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Herbie Hancock will give a concert at the Royal Paragon Hall of Siam Paragon tomorrow.

What is it with young white women and microphones? When Tamla Motown dominated the rock-soul charts in the 1960s, most of its young singers were male .

"Curioser and Curioser" and other pen-and-ink drawings by Gorgeous Gwen Kirk will be at Art & Soul Gallery during the Third Friday art walk.

A writing brush washer to be auctioned by Council An ink-wash painting signed by eight scholars from the Yuan Dynasty is expected to set an auction record for ancient Chinese painting in the upcoming auction season.

The UK Sunday will publish lists of the richest men in women in UK music this week, but have offered a sneak preview.

Students of Cindy Kessler performed at Sterling House in Stuart. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Keiser University golf students who have completed a two-year associate of science degree in Golf Management.

In Robert Carsen’s 2004 production of La traviata for Teatro La Fenice, the Prelude is staged.  During this haunting music, we see Violetta lounging on a huge bed while more than a dozen men pay her for her services with wads of oversized dollar bills.  By the time Act One begins, the bed is virtually covered [...]

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Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers, Grand Rapids Symphony close Classical Season with ... The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com Timelessness gives classical music much of its charm. The Grand Rapids Symphony closes its 2010-11 Classical Series this weekend with music spanning more than 300 years. Soloist Anne Akiko Meyers was on stage with her 17th century Stradivarius violin, ...

The Juilliard Orchestra performs Mahler's Ninth Symphony in New York City World Socialist Web Site A recent performance of Gustav Mahler's Ninth Symphony, his last completed work in that form, highlighted the role of the Juilliard School in New York City's classical music scene. The Juilliard Orchestra, the most advanced of several ... and more »

Beyond classical Ottawa Citizen Pianist Menahem Pressler, British soprano Emma Kirkby, Quebec City orchestra Les Violons du Roy, a music crawl at the National Gallery of Canada and some classical music clowns whose YouTube videos ... and more »

Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy presents Kevin Bao Piano Recital on Sunday, May 22 at 3pm at Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy High School's Lindner Theater,11525 Snider Road, Cincinnati, OH 45249.

Jay Harvey joined the staff of The Indianapolis Star in 1986, after 15 years on the staff of the Flint Journal in Michigan.

Banana peels are good for something other than pratfalls. Food scraps such as eggshells, melon rinds and banana peels can help nourish plants.

Donald A. McKay Sept. 23, 1931 - May 1, 2011 Lifelong Tuolumne County resident Donald A. McKay died Sunday at a family friend's home in Sonora.

Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens will celebrate National Public Gardens Day by providing free admission to all visitors.

Mark Kanny is the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's classical music critic and can be reached at 412-320-7877 or via e-mail. Heinz Hall didn't look or sound like itself Friday night when Leonard Slatkin led the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in the first of two concerts devoted to Twisted Storybook Favorites.

With only a handful of local performances to its name, Mozart's superb but neglected Idomeneo commands attention in most any shape and form.

At the 20th annual Race for the Cure in 2010, Adrienne Magness of Langhorne hugged fellow breast-cancer survivor Gloria Coccoli, of Springfield, Delaware County.

Michigan already knows it's behind the packin terms of education performance. And a recent report from the Alliance for Excellent Education, an education advocacy group in Washington, D.C.,confirms the negative effects that stem from inadequate secondary instruction.Seventy percent of Michigan students who enter community college must take ...

The large and enthusiastic audience filling Slidell's Heritage Park in picture-perfect weather April 30 was most certainly in agreement: That was "Some Enchanted Evening." Scott Threlkeld / The Times-Picayune Thousands gathered April 30 for a free concert by the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra presented as part of the 'Some Enchanted Evening' ...

I'm relatively satisifed with my playlist of the best of this week's listening. It doesn't include two items that were completely puzzling (John Cage/Sun Ra and Terry Riley & Son) but I like what I picked, even if it has...

Music and Beyond Festival definitely beyond classical Ottawa Citizen OTTAWA — Pianist Menahem Pressler, British soprano Emma Kirkby, Quebec City orchestra Les Violons du Roy, a music crawl at the National Gallery of Canada and some classical music clowns whose YouTube videos have been seen by millions are among ... and more »

Just in time for Mother's Day, the Gates of Grove sanctuary at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons will host a free Tchaikovsky concert on Sunday at 4 p.m. The performance will feature violinists Tessa Lark and Eric Silberger and cellist Jacqueline Choi, alumni of the Perlman Music Program who have been selected to compete in the internationally ...

Willy Porter relishes the challenge of writing songs and playing guitar. Not a bad job if you can get it, yet, you rarely become a winner right way.

"My rhymes age like wine as I get older." The latest from the Beastie Boys is peppered with references to the trio's age and longevity in the game .

