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at Verizon Wireless amphitheatre at Encore Park Music Director Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus to Perform excerpts from Barber of Seville , and Carmina Burana Music Director Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus will open the second classical season at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park, the Orchestra’s new 12,000-seat state-of-the-art facility located in Alpharetta, GA (north of Atlanta), on Saturday, June 20, 2009, at 8:00 p.m. The concert will be led by Mr. Spano and feature Soprano Georgia Jarman , the ASO debuts of Tenor Nicholas Phan and Baritone Matthew Worth , and the Gwinnett Young Singers in excerpts from Rossini’s Barber of Seville , and Orff’s complete Carmina burana . Mr. Spano, who is currently rehearsing for Seattle Opera’s Ring Cycle in Seattle, is making the trip back to Atlanta especially to open the season. “The Orchestra’s inaugural season at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park last summ...

YouTube Video of Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) Symphony no.6 "Tragic" in A minor (1/9) 1st mouvement (1/3) Lucerne Festival Orchestra Claudio Abbado 2006 In celebration of the release of Bernstein Mahler: The Complete Symphonies by Sony Masterworks , Interchanging Idioms is giving away ONE set of this marvellous collection to one of our readers. For more details click on the button on the upper right. For more information about Leonard Bernstein visit his website , his MySpace Page or Sony Masterworks information on Leonard Bernstein.

Mike Heyl, a senior at Upper Arlington High School, is living his dream by creating an electric orchestra with 30 other students. By combining a couple of his bandmates with a couple musicians from another band, then filling out the rest of the ensemble with students in the other high school music groups (the orchestra, concert band and chorus), Heyl's "Electric Orchestra" will perform a collection of rock pieces ranging from Led Zeppelin to Coldplay. "[Classical music] was the building block of what music is today," Heyl said. "We wouldn't have had rock 'n' roll if people didn't branch out and find new ways to make music." The Upper Arlington Electric Orchestra at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 23, in the high school's auditorium, 1650 Ridgeview Road.

New York Times Ranks Ensemble’s New Mahler 4 “Among the Very Best” Fischer and Budapest Festival Orchestra Will Return to New York in March 2010 for a Remarkable Project Conductor Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra – currently celebrating their 25th-anniversary season – have made another recording that has people talking: a new release of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony that has quickly established itself as a top recommended version despite fierce competition from other recordings, both classic and more recent. Already a Gramophone “Editor’s Choice” and the recipient of a top “10/10” rating from the review website ClassicsToday , the new recording – issued in the States in April – has now received an enthusiastic review in the New York Times . Critic Steve Smith reports: “In recent weeks the Staatskapelle Berlin has staked a claim on Mahler with a noteworthy traversal of his symphonies and some of his orchestral songs at Carnegie Hall. The Hungarian conductor Iván Fis...

YouTube Video of Claudio Abbado (Conductor) Anna Larsson (Soloist) Lucerne Festival 2007 In celebration of the release of Bernstein Mahler: The Complete Symphonies by Sony Masterworks , Interchanging Idioms is giving away ONE set of this marvellous collection to one of our readers. For more details click on the button on the upper right. For more information about Leonard Bernstein visit his website , his MySpace Page or Sony Masterworks information on Leonard Bernstein.

California Solar Electric and LifeSource Supports the Festival’s 2009 “Green” Initiatives Ojai Environmental and Artistic Missions Combine with “Green” Sound Sculptures by Trimpin In response to increasing demands on the planet from climate change and pollution, last year the Ojai Music Festival in California’s lush and fertile Ojai Valley instituted a multiyear green plan to preserve the historic area once marked sacred by the ancient Chumash Indians for future generations. This year the Festival will continue those efforts with support from California Solar Electric, a leader in clean energy, and LifeSource, which focuses on returning water to its natural state and will introduce several new green initiatives. “What makes the Ojai Music Festival so special is the unique symbiosis between the high-level music performed here by the world’s greatest artists and the incredible natural beauty that surrounds us. We want this always to be here for our children and their children,...

YouTube Video of This track contains the well-known Welte-Mignon piano roll of Gustav Mahler playing his own Symphony no.4 (fourth movement). The roll was recorded on November 5th 1905. Later (in 1992) the roll was recorded and here we have this recording with an overdubbed soprano voice singing the lied which is part of the movement. In celebration of the release of Bernstein Mahler: The Complete Symphonies by Sony Masterworks , Interchanging Idioms is giving away ONE set of this marvellous collection to one of our readers. For more details click on the button on the upper right. For more information about Leonard Bernstein visit his website , his MySpace Page or Sony Masterworks information on Leonard Bernstein.