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Charleston, w.va. – The West Virginia Symphony Orchestra (WVSO) will close its ’23-24 season with A Grand Finale! on May 4-5 in Charleston and Parkersburg.

When Jadyn Mucher of Houghton took the stage to sing with the Indiana Wesleyan University Chorale during a March convocation, she did not know the opportunity it would provide.

Two Missouri Western State University music students have been selected to appear with the Saint Joseph Symphony in the orchestras season finale on Saturday, April 20, at the Missouri Theater.

With bebop-rooted living legends such as drummer Roy Haynes, saxophonist Sonny Rollins and pianist Herbie Hancock in their 80s and 90s, the spring edition of the Exit Zero Jazz Festival has a focus on artists age 50 and younger and those whose careers started in the 1990s or more recently.

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Voices will rise en masse this weekend during the Missoula Symphony Orchestra’s final Masterworks concert of the season, titled “Moving Toward the Light.”

All-girl outfit Estrogen Projection, which bills itself as “an indie surf punk band from Lincoln, Nebraska," is quickly rising in the local music scene.

Special religious programs and events, April 20-28. Please see individual websites for your church, cathedral, temple or mosque’s regular events and services.

The Palo Alto Philharmonic is not an ordinary nonprofessional community orchestra. It regularly gives the first performances of major new compositions by a talented composer of worthwhile music.