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Mary Kathryn VanOsdale, the Nashville Symphony's concertmaster, will step down at the end of the 2009-10 season, the symphony announced today. Full Article at The Tennessean
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Pittsburgh Pops conductor Marvin Hamlisch has not let his symphony gigs stop his composing, and it has paid off with a nomination for a Golden Globe for his score for "The Informant." Full Article at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Cellist Yo-Yo Ma will be in charge of outreach programs with musicians and especially with children in Chicago. Full Article at CBC News
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"If it meets [its $1.77 million fund-raising] goal, the symphony expects to get $900,000 from the Arts & Science Council, which had threatened to drastically cut the symphony's annual grant because of questions about viability." Full Article at ArtsJournal
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An Oscar winner for best foreign-language film, this unpretentious minor key drama stars Masahiro Motoki (Shall We Dance?) as Daigo, a cellist with a struggling symphony orchestra in Tokyo which disbands amid the economic downturn. Full Article at Edinburgh Daily News
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The Redlands Symphony Association has appointed its interim executive director to the position permanently. Paul V. Ideker, of Palm Springs, began working with the organization earlier this year. Full Article at Southern CA Press-Enterprise
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Those exhibits brought a whole generation of Soviets into contact with the West. They were one of the best investments we made. And the Soviet authorities would probably agree with that. Full Article at MountainRunner
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A transatlantic team of scientists have discovered a secondary sensory system, independent of the well-understood nervous system, hidden in the skin. These may be at the root of inexplicable chronic pain syndromes like fibromyalgia. Full Article at Boing Boing
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P rince George's struggling symphony orchestra shouldn't even exist. It has a mammoth $250,000 deficit. It will lose another $95,000 when the B.C. government slices its arts budget. Full Article at Globe and Mail
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In the DVD " The Elegant Universe," "host Brian Greene, a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University," describes string theory as an " idea that the fundamental ingredients of nature are inconceivably tiny strands of energy, whose... Full Article at Associated Content
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Chamber orchestras have a curious tendency of expanding their forces for special occasions, a move that can endanger the streamlined balance and precision that differentiates a good chamber ensemble from a symphony orchestra in the first place. Full Article at The Guardian Music
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Now that the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra has resolved its contract dispute with musicians, it faces a new uncertainty. Eric Meyer has resigned as president and CEO. Full Article at New Mexico Business Weekly
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Back from the dead … Berlin Opera's production of Phaedra, 2007. Full Article at The Guardian Music
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Joanie Madden, founding member of the traditional Irish singing group Cherish the Ladies, is chockablock full of folksy colloquialisms. Full Article at Tampa Bay Online
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I whole-heartedly empathize with Ulysses, intimately identify with the enormity of his pain as he struggled to turn a deaf ear to the tempting songs of the sirens. This, believe it or not, is my daily struggle. Full Article at Huffington Post
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A large, and clearly happy, audience turned out to hear tenor Andrea Bocelli on Sunday night at the Honda Center in Anaheim. The cheering started when the lights went down. Another Italian, Julius Caesar, at least had to conquer Gaul first. Full Article at The Orange County Register
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Posted 4:11 p.m. Mon. , 12.14.09 - Some performers spend a lifetime trying to divine what audiences want. For Marc Gordon, it took only one night and a brief experiment. Full Article at St. Louis Beacon
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{Song #43 « Song #44 » T•of•C} § ≡ One of an ongoing series of posts in which I pick, in my not-so-humble opinion, the best songs of the second millennium. Feel free to offer constructive dissenting opinions; preferably set to music. Full Article at Remembrance in Spacetime
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In the struggle to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, researchers think they have found a new weapon that poses a triple-threat to dangerous CO2 build-up: Algae. Full Article at Deutsche Welle
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CINCINNATI -- A woman has donated $85 million to maintain Cincinnati's symphony orchestra and support its continued collaboration with the city's opera and ballet companies. Full Article at Columbus Dispatch
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Spanish conductor Pedro Halffter conducts the Royal Sevilla Symphony Orchestra as the cast performs during a rehearsal of "Tristan und Isolde" at the Maestranza theatre in central Seville May 19, 2009. The show will run May 22, 25, 28 and 31.
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Spanish conductor Pedro Halffter (R) conducts the Royal Sevilla Symphony Orchestra as the cast performs during a rehearsal of "Tristan und Isolde" at the Maestranza theatre in central Seville May 19, 2009. The show will run May 22, 25, 28 and 31.
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A member of Estonia's Urban Symphony performs during the Eurovision Song Contest final in Moscow May 16, 2009.
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A member of Estonia's Urban Symphony performs during the dress rehearsal for the Eurovision Song Contest final in Moscow May 16, 2009.
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Estonia's Urban Symphony performs during the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest final rehearsal at the Olympic Stadium in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, May 16, 2009.
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Urban Symphony's singer and violinist Sandra Nurmsalu of Estonia performs during a rehearsal for the Eurovision Song Contest final in Moscow May 15, 2009.
