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The Passenger Premieres in Bregenz: "A masterpiece"
Mieczyslaw Weinberg's opera The Passenger receives its staged premiere in four performances during this year's Bregenzer Festspiele. David Pountney directs; Teodor Currentzis leads the Vienna Symphony. The festival will also present a number of Weinberg's orchestra and chamber works and a symposium on the composer's life and works.
More Information on Festival events and
Reviews.
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"Sure on this Shining Night" CD released
The Voce ensemble, based in Connecticut, has produced a striking CD of Morten Lauridsen's music. The composer worked closely with the ensemble and accompanies some of the choral works at the piano. The CD includes 4 premiere recordings. More Information.
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The Nashville Symphony After the Flood
Help the Nashville Symphony recover losses sustained in the recent flood by purchasing a digital download of Michael Daugherty's Metropolis Symphony, recorded on Naxos by the Symphony under the direction of Giancarlo Guerrero.
The recording, priced at $3.99, will be available through all major DSPs and online retailers, including iTunes, Amazon MP3, ArkivMusic.com, Classical Archives, and eMusic. Proceeds will go to the Symphony.
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Tania Leon Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Tania Leon will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters at its Annual Ceremonial on May 19. Composed of 250 architects, artists, composers and writers, the Academy fosters and sustains interest in literature, music and the fine arts by identifying and encouraging individual artists. Election to the academy, based in New York, is considered the highest formal recognition of artistic merit in the United States.
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Mexico 2010: A Double Celebration
This year Mexico celebrates both the Bicentennial of its independence and the Centennial of the Mexican Revolution. Chicago, sister city of Mexico City, hosts an extensive celebration of Mexican culture and art, with classical music being presented by The Chicago Symphony, the Civic Orchestra, Chicago Sinfonietta, Grant Park Music Festival, Loyola University, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Click here for a complete list of our works by Mexican composers.
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Miguel del Aguila: "Salon Buenos Aires" CD on Bridge Records
Five chamber works that explore a new terrain between contemporary classical chamber music and Latin popular and folk styles, in bravura performances by Camerata San Antonio.
Review on NewMusicBox.
Available on Amazon
and iTunes.
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On View: a video of recent John Musto CD releases
Here is a short, fast-paced video tour of 4 recent recordings of John Musto's music: 2 operas, songs for voice and piano, and chamber music. For more about the recordings, see this page and scroll down.
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July 30 - In Tanglewood's Seiji Ozawa Hall, H. Robert Reynolds concludes his concert with the Boston University Young Artists Wind Ensemble with Michael Daugherty's Red Cape Tango.
July 30,31 - The Columbus Symphony performs Moncayo's Huapango,conducted by Albert Schram.
July 31 - The Grant Park Music Festival performs Revueltas's Homenaje a Federico Garcia Lorca, Marquez's Danzon No. 2, Galindo's Sones de Mariachi and Moncayo's Huapango, conducted by Enrique Barrios.
August 3 - Release of "Mi Alma Mexicana" (My Mexican Soul), a SONY Classical 2-CD set performed by the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas, Alondra de la Parra conducting. More information at Amazon. August 7 - Alan Hovhaness' Prayer of St. Gregory is featured at the Interlochen Center for the Arts.
August 7 - Michael Daugherty's Niagara Falls is performed at the Minnesoata MEA's All-State Summer Festival.
August 7,8 - Taiwan's Taipei Symphony performs Danzon No. 2.
August 13 - Peter Bay leads Oregon's Britt Music Festival Orchestra in Moncayo's Huapango and Revueltas's Suite from Redes. Bay will present 5 Mexican orchestral works at home with the Austin Symphony this November.
August 19 - Gerhardt Zimmermann conducts Danzon No. 2 at the Breckridge Music Institute.
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-- Now Available! --
Michael Daugherty:
Red Cape Tango for Symphonic Band
transcr. Mark Spede, in a newly engraved score
Purchase Score
parts available on rental
Arturo Marquez: Danzón No 2 transcr. Oliver Nickel
One of the most popular contemporary works for orchestra now available for symphonic band.
Purchase Score and Parts
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