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Dallas Chamber Symphony has announced its 2021-22 season lineup. The season kicks off on Tuesday, October 19 with Schumann 4 at Moody Performance Hall.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Andris Nelsons will mark the 90th birthday of distinguished Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina with performances of her 2003 work The Light of the End, October 21-23.

Dr. Peter Simon, Michael and Sonja Koerner President & CEO of The Royal Conservatory of Music, Mervon Mehta, Executive Director of Performing Arts, and James Anagnoson, Dean of The Glenn Gould School, today revealed details of the diverse concerts that will make up the 13th concert season at The Royal Conservatory of Music.

As Carnegie Hall prepares to kick off its much-anticipated 2021–2022 season, the Hall today announced new concert offerings that have been added to its schedule. These events are part of the Hall’s 2021–2022 season line-up that includes more than 100 performances presented on the Hall’s three stages and across New York City.

From this Friday, August 20 through October 1, Carnegie Hall will continue to offer weekly free full-length historic concert streams via carnegiehall.org, featuring legendary classical musicians in inspirational performances from some of the finest concert halls around the world. T

Whether it be a live or recorded performance, a classical, contemporary, musical theatre or spiritual song, British/Italian soprano Carly Paoli, certainly knows how to deliver and 24 September 2021 will see the release of a brand-new album,  Carly Paoli & Friends on the Abiah label. 

The Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) presents the fifth and final installment of this season's online Buskaid – A Musical Miracle series showcasing South Africa's renowned Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble. The Fabulous Finale is available on demand Friday, May 28 - Sunday, May 30.

Minnesota Orchestra and Music Director Osmo Vänskä will perform two concerts on Friday, May 14 and Friday, May 28 that have been programmed in response to the turbulence in Minneapolis and the world over the past year, particularly with regard to issues of racial equity and police violence against Black Americans. Both concerts will be televised live on Twin Cities PBS (TPT); broadcast live on YourClassical Minnesota Public Radio; and streamed live online for free at minnesotaorchestra.org at 8:00 p.m. CT.

From April 16-30, 2021, Carnegie Hall will present Voices of Hope, an online festival that examines the resilience of artists, exploring works that they felt compelled to create despite—and often because of—appalling circumstances and human tragedy.

As part of the Chatswood Cultural Program, concert goers will be uplifted by the rhythmic richness of the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra when - for the first time - it joins forces with powerhouse aerialists from physical theatre makers Legs On The Wall for the thrilling Next Chapters concert on Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 May at the North Shore's leading cultural hub, The Concourse, Chatswood.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra brings its first-ever all-online season—with near weekly concert streams distributed through its new streaming platform BSO NOW, November 2020-April 2021—to an end with four programs led by BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons, released each Thursday at noon, March 25–April 29, at www.bso.org/now.

Stage Russia HD and Pushkin House have announced that they will be presenting the Vakhtangov Theatre's award winning production of Leo Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina' online this weekend with a follow up Q & A with director Anželika Cholina and actress Olga Lerman.

The Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) continues its long-standing partnership with WWFM – The Classical Network (89.1FM) with a special PSO Festival of Music consisting of curated performances from the PSO archives, and broadcast over three successive Fridays, November 6, 13, and 20, at 8pm.

FEAST: a ballet merges visual art, dance, and film to explore the disturbing history of human consumption in an ornate, layered performance. It will premiere online on November 27, 2020, at 7:00 p.m. and will be available for streaming for 48 hours.   

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra today announces its 2021 Season a?" a celebration of Australian artists  as 19 of the nation's internationally-renowned musicians join Australia's premier Orchestra.  

Star cellist Pablo Ferrández makes his highly anticipated Princeton returna?"virtuallya?"as part of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO)'s Sunday, October 18 online concert broadcast at 4pm with a performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suite No. 1.

The New School's Mannes College of Music has announced the Schneider Concerts ONLINE | 2020-21 Season - we have been working for the past few months to develop a flexible model that will allow us to continue to provide outstanding, emerging chamber artists with performance opportunities and offer New York audiences introductions to chamber music.

Three Boston Symphony Orchestra violists-Mary Ferrillo, Daniel Getz, and Steven Laraia-along with BSO percussionist Kyle Brightwell and guest pianist Brett Hodgdon perform 20th-century masterworks for this week's Encore BSO Recitals program available starting starting at noon on Thursday, September 24, through October 24.

The Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) is introducing a new fall series, Virtual Concerts: Your Orchestra, Your Home, offering the opportunity to hear works rarely performed in the concert hall. The series replaces the orchestra's original fall subscription concerts.

The Tanglewood 2020 Online Festival is being offered in response to continuing concerns over the spread of COVID-19 and official crowd restriction policies that have necessitated the cancellation of the festival's live performance series.