symphony supporter Michael Kerr has been appointed chairman of the Symphony's board of directors—a role that began July 1.

The gifted pianist Cathy Krier, born in Luxembourg in 1985, presents an intensely compelling and beautifully played Janácek recital, featuring all of the Czech composer's piano works, with the exception of the etudes and folk song adaptations, on 2 CDs.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Music Director Gustavo Dudamel, in his fourth summer season at the Hollywood Bowl, celebrates the 200th anniversary of Verdi's birth with a concert performance of Aida on Sunday, August 11, at 7:30 p.

Step inside the mind of composer, Igor Stravinsky, as his musical choreographic work The Rite of Spring comes to life through the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra on opening night, Saturday, September 21, 8:00 p.

Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra is pleased to offer an enticing fall performance featuring a Brass Ensemble and Flute Duo in a special outdoor location on September 14.

Severance Hall, home of The Cleveland Orchestra, is seeking volunteer ushers, greeters, ticket takers, tour guides, and store clerks for the 2013-14 season.

The Board of Directors of the Delaware County Symphony are pleased to announce the appointment of Ms.

Soprano Ailyn Perez and tenor Stephen Costello - dubbed "America's fastest-rising husband-and-wife opera stars" by the Associated Press - pair to sing Verdi arias and duets with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra at the city's 76th free Stern Grove Festival on August 18.

WELL-STRUNG, The Singing String Quartet, plays a mash-up of Mozart's A Little Night Music (1st Movement) with Kelly Clarkson's Since You've Been Gone.

NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts is pleased to announce programming for its tenth season, 2013-14.

The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival, under the artistic direction of flutist Linda Chesis, celebrates its fifteenth anniversary season this summer with concerts by leading classical artists.

The final week of the tenth anniversary Deer Valley Music Festival includes three performances with the Utah Symphony in Park City, Utah.