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University of Kentucky Symphony wows Chinese audiences with American music
Shanghai :: China | 1 day ago
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The University of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra returned to Lexington this week after a 14-day concert tour in China where its performances received warm receptions. Skip Gray, director of the UK school of music, called the trip "a huge success." "The
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Summer classical 2013: San Francisco Symphony celebrates Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring'
Santa Clara :: Cuba | 4 days ago
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The Bay Area's summer classical scene is busy and varied, as always...In the 1960s, Michael Tilson Thomas was mentored by two giants of 20th century music: Igor Stravinsky and Leonard Bernstein. In the coming weeks at Davies Symphony Hall, Tilson
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Saskatoon Symphony season ends on high note
Saskatoon :: Canada | 6 days ago
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The Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra ended its season with a few bangs on the weekend -- with the help of some bongoes, maracas, taxi horns and snapping fingers. It was fitting that a concert titled An American Salute should be filled with such a
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How Big Are Your Dreams?
New York City :: NY :: USA | 12 days ago
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London Street Art, May 2013 When President Obama recently dared graduates at Ohio State University to be better, to do better, to reject cynicism , he was inviting them to dream bigger, as well. Organizations that dream bigger than others, innovate
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NY's largest cemetery celebrates 175th anniversary
Niagara Falls :: NY :: USA | 13 days ago
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Decades before New York's Central Park was created, Green-Wood Cemetery's ponds, hills and winding paths provided not only a pastoral final resting place for the nation's elite but also a recreational spot for picnics and horse-drawn buggies. The
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CPO TO NAME LARRY RACHLEFF MUSIC DIRECTOR EMERITUS AT MAY 24TH CONCERT
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 15 days ago
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30 p.m., Larry Rachleff, Principal Conductor and Music Director of the Chicago Philharmonic, will raise his baton one last time when he conducts Bernstein and Schubert, the final symphonic concert of the 2012-2013 season at Pick-Staiger Hall in
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Four lucky Bee readers experience the Philharmonic
Reedley :: CA :: USA | 22 days ago
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tool goes here The first thing Barbara Nurmi notices in Maestro Theodore Kuchar's music room is the boxed set of 100 Leonard Bernstein CDs plopped on the floor next to the coffee table. This is no pristine, formal parlor meant only for entertaining
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'Candide' takes at Enlightenment Optimism
New York City :: NY :: USA | 23 days ago
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tool goes here Is that the stiff breeze of satire in the air? "Candide," the Fresno Grand Opera's final production of the 2012-13 season, isn't one of those hefty downers that make you feel at the end as if you've been hit by the truck of tragedy.
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Review: 'Sacred Service' rewards everyone present
Lake Sarasota :: FL :: USA | 26 days ago
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It must be said at the outset that the immensely challenging concert Musica Sacra Cantorum presented Sunday afternoon at St...Perfection in performance of this music is not often found, given the great difficulty of the compositions: Leonard
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'Trouble in Tahiti' review: Bravo Bernstein
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 26 days ago
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This Long before "Mad Men" there was "Trouble in Tahiti," Leonard Bernstein 's witty and haunting one-act opera about the alienation lurking beneath the sunny veneer of midcentury American suburbia. On Friday night, in a vivacious and beautifully
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