For its 35th anniversary, Coquitlam??™s Place des Arts formed a new student string quartet and commissioned violinist and composer Cameron Wilson to write a piece for it to play.
This should be a victory lap for Islands. After all, their uniformly excellent debut resuscitated Paul Simon's Graceland as an indie pop touchstone back when Vampire Weekend were still playing in the quad.
When Rufus Wainwright was preparing to go to Berlin last summer to record his new album, the first he would produce himself, he envisioned it as ???a kind of pared down bare bones affair.???
This week our classical music reviewer listens to Nigel Kennedy performing Beethoven, Leroy Anderson and DOnizetti, and takes a look at a performance of Mozart's opera Don Giovanni on DVD.
Even though the school year at Westminster Choir College ended several weeks ago, performing arts on and off campus has continued full force after the student body has long gone.
A misfire on all cylinders. That's the view from here following the Albany Symphony's latest excursion into new music ?? the world premiere performances of Neil Rolnick's "Love Songs" Saturday night at the Colonial Theatre.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart never simulated a ticking clock, crafted numerous trumpet-solo showcases or penned what has become a perennial yuletide-pop standard. Yet, to Karen Lynne Deal, Leroy Anderson is Mozart??™s equal as a light, 20th century pops composer.
Al-Bustan, Lebanon's wintertime classical music festival, commenced on a melodic note Tuesday evening. Viennese conductor Karl Sollak led the Lebanese National Symphony Orchestra (LNSO) through a concert of light classics and show tunes ranging from Mozart to Rogers and Hammerstein.
"It'll be over in time to see the Super Bowl," Lou Kosma said of the Vermont Philharmonic's Sunday afternoon concert at the Barre Opera House. - By Jim Lowe Times Argus Staff
Whether on the cello, trombone or laptop, whether playing straight-up jazz, classical, or the many hybrid concoctions his work has already produced, Dana Leong seems to acknowledge no boundaries.
Mention the name of Lionel Hampton or Milt Jackson to any jazz historian and he or she will relate how influential these men were, both creatively and innovatively, in the progress of the art form. Their instrument, the vibraphone, became an integral part of a unique combo sound. But when the classical orchestra equivalent, the marimba, is discussed, even the most erudite record collectors would
Pyongyang, February 23 (KCNA) -- The New York Philharmonic will give its performance in Pyongyang on February 26, Juche 97 (2008). The philharmonic, founded in 1842, is one of the "three world-famous philharmonics" along with the Vienna Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic.
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