Topic: Orchestral Music
AFP Global Edition | 2009-11-30 17:10:26
<div><p>French maestro Georges Pretre is to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic's legendary New Year's Concert on January 1, the orchestra announced Monday.</p><p>It will be the second time that the 84-year-old conductor has been invited to take the podium of the world's best-known and most sought-after ...
Las Vegas Sun | 2009-11-26 09:05:09
<div><p> B?la Bart—kÕs Concerto for Orchestra has become a familiar staple for orchestras since it premiered in Boston in 1944, but it received its first Las Vegas airing 65 years later, at UNLVÕs Artemus Ham Hall on Saturday night.</p><p>The Las Vegas Philharmonic presented a confident doubleheader ...
Reuters Life! Online Report | 2009-11-19 14:41:46
<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - If you want to hear one of the world's leading orchestras and taste a menu created by a renowned chef, the New York Philharmonic may have the answer.</p><p>Beginning early next year the orchestra will host musical suppers -- post-concert meals with menus by ...
AP News | 2009-11-12 01:08:12
<div id="subtitle">Conductor Slatkin to miss November concerts with Detroit Symphony following heart attack</div><div><p>Renowned conductor Leonard Slatkin will skip appearances this month with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra as he recovers from a heart attack.</p><p>Slatkin's manager R. Douglas Sheldon said ...
