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This weekend's Vermont Symphony Orchestra concert is a must-go for two reasons — aside, of course, from hearing the excellent VSO musicians perform. One is...

Singing and other Sins ArchiveInternational Art Song Contest has been discontinuedSee and hear Beebe Freitas playing for Winners Recitals liveContact Gary Hickling at: singing@hawaiipublicradio.orgStream past episodes of Singing and Other Sins HERECelebrating 33 years of Art Song on HPRIn the summer of 1988, after returning from UCSB’s Lotte Lehmann Centennial, I approached then HPR music director (and one of the initial founders) Bob Miller, to ask if I could broadcast a Lehmann special. He w...

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Exaudi. This lunchtime recital, entitled Chromatic Renaissance, intersperses 16th and 17th-century works with a selection of madrigals from contemporary composer James Weeks’s Primo Libro. The program opens with four of Orlande de Lassus’s Sibylline Prophecies 2 pm ET: Hamburg International Music Festival presents Insula Orchestra & Laurence Equilbey. Laurence Equilbey conducts Insula Orchestra and Accentus Choir in an all-Schumann program comprising Vom Pagen und der Königstochter O...

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Michael Collins & Michael McHale. The clarinetist and pianist’s program includes Joseph Horovitz’s Sonatina which premièred at Wigmore Hall in 1981. Widor’s Introduction et rondo was composed in 1898. At its première in 1935, Bax’s clarinet sonata was actually played twice; it was repeated in the program when the sheet music for a work by Lennox Berkeley was lost in the post. Each of the four Time Pieces by Robert Muczynski highlights a characteristic...

The Next Festival of Emerging Artists, founded in 2013 by Artistic Director Peter Askim, announces the schedule of events and guest artist lineup for its 2021 Virtual Festival, taking place June 8 – July 1, 2021.

MUSICAL SOLIDARITY PROJECT Saturday 19 June Online introduction to the #VirtualVerdiChoir’s MUSICAL SOLIDARITY/COVID-19 project and MUSICAL SOLIDARITY DOCUMENTARY  Created and produced by Italian-Israeli soprano Nofar Yacobi in response to the global COVID-19 crisis. In global collaboration with Waltham Forest Cello Fest, 55 opera houses, orchestras, cultural institutions, 16 sign language professionals and about 500 performers including singers, instrumentalists, conductors, soloists, or...