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Estonia's singer and violinist Sandra Nurmsalu of Urban Symphony performs during the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow May 14, 2009.
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Estonia's entry into the 2009 Eurovision song contest Urban Symphony rehearses in Moscow on May 13, 2009. The grand final of the 54th edition of the Eurovision song contest will take place on May 16.
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In this photo provided by the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, the orchestra performs The Genesis Suite in May 2008, as an image created by glass artist Dale Chihuly is projected behind the orchestra.
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In this photo provided by the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, glass artist Dale Chihuly, left, stands with SSO Music Director Gerard Schwarz, right, next to Chihuly's model set design for Seattle Symphony's May-June 2007 production of Bela Bartok's opera Bluebeard's Castle.
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The YouTube Symphony Orchestra, directed by Michael Tilson Thomas (L), performs as images of the musicians are projected onto a wall of Carnegie Hall April 15, 2009 in New York. It is the first orchestra to be selected entirely through auditions on-line.
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The YouTube Symphony Orchestra performs "Ride of the Valkyries" from "Die Walkure" by Richard Wagner as images are projected onto the ceiling and walls of Carnegie Hall April 15, 2009 in New York. It is the first orchestra to be selected entirely through auditions on-line.
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In this photo released by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Mariss Jansons conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra during a performance at New York's Carnegie Hall, Saturday, March 14, 2009, of Beethoven's Ninth - the "Ode to Joy" that in 1989 was played by this sa...
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In this photo released by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Mariss Jansons conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra during a performance at New York's Carnegie Hall, Friday, March 13, 2009.
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Spanish conductor Pedro Halffter (R) conducts the Royal Sevilla Symphony Orchestra as the cast performs during a rehearsal of "Tristan und Isolde" at the Maestranza theatre in central Seville May 19, 2009. The show will run May 22, 25, 28 and 31.
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I think the best crossovers add to the symphony that is the Marvel Universe. Thor casts a long shadow. His choices have consequences for a number of characters that are sort of in his gravity well. So for the Siege arc, I'm looking at Broxton and the area around it. I'm interested in the emotional arcs ...
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This gift is just an encore of all the wonderful things they've done for the city ... The consequences of the symphony being diminished were just unthinkable. There were tears among the orchestra members, who have made a sacrifice already. This doesn't cure their finances, but it enhances their ability ...
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Surely it is possible for a classical composer or performer to attain celebrity without surrendering to celebrity culture. Such a canny virtuoso might even persuade a terminally distracted Balloon Boy nation to pay attention to a forty-five-minute symphony. Right now, all eyes are trained on the twenty-...
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The quiet silence defines our misery, The riot inside keeps trying to visit me, No matter how hard we try, there's too much history, Too many bad notes playing in our symphony..
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The symphony of frogs, great blue herons along with great white egrets swooping to the sounds of the Pacific Ocean brings a healing setting to all
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Caribbean classic - Jamaica's unique symphony orchestra showcases talent
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As the title indicates ... this work is intended as opening of a symphony orchestra concert, and it is not associated with any dramatic work.
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These seasoned veterans who are playing in symphonies said this is music we don't get to play, ever ... It's terrific we have a world-class symphony in Nashville. It's also terrific we have a world-class chamber ensemble right here in Clarksville.
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I live 150 yards from where Mozart wrote the symphony
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Few tears will be shed over the demise of the East German army, but what about East Germany’s 80 symphony orchestras, bound to lose some subsidies?
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There's three different very interesting and productive theatres, there's a symphony, there are all kinds of arts activities that I really didn't know anything about
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The chairman of the Honolulu Symphony's board of directors [said] that as of last Friday, the symphony did not have enough money to make its payroll. He refused to confirm whether the orchestra will file for bankruptcy or postpone part of its season. The symphony has already put off two concerts this we...
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The symphony, the oldest American orchestra west of the Rocky Mountains, has struggled in recent years to pay its musicians. Two months ago it received a $1.8 million cash infusion to cover operating expenses for the upcoming season.
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This is the first time in many years that a piano series has been presented in St. Louis ... While St. Louis has plenty of symphony music and opera, solo recitals of high caliber are now few and far between.
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Houston is a five-man symphony.
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The NBA was a symphony, it was scripted; the ABA was jazz.
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A contemporary of Work and Dawson, William Grant Still based his first symphony, the Afro-American Symphony (1930), on the blues and his experience as a jazz arranger.
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There are more available tonal color combinations in a wind ensemble than in symphony orchestra ... While there are some variations between a violin and a cello, a string is a string, whereas, in a wind ensemble, you are blending instruments of completely different timbres — euphonium and clarinets, for...
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Now that kid might grow up to play symphony or be the next LeBron James
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Twitter isn't writing, it's signaling...It could be writing. In fact, I thought of doing something like John Cage's symphony that will be played over 100 years. You could put a word a day on to the 'twit', or 'tweet'?
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Half the shows are solo piano and the other half are symphony orchestra shows
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Marilyn Snider reminds me of a symphony conductor
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