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Special to The Aspen Times A piano soloist with the bona fides of Daniil Trifonov and a conductor with the stature of Vasily Petrenko figured to make Sunday’s Festival Orchestra program one of the high points of the Aspen Music Festival season. It was. They cut through a rainstorm that persisted through the entire concert to deliver an incendiary performance of Skryabin’s lurid Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor. The rain started to fall on the Benedict Music Tent just as Petrenko gave the dow...

Vancouver Symphony to Premiere Vivian Fungs Flute Concerto Storm Within The live streamed performance, titled Sun and Storm, also includes Schuberts Fifth Symphony.by BWW News Desk The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, led by Tania Miller, will perform the world premiere of JUNO-winning composer Vivian Fungs Flute Concerto "Storm Within," featuring VSO principal flutist Christie Reside as soloist, on Friday, June 4, 2021 at 7:30pm PT. The live streamed performance, titled Sun and Storm, also inclu...

Rescue, as well as traditional and popular songs. View here for three days. 7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Verdi’s Luisa Miller. Starring Sonya Yoncheva, Olesya Petrova, Piotr Beczala, Plácido Domingo, Alexander Vinogradov, and Dmitry Belosselskiy, conducted by Bertrand de Billy. Production by Elijah Moshinsky. From April 14, 2018. View here and for 24 hours. 8 pm ET: Seattle Opera presents The Big Opera Show. A journey through Seattle Operas upcoming season featuring special gues...

Photo: Mark McKone, Carleton’s Towsley Professor of Biology, reached a professional milestone in October 2020: his first article published in a music journal. The paper, titled “The Iowa Bird That Inspired Antonín Dvořák’s American String Quartet in 1893: Controversy over the Species’ Identity and Why It Matters,” digs deep into both music history and ecology. It argues that the birdsong inspiration for the third movement of Dvořák’s “American” String Quartet in F major wa...

The Itasca Symphony Orchestra prepares the release of their first ever virtual holiday concert on Dec. 20 As with so many arts and educational organizations in 2020, the Itasca Orchestra and Strings Program has used creativity to persevere in the time of COVID. Luckily, as a band of musicians, they’re used to having to ‘play it by ear’ once and a while! Getting creative is what arts organizations do. Shortly after their concert in February that celebrated Beethoven’s 250th b...