Spring for Music
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Spring for Music: A Retrospective
The first annual Spring for Music festival featured unconventional programs by seven North American orchestras. Listen to each of the complete concerts here.
May 15, 2011 -
The Montréal Symphony Explores Symphonies and Asks: What's in a Word?
Why is a symphony relevant for today? It's a question Kent Nagano poses as the Montréal Symphony Orchestra closes out the Spring for Music festival at Carnegie Hall tonight. The progr... May 14, 2011
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Spring Fever: Symphonic Metamorphosis
The symphony has undergone such transformation since it first emerged as a conventional form hundreds of years ago. Concluding Carnegie Hall's Spring for Music festival, Kent Nagano ... May 14, 2011
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Montréal Symphony Orchestra: The Evolution of the Symphony
Kent Nagano, Music Director GIOVANNI GABRIELI - Sacrae Symphoniae for brass excerpts JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH - Sinfonias, for solo keyboard, Nos. 1-5 (Angela Hewitt, Piano) ANTON WEB... May 14, 2011
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Spring Fever: Dawn Upshaw, Soprano and Muse
This evening, Friday May 13 from 5 to 8 pm, Q2 continues work in tandem with WQXR's Spring for Music broadcast of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra's performance with soprano, Dawn Upsha... May 13, 2011
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The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Soprano Dawn Upshaw joins conductor Maria Schneider for the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's return to Carnegie Hall. IGOR STRAVINSKY - Concerto in D for String Orchestra MARIA SCHNEI... May 13, 2011
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Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Mixes It Up With Jazz Composer, Intrepid Soprano
Tonight at 8 pm, our live broadcasts from Carnegie Hall continue. Soprano Dawn Upshaw joins the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra for the New York premiere of Maria Schneider's Carlos Drum... May 12, 2011
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Spring Fever: Music in Time of War
Artists have often used their art as a means of making sense of the horrors of war and taking a political stance: from Salvador Dalí's painting Face of War to Kryzstof Penderecki's st... May 12, 2011
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Oregon Symphony: Music for a Time of War
American baritone Sanford Sylvan joins the Oregon Symphony. Carlos Kalmar, Music Director CHARLES IVES - The Unanswered Question JOHN ADAMS - The Wound-Dresserfeaturing Sanford Syl... May 12, 2011
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Spring Fever: Pulitzer Prize Winners
Carnegie Hall's Spring for Music festival is designed to allow orchestras to flex their creative programming muscles and provide an outlet to think outside of the overture-concerto-sy... May 11, 2011