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Polish Orchestra Plays Mozart In Protest

AP | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Chamber Opera, Mozart, Poland, Budget Cuts, Opera, Polish Opera Protest, Funding, Orchestra, Bogdan Zdrojewski, Warsaw Opera, Culture Minister, Requiem, Opera Budget Cuts, Arts News

WARSAW, Poland — A Polish opera house has performed Mozart's Requiem – a funeral piece – in front of the Culture Ministry in Warsaw ...

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The Awfulness of Classical Music Explained

Richard Dare | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Classical Music, Composers, Beethoven, Concerts, Brooklyn, Music, Arts, Concert, Art, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Culture News, New York, Orchestra, Etiquette, Classical Music Concerts, Classical, Culture News

At classical music concerts, there are a great many "clap here, not there" cloak-and-dagger protocols to abide by. if I could clap when clapping felt needed, laugh when it was funny, what would that be like?

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Pride & Prejudice: (What) Can Nonprofits Learn From the For-Profit World?

Richard Dare | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Arts, Nonprofits, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Entrepreneurship, Business Model, Art, Strategy, Brooklyn, Orchestra, New York, Impact, Business Plan, Culture News

Like everyone else in the business world, we nonprofits need money to operate, folks, and lots of it. Let's focus on some steps nonprofits might take to follow their siblings in the for-profit sector toward a brighter financial future.

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Should We Support Arts Organizations Or Musicians?

Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Arts Organizations, Local-Culture, Musicians, Orchestra, Arts Funding, Support the Arts, Culture News

A few weeks ago, David Beem made a bold statement to HuffPost readers. In a piece titled "Slash Your Local Orchestra," Beem, a former professional cel...

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Slash Your Local Orchestra

David Beem | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Classical Music, Philadelphia-Orchestra-Bankrupt, Orchestra, Practice, Yo-Yo Ma, Louisville Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Arts News

She can no longer sustain it on her own. Her portion of the burden is too large, or maybe she passes away, and the orchestra declares bankruptcy. Sounds too fatalistic? It's happening now. It's been happening for years. If you live near an orchestra, you know. And if you don't -- who cares?

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There Is Something About El Sistema

John M. Eger | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Public Schools, Orchestra, Parenting, Global Poverty, Dropout Epidemic, Music, Mentoring, Music Education, Arts News

El Sistema, which doesn't translate well, means simply "the system," a system for giving young, usually poor kids, a chance on living. At first glance it's about music. Getting young people to play an instrument, then joining an orchestra. It is that for sure, but so much more.

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Getting Off on Handel With Emmanuelle Haim and LA Phil

Laurence Vittes | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Women Conductors, La Phil, Classical Music, Emmanuelle Haim, LA Orchestra, Orchestra, LA Philharmonic, La Music, Arts News

If Emmanuelle Haim can be signed to a long term pact she could become a conductor of superstar proportions, with a repertoire all her own. The riches reaped would be indescribable, and the advancement of classical music would be exponential.

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Colorado Symphony Orchestra Fights To Stay Alive

Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Urban Symphonies, Colorado Symphony, Video, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, City Orchestras, Colo Symphony, Colorado Symphony Financial Trouble, Orchestra, Colorado Symphony Board Steps Down, Colorado Symphony Players Take Pay Cuts, Denver Symphony Orchestra, Denver News

It has been a rough couple of weeks for the Colorado Symphony -- financial woes, a clearing out of almost the entire board, pay cuts and now cancelled...

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Bloomberg To Try Conducting Orchestra

nytimes.com | SAM ROBERTS | Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: Bloomberg, Orchestras, Ancient Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Mayor Bloomberg, Michael Bloomberg, Encores! Orchestra, Orchestra, Fiorello La Guardia, Music, New York City, New York, Arts News

He may strike some New Yorkers as a one-man band whose occasional off-key comments can strike a discordant note, but that won’t stop Mayor Michael R...

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WATCH: YouTube Covers 'Dr. Who'

The Huffington Post | Christine Friar | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Video, TV Theme Songs, Theme Songs, Dr Who, YouTube Orchestra, Covers, Dr Who Theme Song, Dr Who Fan Orchestra, Urlesque, Orchestra, Cover Songs, Comedy News

A bunch of dedicated YouTubers with an appreciation for both classical music and the British sci-fi show "Dr. Who" have banded together to form The Dr...

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The Music That Roots 'Tree Of Life'

latimes.com | Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Terrence Malick, Classical Music, Brahms Fourth Symphony, Brad Pitt, Arturo Toscanini, Bedrich Smetana, Orchestra, Culture Monster, Hector Berlioz, Zbigniew Preisner, Film, Music, Johann Sebastian Bach, Movies, Tree of Life, Arts News

In an early scene in "The Tree of Life," the new movie by Terrence Malick, an authoritarian patriarch played by Brad Pitt disrupts a family dinner to ...

