This concert from the National Centre for Performing Arts celebrates the Chinese New Year, led by conductors Lü Jia, Peng Jiapeng, and Chen Lin. Works include Li Huanzhi's Spring Festival Overture, Ma Sicong's Symphony No. 2, and music from Ravel and Brahms.
Enjoy great music programming all weekend long: From the Top Saturdays at noon, Classical Guitar Alive Saturdays at 5 pm, With Heart and Voice Sundays at 1 pm, and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Sundays at 9 pm.
Robert Aubry Davis explores the sources and mainstreams of European music for the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Between the Keys - 3 PM Friday/6 PM Saturday
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Treasures from the long playing era
Wednesdays at 3 PM and Sundays at noon
Music Director and Bard College President Leon Botstein leads the orchestra in this program of music evoking Spring themes.
Enjoy conversations with and performances by classical musicians of local, national and international fame Thursdays at 3 pm and Saturdays at 4 pm on Cadenza - winner of the 2014 ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Awards. This week: Violist and composer Jessica Meyer
Upcoming and Noteworthy - For Your Listening Pleasure This Weekend
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Sounds Choral this Sunday (4/28) celebrates the birthday of Johannes Brahms.
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This week's Opera is Berlioz's "Benvenuto Cellini" which has a mostly fictitious libretto even though Berlioz wanted to base it on Cellini's memoirs. The recording comes from the Metropolitan Opera's 2003 production featuring Marcello Giordano in the title Role.
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This program features Sinatra singing songs from eleven of the films with which he was associated and even includes a song from his short stint in "Carousel."
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The Lyric Stage Sunday (4/28 at 8 pm) features Act two of Alfonso und Estrella.
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Join George Marriner Maull, Artistic Director of The Discovery Orchestra, for a delightful exploration into the musical details of a new selection on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of every month at 7:30 pm. This week: Are you Feeling 3, or 2? - Music of Antonin Dvorak.
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