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The Cleveland Orchestra and the Cleveland Museum of Art collaborate in the presentation of California Masterworks, two intimate Cleveland Orchestra concerts at the museum featuring works by groundbreaking composers inextricably associated with California.

In this week's featured regional orchestra of the week, we're thrilled to spotlight The Michigan Philharmonic under the direction of Music Director and Conductor Nan Washburn!

Jean-Marie and the Columbus Symphony conclude the 2013-14 Masterworks season with the ultra-colorful, dream-like landscapes of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique.

One of the great things about being a musician is the opportunity one gets to perform in various places around the world and the chance one gets to meet and interact with people from different places.

On March 24, Philadelphia Orchestra principal tubist Carol Jantsch and the Grammy-nominated Temple University Symphony Orchestra presented the world premiere of Daugherty's new concerto to a receptive and enthusiastic audience

The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra has announced that BPYO Artistic Advisor Mark Churchill will be honored as Distinguished Citizen Artist by the Conservatory Lab Charter School at their Spring Fling on Sunday, April 7 at 2pm at the Strand Theatre in Dorchester.

Approaching his final month as Music Director of the Houston Symphony, Hans Graf will conduct a concert featuring several of Debussy and Mendelssohn's must popular works.

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's Talent Development Program, which supports the musical development of young African-American and Latino students, will hold its annual Spring Recitals on Sunday, April 21, 2013, at 4:00 p.

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ present the 16th annual benefit concert in support of the United Jewish Appeal of MetroWest NJ (UJA) on Sunday, April 21, at 3 pm, at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark.

Violinist Ray Chen will perform a recital at Mayo Performing Arts Center on Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 8 pm.

The Boston Landmarks Orchestra (LO) announces its 2013 summer season at the DCR's historic Hatch Shell on Boston's Esplanade along the Charles River, and additional concerts and educational activities in Boston's neighborhoods.

Romantic and riveting: Pacific Symphony uncovers the intricate mastery of Johannes Brahms' chamber music during 'The Brilliance of Brahms,' the last Cafe Ludwig concert this season.

Noted pianist Emanuel Ax delighted the audience at Leffler Performance Center in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania with his performance of the 'Pathetique' and other works

In this week's featured regional orchestra of the week, we're thrilled to spotlight The Handel & Haydn Society operating in Boston under the leadership of Artistic Director Harry Christophers.

Chicago Sinfonietta welcomes oud virtuoso Simon Shaheen to celebrate Arab and African-American culture with music in 'Political Awakenings' on Friday, April 19, Harris Theater, Chicago and Saturday, April 20, Wentz Concert Hall, Naperville.

2013 marks the 30th anniversary of The Shanghai Quartet.

The highly anticipated world premiere of Music in Circles III, a new piece by Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) Composer-in-Residence Andrew Norman, is the centerpiece of LACO's 'Concertos: Handel & Mozart' orchestral concert on Saturday, April 20, 2013, 8 pm, at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, and

The All-Star Orchestra, comprised of top players from major orchestras in the United States, and led by Music Director Gerard Schwarz, has signed an agreement with WNET, the parent company of THIRTEEN – in partnership with American Public Television – for national distribution of the orchestra's

Brahms two piano concertos, written some twenty years apart (as their opus numbers 15 and 83 display) were not referred to as concertos at all at the time of their premiers but rather as 'symphonies with piano obligato,' and it's easy to see why.

The Cleveland Orchestra presents its inaugural neighborhood residency in Northeast Ohio from May 11 through 17, 2013, in Cleveland's Gordon Square Arts District.

Described as having the dazzling technique and 'wild passion' of Vladimir Horowitz, the footwork of Fred Astaire and the glam sensibility of David Bowie, renegade organist Cameron Carpenter will make his Houston debut Wednesday, April 10, at 8 p.

A Concert for Peace and Reconciliation commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, featuring both Jewish and Polish Music, will take place on Saturday, April 6, at KAM Isaiah Israel Congregation at 1100 East Hyde Park Boulevard on the south side of Chicago.

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra presents an all-Gershwin NJSO POPS program in New Brunswick and Newark, April 19-20.

Carol Jantsch, principal tubist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, reflects on her instrument and Michael Daugherty's composing prior to the world premiere of Daugherty's 'Reflections On the Mississippi for Tuba and Orchestra'

The Michigan Philharmonic will perform a concert that unites nature & music at 2pm Sunday April 21, 2013 at the First United Methodist Church of Plymouth.