A displaced Californian composer writes about music made for the long while & the world around that music.

The premise of this blog is that it's everyone's right to have an opinion about classical music.

Most everyone has probably heard about the dust up over the location-tracking behavior on iOS devices since last June.

Music is the universal language by which a society communicates with itself and the rest of the world.

When Alan Rose, Westlake High School's choral director for the past 26 years, left California for Orlando last month with 65 students to participate in the Heritage Festivals and Festival Disney, his dream was to return with a golden Mickey from Festival Disney.

Friday, May 6, 2011 at 1:54 p.m. / Ken Jacques Nicki Elledge as Belle in "Beauty and the Beast" Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" San Diego Junior Theatre When: 7 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; through May 15.

The Deer Head Inn will feature saxophonist Virginia Mayhew with her quartet from 7 to 11 p.m. today during a CD release party for Mayhew's new CD, "Mary Lou Williams - The Next 100 Years." Performing with Mayhew on tenor saxophone are Ed Cherry on guitar, Cameron Brown on bass, Sylvia Cuenca on drums.

New Social Networking Site For Parents New Website Creates Interactive Parenting Community May 06, 2011 Social networking is the popular buzz word today, but more than that, it represents the valuable opportunity to gather like-minded people around a specific interest or concern.

May 5th 2005: This afternoon my stay with my friends is over. I am no longer welcome and have no place to go.

Kolkata, May 6: Sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and renowned painter Jogen Chowdhury were Friday conferred with lifetime achievement awards by luxury accessories maker Mont Blanc and Dakshinee, a premier music academy in Kolkata.

Carlton Fellows had a musical epiphany. The 57-year-old Cleveland man had a vision of putting a group of men together to sing in a chorus in a way unheard of in the Cleveland area.

San Francisco Ballet is closing the season out with an encore run of John Neumeier's fantasy-laden " The Little Mermaid ." Watching Wednesday's performance, my review from last year stands firm: this contemporary ballet is both mesmerizing and disturbing.

Regional Submitted by Teddie Sleight, EASTCONN, on 2011-05-05.   EASTCONN's Capitol Theater Arts Academy will present its annual Spring Dance Showcase, featuring young dancers from 13 area towns, on Saturday, May 21, at 7 p.m., and Sunday, May 22, at 2 p.m., at EASTCONN's Capitol Theater, 896 Main St., Willimantic.

Says: May 6th, 2011 at 4:15 pm Classical Music: A history according to YouTube Oh YEAH baby! That is solid gold.

I know, it's the least-surprising post title you'll see this year. But this cancellation is of all performances from now until mid-October, excepting the two upcoming Met performances of Die Walkuere. Here's the press release:

Following his doctors’ advice, James Levine is taking the summer off to rest and recuperate from his ongoing back condition. While he will conduct the remaining performances of Die Walküre at the Met (May 9 and 14 – a matinee performance that will be transmitted live in HD), he will not join the Met on its Japan tour this June or conduct the MET Orchestra’s Carnegie Hall concert on May 15. Fabio Luisi, the Met’s principal guest conductor, will replace him for these engagements, conducting Verdi’s Don Carlo and Puccini’s La Bohème in Japan, and the May 15 concert at Carnegie featuring soprano Natalie Dessay. 

Levine will return to the Met in the fall to conduct the new production of Don Giovanni, which opens October 13.

The Carnegie program will remain the same except that Richard Strauss’s Don Juan, Opus 20 will replace Debussy’s Images pour orchestre.

Maestro Luisi is currently conducting a run of Rigoletto at the Met and leads the first of three performances of Ariadne auf Naxos tomorrow.

• Matthew Guerrieri does the numbers on next year's repertory. The winner: that rarely-played master, Beethoven!
• Jeremy Eichler reports broadly on the season; Mark Volpe divulges that the search committee to replace James Levine has not even met. Indeed, it sounds as though next season was planned on the assumption that Levine would still be music director. There must have been plenty of scrambling to deal with that.

This is the end. James Levine has just canceled all engagements between now and October, except for the two remaining peformances of Die Walküre at the Met May 9 and 14.  Fabio Luisi will take over the Carnegie Hall concert with Natalie Dessay on May 16 and Levine’s duties on the Japan tour, conducting Don [...]

There’s going to be an album release party tonight at Le Poisson Rouge. Two groups on the New Amsterdam Records roster, NOW Ensemble and the Chiara String Quartet, are celebrating their respective releases. Chiara are presenting string quartets by Jefferson Friedman, along with remixes thereof by special guest electronica artists Matmos. Meanwhile, NOW Ensemble presents [...]

The German violinist Christian Tetzlaff gave master classes to prepare a group of young musicians for two evenings at Weill Recital Hall.