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Kent Kritle's 2012-2013 season marks his 30th year conducting in New York City. The landmark season includes Britten's War Requiem with the Oratorio Society of New York, Bach's Mass in B Minor with at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Mendelssohn's Elijah at the Manhattan School of Music, and travels across the U.S. for Carnegie Hall's National High School Choral Festival. See full details below.

Philharmonic 360, the New York Philharmonic and Park Avenue Armory's presentation of spatial music conceived by Music Director Alan Gilbert - featuring Karlheinz Stockhausen's epic composition Gruppen - will be Webcast for free by medici.tv (www.medici.TV) beginning July 6

Kent Kritle's 2012-2013 season marks his 30th year conducting in New York City. The landmark season includes Britten's War Requiem with the Oratorio Society of New York, Bach's Mass in B Minor with at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Mendelssohn's Elijah at the Manhattan School of Music, and travels across the U.S. for Carnegie Hall's National High School Choral Festival. See full details below.

Rebecca Allan, widely known for her vibrant and lyrical abstract paintings inspired by the watershed landscape, revisits her relationship to figurative work in Kindred: Portraits of Couples in the Arts, an upcoming solo exhibition of paintings and drawings, today, June 12 through June 30, 2012, at 2/20 Gallery in Chelsea. See below for a sneak preview of Allan's work!

Rebecca Allan, widely known for her vibrant and lyrical abstract paintings inspired by the watershed landscape, revisits her relationship to figurative work in Kindred: Portraits of Couples in the Arts, an upcoming solo exhibition of paintings and drawings, June 12-30, 2012, at 2/20 Gallery in Chelsea. See below for a sneak preview of Allan's work!

A440 Arts Group announces four major world premieres by American composer Augusta Read Thomas taking place in the upcoming 2012-2013 season, including commissions from the University of Notre Dame, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, China, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Praised for her extraordinary compositional versatility, Augusta Read Thomas has been praised as "a prodigious talent" (Russell Platt, The New Yorker) whose music "fairly explodes with an extroverted boldness of utterance audiences and musicians alike find challenging yet immediate. It's music that doesn't sound like anybody else's-music that insists you pay attention." (John von Rhein, The Chicago Tribune)

On Friday, June 22 at 7:30pm, guitarist Jason Vieaux will perform at Mannes College The New School For Music (150 West 85th Street) as part of the 12thAnnual New York Guitar Seminar and on Sunday, June 24 at 4:30pm, after the success of last summer's recital, he will return to the Caramoor International Music Festival (149 Girdle Ridge Road).

Rebecca Allan revisits her relationship to figurative work in Kindred: Portraits of Couples in the Arts, an upcoming solo exhibition of paintings and drawings, June 12-30, 2012, at 2/20 Gallery in Chelsea.

The Metropolitan Opera's 2012 Beverly Sills Artist Angela Meade starred in the company's recent production of Ernani. In May, the soprano tackles another Verdi heroine, making her Deutsche Oper Berlin debut as Lucrezia in two concert performances of I due Foscari. More high-profile firsts follow in August when Meade makes a trio of major U.S. music festival debuts, headlining "A Night at the Opera" with the Cleveland Orchestra at the Blossom Music Festival; "Italian Opera Night" with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Yannick Nezet-Seguin at Saratoga, and Mahler's "Symphony of a Thousand" with Robert Spano in Aspen. In June - as a preview of next season's debut with Washington National Opera - she portrays the title role of Bellini's Norma in concert at Oregon's Astoria Music Festival, and in July she sings Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore at the Festival Castell de Peralada in Spain.

Subscriptions are now on sale for the Columbus Symphony's 2012-13 Masterworks and Pops seasons. Masterworks will continue to present eight concerts at the Ohio Theatre and four concerts at the Southern Theatre. All Pops concerts will remain at the Ohio Theatre.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today named mezzo-soprano J'nai Bridges the recipient of the 2012 Marian Anderson Award, a biennial award of $15,000 given to an American singer in mid-career.

On Friday, February 24, 2012 at 7:30pm, guitarist Jason Vieaux will perform as part of The Legendary Salon, presented by The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) at Alice Tully Hall (65th Street and Broadway, NYC).