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Campus notes: Becker retires as LU orchestra conductor - Appleton Post Crescent

Campus notes: Becker retires as LU orchestra conductor
Appleton Post Crescent
Senior Daniel O'Connor, organ, the co-winner of the LSO 2011-12 Student Concerto Competition, will be the concert's guest artist. “The time has arrived in my life for my personal and professional journeys to head in a new direction,” said Becker, ...

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'Trumpets + Pipe Organ = Fireworks!' - Times-Standard

'Trumpets + Pipe Organ = Fireworks!'
Times-Standard
The work was written to show off the variety of sounds of different ranks of the pipe organ. Following that will be the famous and popular Double Concerto by Antonio Vivaldi, here performed by four trumpets and a pipe organ. Looking back in time a bit, ...

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Review: Kotzschmar Organ concert worth a couple of million - Press Herald

Review: Kotzschmar Organ concert worth a couple of million
Press Herald
... commissioned for the Wannamaker Organ in Philadelphia but not performed there until 2008, is more of a display piece than the Saint Saens. It is an eclectic work, with echoes of Elgar, and at times Richard Addinsell of "Warsaw Concerto" fame.

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Arts and entertainment calendar for May 24 - Lincolnwood Review

Arts and entertainment calendar for May 24
Lincolnwood Review
The program includes Jean-Fery Rebel's ballet, “Les Elemens,” Handel's Concerto Grosso Opus 3, No. 2, and Telemann's “Ouverture des nations anciens et modernes.” Cantate, conducted by Benjamin Rivera, presents a concert featuring American works from ...

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What's On - Music - May 17 onwards - ChesterChronicle.co.uk

What's On - Music - May 17 onwards
ChesterChronicle.co.uk
CHESTER: Philip Rushforth plays music by Rutter, Hesse, Callahan and Bölting, in his lunchtime organ recital at 1.10pm in Chester Cathedral. Admission £5.45, concessions £4.50. LIVERPOOL: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Ilyich ...

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Bittersweet 'Memory': Berg concerto explores the life and death of a teenager - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com


The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Bittersweet 'Memory': Berg concerto explores the life and death of a teenager
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
For the past two seasons, Shaham, 41, has devoted himself to the concertos of that decade — to thinking about how the music reflected its time and how it affects us today. He considers whether composers focused on the violin for its “weeping quality” ...

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Reviews of classical CDs - Times of Malta

Reviews of classical CDs
Times of Malta
63; Guitar Concerto No. 2; Fanfare for the New Atlantis. Javier Calderon, guitar, Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Stewart Robertson – Naxos 8.559336 (60 minutes). Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) was one of the most prolific American composers ...

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Brightmusic Chamber Ensemble in Oklahoma to celebrate the music of Bach and Brahms - NewsOK.com

Brightmusic Chamber Ensemble in Oklahoma to celebrate the music of Bach and Brahms
NewsOK.com
1 in G Major” and the “Passacaglia and Fugue for Organ in C Minor,” along with Brahms' “Sextet for Strings No. 2 in G Major.” The series continues at 4 pm May 27 with an all-Brahms program featuring the “Sonata No. 2 in E-flat Major” for clarinet and ...

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Dutoit conducts an entrancing Debussy - Philadelphia Inquirer

Dutoit conducts an entrancing Debussy
Philadelphia Inquirer
David Kim, concertmaster for 12 years, performed Saint-Saens' “Violin Concerto No. 3” Friday with the orchestra. CHRIS LEE When Wolfgang Sawallisch was winding up his Philadelphia Orchestra tenure, some of his concert programs became curiously modest.

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Go! Music & Dance calendar: May 18-24 - Times Herald-Record

Go! Music & Dance calendar: May 18-24
Times Herald-Record
Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie — Organ recital performed by members of the Central Hudson Valley Chapter American Guild of Organists, 20 Carroll St., Poughkeepsie, 7:30 pm May 18, by donation. Visit www.christchurchpok.org.

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