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The seventh release from the Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic 2012-13 Season digital recording series is now available for download from iTunes and other major online music providers.

Birds of Paradise, Greek mythology, and a piece Mozart called 'the best work I have ever written,' all are featured in Opening Night of the Cooperstown Summer Music Festival on July 7 at 7:30 pm at the Otesaga Hotel, 60 Lake Street in Cooperstown, NY.

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On June 22, music lovers can hear another free concert by the 100-year-old Houston Symphony at Miller Outdoor Theatre as part of their ExxonMobil Summer Symphony Nights series at Miller Outdoor Theatre.

Veteran Canadian broadcaster and writer Eric Friesen has been elected Chairman of the Honens International Piano Competition Foundation's Board of Directors.

Hartford Chorale will present AN INSTRUMENT OF PEACE, Music in Response to Violence & Injustice, with Colin Britt conducting and featuring instrumentalists and vocal soloists from the Hartt School.

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As part of the traveling exhibition New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music, the Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet will perform a free concert in Nashville, GA, on Friday, June 21, 2013, at 6:30 p.

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City-Scapes showcases music influenced by the history, culture and mythology of the places we call home, including works by Duke Ellington, Johann Strauss, Jennifer Higdon and Michael Daugherty.

Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) has announced the Brisbane exclusive and Australian debut performance by internationally acclaimed Ukrainian-born classical pianist Valentina Lisitsa tonight 8 June 2013.

On June 21, the Houston Symphony will celebrate its 100th birthday on the anniversary of its first public concert by inviting all of Houston to a free Centennial 100th Birthday Concert at Miller Outdoor Theatre.

Located on the shores of Lake Michigan and the Green Bay waters is one of the most beautiful communities in the Midwest - Door County, Wisconsin.

'Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy' will return to Atlanta tonight, June 7-8, 2013, at 8:00 p.

Music Director Jacques Lacombe and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra present Stravinsky's groundbreaking, riot-inducing The Rite of Spring on its 2012-13 classical season finale program, tonight, June 7-9 in Newark and Morristown.

Michigan Philharmonic Presents 2013 2014 Season

Aaron Copland once characterized 'The Rite of Spring' as the foremost orchestral achievement of the 20th century, and The New York Times proclaimed the significance of the work to be 'to the 20th century as Beethoven's Ninth is to the 19th.

Music Director Alan Gilbert will lead a program that highlights both The Marie-Josee Kravis Composer-in-Residence Christopher Rouse and The Mary and James G.

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Alleluia, with soprano Julia Lezhneva, was released on Decca on June 4, 2013.

Performing Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A major, 28-year old Israeli clarinetist Moran Katz won the 38th annual Houston Symphony League's Ima Hogg Competition on Saturday, June 1 at Rice University's Stude Concert Hall.

After an extensive international search, The Little Orchestra Society is excited to announce the appointment of James Judd as its new Music Director, effective June 1st.

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) welcomes five-time Academy Award-winning composer John Williams will conduct the BSO in a special benefit concert tonight, June 4 at 8 p.

Tricia Park, violinist and Conor Hanick, pianist will perform in recital at the Coralville Performing Arts Center tonight, June 4, 2013 at 7:30PM.

Rush Hour Concerts presents its 14th annual Summer Concert Series featuring free concerts of 'great music for busy lives' at River North's historic St.