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Jazz fests of August Free jazz fests across the U.S. mark summer's glorious end. Manhattan's Charlie Parker festival (held Saturday Aug. 23 and Sunday 24 in Marcus Garvey park uptown and Tompkins Square Park downtown), the Chicago Jazz Festival (which formally starts Thursday Aug 28 with Sonny Rollins at downtown Grant Park's Petrillo bandshell).nd the Detroit International Jazz Festival (celebrating Detroit-Philadelphia music connections, Aug 29 - Sept. 1 on multiple stages along the river at Hart Plaza and down. Tickets.

CBC 92: DaXun Zhang interview part 1 Ravinia pavilion, We're featuring an interview with and music from double bass soloist DaXun Zhang this week on Contrabass Conversations. The winner of numerous prestigious solo competitions, DaXun is a true virtuoso, capable of a level of musical expression and technical dexterity rarely seen on the instrument. In this first segment of our interview (which we will conclude next week), we discuss DaXun's early years on the instrument, his studies at the Central Conservatory.n Beijing, and his relocation.

V.com weekend vote: How do you like your Tchaik? By The Weekend Vote: Well, since Andrew Sords suggested it in a discussion thread earlier this week, I just couldn't resist. First, a little background: Tchaikovsky wrote his famous violin concerto in 1878, and when he offered it to the great violinist Leopold Auer, the violinist famously rejected.".unplayable.".The concerto was premiered three years later in Vienna, by Adolf Brodsky. Auer eventually changed his mind about the concerto and became one of its biggest champions. He also revise. Ticket.

V.com weekend vote: How do you like your Tchaik? By The Weekend Vote: Well, since Andrew Sords suggested it in a discussion thread earlier this week, I just couldn't resist. First, a little background: Tchaikovsky wrote his famous violin concerto in 1878, and when he offered it to the great violinist Leopold Auer, the violinist famously rejected.".unplayable.".The concerto was premiered three years later in Vienna, by Adolf Brodsky. Auer eventually changed his mind about the concerto and became one of its biggest champions. He also revise. Chicago Symphony Orchestra estate.

Chicago Sun-Times?Sinfonietta makes Pritzker debut beneath the 'Planets'? [Dr. Paul Freeman (b. 1936), Founder/Music Director of the Chicago Sinfonietta]Chicago Sun-TimesAugust 22, 2008BY WYNNE DELACOMAThe Chicago Sinfonietta is having another go at the solar system. In May 2006, the orchestra gave two performances of Gustav Holst's .".The Planets.".that featured an elegant video movie of the planets using images photographed over the years by NASA space probes. With its gigantic images of roiling sunspots and orbs that looked like art objects hung against deep, black. Chicago Symphony Orchestra tickets.

Symphony names new director Ravinia pavilion tickets, By DIANA MIDDLETON The Times-Union After a turbulent past season that included a stand off between symphony administration and the musicians, the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra has ended its search for an executive director who can create harmony. The symphony announced today that Stacy Ridenour, currently the executive director of the Kalamazoo Symphony, will join the symphony in October, according to Jim Van Vleck, chairman of the board of directors. The search committee chose Ridenour .

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Electroacoustic Pioneer Donald Erb Dies Electroacoustic pioneer Donald Erb, a composer that helped promote the acceptance of electronic music, died Aug 12th at his home in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. He was 81. Erb's Reconnaissance, one of the first chamber works for live synthesizer and acoustic instruments, premiered in New York in 1967 with Robert Moog on synthesizer. A more recent work, The Seventh Trumpet, has had more than 200 performances by more than 50 orchestras in the United States and overseas. It incorporates synthesizer. , ticket brokers.