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Haiku Reviews: From Classical Bach To Contemporary Mexican Murals | Los Angeles, Dresden, Long Beach

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, Long Beach, William Eggleston, Dresden, Los Angeles, Musicians, Artists, Orchestra, Lacma, Bach, Art Exhibitions, Molaa, Classical Music, Art, Slidepollajax, Haiku Reviews, Arts News

HuffPost Arts' Haiku Reviews is a weekly feature in which invited critics review exhibitions and performances in short form. Some will be in the tradi...

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WATCH: Brooklyn Orchestra Upends Traditional Classical Music

HuffingtonPost.com | Hunter Stuart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Krzysztof Penderecki, Classical Music, Video, The String Orchestra of Brooklyn, Toru Takemitsu, Hermann Psycho, Psycho, Eli Spindel, Orchestra, Hermann, New York News

WATCH: The String Orchestra of Brooklyn is a small all-volunteer orchestra that aims to bring classical music back to its roots. ...

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The LA Phil Plays With Fire -- in Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven

Rodney Punt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: LA Philharmonic, Beethoven, Mozart, Classical Music, Symphony, Orchestra, Music, Bach, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Concert, Arts News

One can hear the flickering flames depicted in the oft-performed and thoroughly charming overture, far and away the most developed movement in the score.

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There's Art Right at Your Fingertips!

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Two fascinating documentaries explore the kind of creativity that sets some artists apart from others. The conceptual gifts these artists have managed to harness put them in another realm of creativity.

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Why Our Children Should Reach for the Stars

Christina Patterson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Camp Hope, Orchestra, Venezuelan Youth Orchestra, Violin, Poetry, El Sistema, Arts News

I didn't know that a bunch of South Americans could make me cry so much. It wasn't just the applause, or the smiles, or the yells, from all around, of...

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The Birth Of Johann Strauss Jr.'s 'The Blue Danube', The Waltz That Defines Vienna

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Karl Isidor Beck, Rivers, Classical Music, Johann Strauss, Viennese Waltz, Dance, Orchestra, Wall Street Journal, Paris, Vienna, Blue Danube, Arts News

On June 3, 1899, in the midst of a benefit concert at Vienna's Volksgarten, someone approached the podium and spoke to the conductor. The orchestra wa...

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Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde

Rodney Punt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Art, Nuremberg, Aesthetics, Manufacturing, Orchestra, Technology, Music, Industrial Age, China, Composers, Arts News

One hears the scraping of steel surfaces in the quartet's micro-tuned strings, the heaving, irregular start of massive engines in sputtering drum riffs, and the sonic echoes of a warehouse.

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PERFORMANCE SPOTLIGHT: Lionel Bringuier's 'Romantic Masterworks'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: LA Philharmonic, Slideshow, Romantic Masterworks, Violin, Orchestra, Conductor, Augustin Hadelich, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Lionel Bringuier, Violinist, Arts News

WHO: Lionel Bringuier (conductor), Augustin Hadelich (violin), and the Los Angeles Philharmonic WHAT: 'Romantic Masterworks' WHEN: August 19th, 2010...

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Sting's Innovative 'Symphonicities' Enchants

Elizabeth Thorp | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Police, Sting, Baby Boomers, Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Entertainment News

I went to see his latest tour 'Symphonicities' last night at the Jiffy Lube Pavilion; a performance in which Sting has re-imagined his favorite songs for symphonic arrangement with a 45-piece orchestra.

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Verdi's Requiem

Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Symphony, Concentration Camp, Nazis, Choir, Music, Holocaust, World War II, Orchestra, Healthy Living News

My mind skipped back and forth from Theresienstadt to the Flynn theatre. The redemptive power of music has rarely been portrayed with such terror and beauty as with the performance of Verdi's Requiem, both then and now.

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An Orchestra For The Man We Feared, Loved

New York Times | JOANNE LIPMAN | Posted 11.17.2011

The other day, I found myself rummaging through a closet, searching for my old viola. This wasn't how I'd planned to spend the afternoon. I hadn't giv...

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Tantalizing Tunes: A Fall Handful of Hit Performances

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 05.25.2011

From Tchaikovsky to Broadway, Butterfly to Frankie Valli and Shalom, Toronto is truly alive with The Sound of Music!

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Weekend Off?

Brian Dickie | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Christopher Bell, Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Music Man, Passion, Francesco Milioto, Chicago Cultural Center, Acis and Galatea, Grant Park Orchestra, New Millennium Orchestra, Chicago Public Library, Chicago Art, Chicago, Orchestra, Chicago News

Their utterly delightful, spectacles and all, Marian/Galatea was Amy Conn. The show is worth it for her alone. But for much else as well.

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Gustavo Dudamel and the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra: A Musical Sensation from Venezuela

TEDTalks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arts, Culture, Children, Entertainment, Education, Music, El Sistema, Teresa Carreno, Orchestra, World News

The Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra contains the best high school musicians from Venezuela's life-changing music program, El Sistema.

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