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    May 15, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  1. Harris Theater announces 2013-14 season

    Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and his New World Symphony, violinist Gidon Kremer and J.S. Bach’s complete “Brandenburg” Concertos highlight the 10th season of events at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park.
    Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and his New World Symphony, violinist Gidon Kremer and J.S. Bach’s complete “Brandenburg” Concertos highlight the 10th season of events at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park. The...

    Tags: Dance, Savion Glover, Music Industry, Lincoln Center, New York City

    2. Mar 31, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Giving chamber music a spotlight in an intimate setting

    It was a balmy late-autumn Sunday in L.A.'s historic West Adams district, during what Henry James would've called "the perfect middle" of the afternoon.
    It was a balmy late-autumn Sunday in L.A.'s historic West Adams district, during what Henry James would've called "the perfect middle" of the afternoon. Nattily dressed visitors strolled through a hedge-rowed Italianate garden bathed in ocher light....

    Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Concerts, England, Music Industry, Human Interest

    3. Jan 25, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  3. Hamburg Ballet brings 'Nijinsky' home

    Choreographers often take opening-night bows, always a special moment, a chance for audience and artist to commune and revel in a bit of star-studded bonhomie.
    Choreographers often take opening-night bows, always a special moment, a chance for audience and artist to commune and revel in a bit of star-studded bonhomie. But it will be unusually thrilling when John Neumeier takes the stage after the Hamburg...

    Tags: World War I (1914-1918), Dance, Museum of Modern Art, Rahm Emanuel, Music Industry

    4. Dec 7, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  4. Vasily Petrenko proves he's the real deal in debut with CSO

    The Chicago Symphony Orchestra does a thorough job bringing to local attention gifted young conductors who are creating a stir in the podium world. The latest to make his debut on the subscription series is Vasily Petrenko, the 36-year-old chief conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and soon-to-be chief conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra.
    The Chicago Symphony Orchestra does a thorough job bringing to local attention gifted young conductors who are creating a stir in the podium world. The latest to make his debut on the subscription series is Vasily Petrenko, the 36-year-old chief conductor...

    Tags: Christianity, Religious Events, Religion and Belief, Concerts, Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    5. Apr 7, 2012 |Story| AM News

  5. MUSIC FROM DOWN UNDER: Soprano to perform with chamber orchestra at Norton Center

    On Friday, Centre College’s Norton Center for the Arts will hosts the Australian Chamber Orchestra and soprano Dawn Upshaw for a concert of classic chamber works and arrangements, and a new work written specifically for the award-winning soprano and chamber orchestra from Down Under.  
    On Friday, Centre College’s Norton Center for the Arts will hosts the Australian Chamber Orchestra and soprano Dawn Upshaw for a concert of classic chamber works and arrangements, and a new work written specifically for the award-winning soprano and...

    Tags: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Carnegie Hall, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Music Industry, Lincoln Center

    6. Dec 1, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  6. Q+LA Esa-Pekka Salonen

    LA Times Magazine
    The L.A. Phil conductor laureate returns home with a newly unearthed Shostakovich opera....
    7. Sep 2, 2011 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  7. When the music stops, the missions begin

    PARIS -- You can't have music without rests, and musicians without rests don't sound so great either, so after six straight nights of concerts, the members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra finally got a day off to set out on various quests.
    PARIS -- You can't have music without rests, and musicians without rests don't sound so great either, so after six straight nights of concerts, the members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra finally got a day off to set out on various quests. The last...

    Tags: Riccardo Muti, Germany, Festive Events, Defense, Companies and Corporations

    8. Nov 14, 2011 | Zap2It

  8. History’s “Engineering Evil” examines Holocaust artifacts and uneasy truths

    Channel Guide Magazine
    By Karl J. Paloucek Follow @ChannelGuideK The composer Dmitri Shostakovich used to dedicate his works to the victims of fascism and war because, as he noted, it wasn't possible in his lifetime to write an individually dedicated piece for each of the dead....
    9. Jul 15, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  9. Dance review: American Ballet Theatre dances 'The Bright Stream' at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

    Culture Monster
    Chris Pasles reviews American Ballet Theatre's Los Angeles premiere of Alexei Ratmansky's "The Bright Stream" at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion...
    10. Jan 30, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. At last, Peter Sellars will play at the Met

    Watching Peter Sellars rehearse is to observe a man possessed. Last week at the Metropolitan Opera House, L.A.'s reknowned theater director was fine-tuning &quot;Nixon in China," which opens Wednesday. The new production of the John Adams opera, about the pre-Watergate president's historic meeting with Chairman Mao Zedong in 1972, will mark, at long last, Sellars' debut at the Met. It will be <a href="http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/broadcast/hd_events_next.aspx">broadcast live</a> in movie theaters worldwide Feb. 12.
    Watching Peter Sellars rehearse is to observe a man possessed. Last week at the Metropolitan Opera House, L.A.'s reknowned theater director was fine-tuning "Nixon in China," which opens Wednesday. The new production of the John Adams opera, about the pre-...

    Tags: Washington (U.S. state), Festive Events, Opera (genre), John Adams, Human Interest

    11. May 16, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  11. Operetta review: 'Moscow, Cherry Town' by Long Beach Opera

    Culture Monster
    Charles McNulty reviews "Moscow, Cherry Town," Dimitri Shostakovich's only operetta, at Center Theater in Long Beach....
    12. Jan 22, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  12. Russian ballet imports a Spanish dancemaker

    Culture Monster
    Explaining his choice of celebrated choreographer Nacho Duato to lead St. Petersburg's Mikhailovsky Theater, arts patron Vladimir Kekhman complained that “already two generations of Russian dancers practically don’t know what a choreographer is who is...
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