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San Diego Youth Symphony honored for restoring music education in schools
The San Diego Youth Symphony and Conservatory was recently recognized for its ongoing success in restoring music education to schools in San Diego County....
October 3, 2014
Study: better grades, fewer absences for students in Play On, Philly! program
Play On, Philly!, an El Sistema-inspired afterschool music program in Philadelphia, is reporting positive preliminary findings from an independent study by the arts consulting group WolfBrown....
October 2, 2014
Erie Chamber Orchestra’s 2014-15 season
Pennsylvania’s Erie Chamber Orchestra opened its 2014-15 season on September 19 with Music Director Matthew Kraemer conducting Milhaud’s Le Boeuf sur le toit, Ravel’s Ma Mère l’Oye, and Roberto...
October 1, 2014
Spokane Symphony’s $25 College Card and Facebook group
The Spokane Symphony will continue its College Card discount-ticket program this season, through which college students pay $25 for a pass good to any Classics, SuperPops, or Splash concert...
September 30, 2014
Michigan Philharmonic to open 2014-15 season with world premiere
The Michigan Philharmonic, based in Plymouth, will open its 2014-15 season on October 4 with the world premiere of Victoria Bond’s Bridges, led by Music Director Nan...
September 29, 2014
Recordings news
Among the organizations and musicians announcing recordings news is the New York City-based VIA Records, whose inaugural release is The Violin, a multimedia collaboration by composer Anna...
September 26, 2014
Recordings news, September 2014
In August, the All-Star Orchestra and Music Director Gerard Schwarz recorded a second season of television episodes at the Great Hall of the Performing Arts Center in...
September 25, 2014
Seattle Symphony co-commissions by Bates, Currier, Anderson, and more in 2014-15
The Seattle Symphony and Music Director Ludovic Morlot have announced details of commissions and world premieres for the 2014-15 season. Mason Bates’s new cello concerto—a co-commission with the...
September 24, 2014
New contract at Lexington Philharmonic
In Kentucky, management and musicians of the Lexington Philharmonic have ratified a new contract that runs through June 30, 2018, following negotiations that began in April and continued following...
September 23, 2014
Philadelphia Orchestra performance at U.N. tonight to be webcast
This evening, Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin will lead musicians from the Philadelphia Orchestra and the choristers of the Philadelphia Singers at a performance being held at the 69th Session...
September 22, 2014
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