classical music

A fast-food restaurant said it has seen a decrease in anti-social behaviour from customers, since it started playing classical music. McDonald's in Welwyn Garden City had been identified as a disorderly behaviour "hotspot" by police, as first reported in the Welwyn Hatfield Times. The restaurant turns off its ...

Alterity Chamber Orchestra teamed up with soprano Ariadne Greif and composer Christopher Cerrone this week. They performed his work The Pieces That Fall To Earth, a song cycle based on the poems of Kay Ryan, US poet laureate from 2008- 2010. Cerrone, Grief and clarinetist Natalie Grata, ...

Our guide to the city's best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead. BAYERISCHES STAATSORCHESTER at Carnegie Hall (March 28, 8 p.m.; March 29, 7 p.m.). Surely the highlight of this spring's classical music schedule is this rare visit from the orchestra of the Bavarian ...

Our guide to the city's best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead. ACADEMY OF ST. MARTIN IN THE FIELDS at David Geffen Hall (March 19, 8 p.m.). Joshua Bell brings the famed London chamber orchestra to Lincoln Center, leading it from the concertmaster's chair ...

Bach Festival showcases classical music. Scholz+was+accompanied+by+Matt+Raley+on+violin%. Natalie Hanson. Scholz was accompanied by Matt Raley on violin, Robert Bowman on harpsichord and Burke Schuchman on cello. Photo credit: Natalie Hanson. Natalie Hanson March 14, 2018. Filed under A&E Sliding ...

Three years ago the Cleveland Museum of Art presented Merima Ključo's Sarajevo Haggadah, a multimedia work for accordion, piano, and video tracing the story of a Jewish prayer book's eventful journey from medieval Spain to 20th-century Bosnia — where it was hidden and rescued during World War II ...

The three pieces Seattle Symphony Music Director Ludovic Morlot selected for this evening brilliantly showcase the many facets of the ocean. The program starts with Sibelius's serene tone poem, The Oceanides. The room will then sparkle and effervesce when the orchestra dives into Britten's Four Sea ...

The most established classical music event in Turkey, the Istanbul Music Festival has been running for 45 years and, over the decades, has hosted a number of prestigious orchestras and ensembles. As well as offering plenty of opportunity for visitors to immerse themselves in the classics, it prides itself on ...

Soberanes isn't your stereotypical classical music student; for starters, his favorite artist is Travis Scott, the hit-making, psychedelic trap rapper. Since enrolling at the San Francisco Conservatory, he's interned at Kanye West's creative agency DONDA and done audio engineering for video games like The ...

Sound of inspiration Tesla Quartet brings classical music to life for younger audience. BY JOHN BAILEY jbailey@hickoryrecord.com; Mar 4, 2018 Updated 11 hrs ago; (0) · Facebook · Twitter · Email. Tesla Quartet Rug Concert-2. Buy Now. ROBERT C. REED/HICKORY DAILY RECORD: Tesla Quartet performing one of their ...

The George Pub, on the corner of Great Portland Street and Mortimer Street, is one of London's unlikelier musical landmarks. Forlornly shrouded in scaffolding and deprived of its obligatory saint-and-dragon sign, its closed doors hardly merit a second glance from today's shuffling commuters. It's all a far cry ...

Spring Classical Music Preview: Debussy, Frederic Rzewski, and More. Pianists rule at the New York Philharmonic this season, while the spotlight is on works for string quartet at the Miller Theatre. By Russell Platt. Featured this spring: the voices of the people of Philadelphia, and the musicians of the Met ...

Do you feel all weird and woozy when you hear a chord cluster? Does the very thought of a perfect cadence make you melt? Then you'll love these super-geeky classical music memes.

Some people collect classic cars. Others collect art or commission portraits. Ann and Harry Santen of Hyde Park commission classical music. And their collection keeps growing. This spring, two of the couple's commissions are being performed within three weeks of each other. On March 20, the Ariel ...

Music lovers interested in learning more about classical music can attend an upcoming four-part class the Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra is presenting at the Mt. Pleasant Public Library. “Classical Encounters” will explore the four basic periods of classical music - baroque, classical, romantic and ...

Our guide to the city's best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead. TIMO ANDRES at Bargemusic (March 9, 8 p.m.). The composer and pianist gives a solo recital showcasing his own music — “How Can I Live in Your World of Ideas?” — and that of three of his peers, ...

Our guide to the city's best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead. PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD at Carnegie Hall (March 8, 8 p.m.). It is not often that one looks at a program and thinks that Beethoven's titanic “Hammerklavier” Sonata might well be the less interesting half ...