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Grammy-nominated composer Zhou Tian's Night Tour will be performed by the six finalists of the Shang

The Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition (SISIVC) has announced that its Third Edition, originally scheduled for 2020, will now be completed online, without naming a winner. The six finalists will not compete in a Final Round for rankings or for the record-breaking first prize of $100,000, as originally planned. Instead, the six finalists will jointly present an online concert entitled "In Tribute to Isaac Stern’s Centennial SISIVC Winners’ Concert," available to watch August 26-28 on SISIVC’s official social media channels. The jury committee will not give sc...

The six finalists will virtually perform on August 26-28. Each will take home US$20,000 to help fund

Performing a violin concerto by W. A. Mozart can be very revealing, considering the music's deceptive simplicity and classical elegance. It's not music that plays itself; instead, the performer has to bring his or her own sense of musical style into the interpretation. And it gets a little more complicated when you have to write all your own cadenzas! That was the task for semi-finalists in the virtual 2020

3 pm ET: London Philharmonic Orchestra presents All the World’s a Stage. The LPO celebrates Brett Dean, their new Composer in Residence, with the UK premiere of The Players. The scene is Elsinore, setting of Dean’s opera Hamlet, with the solo role played by accordion player James Crabb. The concert begins with Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 and ends with Stravinsky’s mock-Baroque Pulcinella. View here.  6 pm ET: Philadelphia Chamber Music Society presents Mark Steinberg, Marcy Rosen, and Jonathan Biss play Beethoven. Celebrate Beethoven’s 250th birthday as three chamber mu...