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Longy School receives $100K to study El Sistema-inspired education programs
The Longy School of Music of Bard College—located in Cambridge, Massachusetts—has received a $100,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a two-year study of El Sistema-inspired...
May 30, 2014
Live broadcasts for Montreal Symphony Orchestra to feature world premieres
The Montreal Symphony Orchestra will offer broadcasts of its May 29 concert at two media outlets. Titled “Bach, Liszt, and Saint-Saëns” and presented at the Maison symphonique de Montréal,...
May 29, 2014
League notes passing of Marianne Segura, former development director
Marianne Gilchrist Segura, who led fundraising efforts at the League of American Orchestras in the 1980s and early 1990s, first as development director and later as a consultant,...
May 30, 2014
New York Youth Symphony’s 2014-15 season
The New York Youth Symphony’s 2014-15 season will encompass three orchestra performances at Carnegie Hall, as well as jazz performances at Jazz at Lincoln Center, and chamber music performances...
May 28, 2014
Make Music New York returns with piece for headphone choir, other works
Make Music New York, the annual daylong festival of free participatory events in New York City held on June 21, has announced that its eighth festival will...
May 27, 2014
Military personnel to be celebrated in Buffalo, N.Y., and Columbia, S.C.
The Buffalo Philharmonic and the South Carolina Philharmonic are among the orchestras that will celebrate military personnel in presentations this spring....
May 23, 2014
NY Phil’s Matthew VanBesien awarded honorary degree by Manhattan School of Music
Matthew VanBesien, executive director of the New York Philharmonic since 2012, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Musical Arts degree by the Manhattan School of Music at the school’s...
May 22, 2014
Conductor/composer Avner Dorman at CityMusic Cleveland
Avner Dorman, in his first season as music director of Ohio’s CityMusic Cleveland Chamber Orchestra, will conduct the world premiere of his own Violin Concerto No. 2 (“Nigunim: Hebrew...
May 22, 2014
New York Philharmonic invites public to upload visual art to be displayed at Biennial
Using the hashtag #letsplaynyp, the New York Philharmonic is inviting the public to submit photos, artwork, and video to share via social media for its NY Phil Biennial, reflecting...
May 20, 2014
Ma, Gittleman, and Alsop to receive honors this spring
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and conductors Neal Gittleman and Marin Alsop are among musicians being honored this spring. On May 23, Yo-Yo Ma will be the inaugural recipient...
May 19, 2014