Sony Masterworks Re-Releases Terry Riley's Pioneering In C
NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Sony Masterworks) - To celebrate the 45th anniversary of Terry Riley's collaborative music piece In C - a landmark work that gave birth to the minimalist movement in the 1960s - Sony Masterworks is releasing the first ever re-mastering of the original session master tapes. ...
| Paul Potts Celebrates Mothers Day With 'Mamma'
New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) - Paul Potts' unlikely rise to fame on Britain's Got Talent drew over 75 million YouTube viewers and next month, he'll be return to the spotlight with his sophomore album 'Passione,' out on Columbia Records May 5th. On the new album, Potts' performs a ...
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Grammy Award winner Mark S. Doss Makes His Opera Tampa Debut As Mephistopheles in Faust
TAMPA, FL. (Top40 Charts/ Mark S. Doss Official Website) - Global opera star and Grammy Award winner Mark S. Doss will appear in his first production with Opera Tampa when he takes the stage as Mephistopheles in Faust on April 17 and 19, 2009. Mephistopheles is one of Mr. Doss' signature roles - he ...
| YouTube Symphony Orchestra Joins With Samsung In First-Ever IT Partnership
SEOUL, South Korea (Top40 Charts/ Samsung) - The 90 musicians selected from thousands of online auditions to create the first YouTube Symphony Orchestra will receive a special gift at their Carnegie Hall debut this month - Samsung's S1 Mini external hard drive, engraved with the YouTube Symphony Orchestra ...
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Who's Who At Napa Valley Festival del Sole 2009
New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) - Declared a "feast of the senses" by the New York Times, the fourth annual Festival del Sole is a celebration of the finest music, cuisine, wine and hospitality in Napa Valley from July 17-25. The festival will feature performances by many highly acclaimed ...
| Andrea Bocelli Announces 2009 Spring Tour In Support Of His Latest Album 'Incanto'
NEW YORK, NY. (Top 40 Charts/ Decca Label Group) - Superstar Andrea Bocelli will embark on a U.S. tour this June, in support of his acclaimed Decca/Sugar disc, Incanto. Incanto is a romantic tour-de-force, featuring Bocelli's glorious sound in perfect complement to the rich and sonorous tradition of ...
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Celebrated Seiji Ozawa Ongaku-juku Announces Orchestra Tour of China
NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Seiji Ozawa Ongaku-juku) - The world-renowned conductor, Seiji Ozawa, is taking his prestigious Seiji Ozawa Ongaku-juku on an orchestra tour of China this April. Now in its 10th year, the Ongaku-juku is comprised of Japan and China's most promising student musicians who ...
| Opera Superstar Denyce Graves To Sing At Commonwealth Youthchoirs Concert
PHILADELPHIA, PA. (Top40 Charts/ Commonwealth Youthchoirs) - Commonwealth Youthchoirs has announced that Denyce Graves, recognized worldwide as one of today's most exciting vocal stars, will appear as guest star at its Annual Gala Concert at the Kimmel Center on June 16, 2009. Denyce Graves is particularly ...
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Paul Potts Follows Up Worldwide Success With 'Passione'
New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) - Paul Potts' sophomore album 'Passione' will be released on Columbia Records on May 5th. 'Passione' features Potts' original Italian operatic renditions of many classics as well as a duet with Soprano Hayley Westenra and support from the Czech National ...
| Roger Powell Releases Solo Piano Blue Note Ridge
SAN FRANCISCO, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Fossil Poet Records) - Roger Powell releases Blue Note Ridge, a collection of improvisations that embrace classical melody, contemporary harmony and impressionist forms on this debut solo piano album. A stream of consciousness merging styles and eras, Blue Note Ridge ...
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Leading International Music Stars Headline The Fourth Annual Napa Valley Festival Del Sole
New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) - Napa Valley Festival del Sole, one of the world's most distinctive summer festivals, announces its fourth season in California's beautiful wine country, July 17-25, 2009. With performances every day, music is the centerpiece of a festival hailed by The ...
| FUJITSU TEN Announces The 'ECLIPSE Masterclass' In Association With Berklee College Of Music At Boston's Historic Trinity Church On March 26, 2009
BOSTON, MA. (Top40 Charts/ ECLIPSE) - FUJITSU TEN LIMITED, manufacturer of leading automotive electronics, has teamed up with Boston's Berklee College of Music, the institution that pioneered college-level, contemporary music education, to host the 'ECLIPSE Masterclass,' at 6:30 p.m., on March 26, 2009 ...
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Dranoff Foundation Brings Classical Music, Poetry, Rap 'Mash-Up' To Arsht Center, May 5
MIAMI, FL. (Top40 Charts/ Dranoff International Two Piano Foundation) - The Dranoff International Two Piano Foundation will host 'Piano Slam: The Music Speaks,' a two-piano classical music and rap poetry mash-up at the James L. Knight Concert Hall at the Arsht Center on Tuesday, May 5, culminating an ...
| Musicians From Thirty Countries And Territories To Comprise YouTube Symphony Orchestra
New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Youtube) - YouTube announced the members of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra, the world's first orchestra selected entirely through auditions on-line. The musicians will travel from thirty countries and territories around the world to New York City to participate in a classical ...
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Denon Classics' Andre Rieu No 1 Top Selling Classical Artist & No 8 Pollstar Touring Act In 2008!
SANTA MONICA, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Denon Classics) - Denon Classics, once again the U.S.'s No 1 independent Classical label is celebrating the announcement of Andre Rieu as the No 1 selling Classical artist for 2008 according to Billboard Magazine as well as attaining the No 8 spot in Pollstar Magazine ...
| Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra National City Superpops Series Friday/Saturday March 13/14 Concert Presents Downtown Diva Starring Petula Clark
DAYTON, OH. (Top40 Charts/ Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra) - On Friday, March 13 and Saturday, March 14, 2009 at 8 p.m. in the Schuster Center, DPO Music Director Neal Gittleman and the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra welcome legendary pop vocalist Petula Clark. Born with "a voice as sweet as chapel bells," ...
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Mark O'Connor's Violin Revolution
New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) - In a revolutionary move, famed composer and violinist Mark O'Connor is preparing to release the first-ever violin method that reflects an "American School" of study. For hundreds of years, the origins of violin education have been abroad - Germany, Russia, ...
| The Priests in Concert at Armagh Cathedral DVD
London, UK. (Top40 Charts/ SONY BMG MUSIC Entertainment) - Three Northern Irish middle-aged priests - brothers Father Martin and Father Eugene O'Hagan, along with school friend Father David Delargy - who signed a global recording deal in 2008 with Sony BMG, made an extraordinary debut concert in one ...
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Erland Von Koch Has Passed Away
LONDON, UK (Top40 Charts/ Erland Von Koch Official Website) - He belonged to the circle of composers that debuted during the 1930s. Others in this group were Lars-Erik Larsson and Gunnar de Frumerie. The composer Erland von Koch was 98 years old, and one of the foremost Swedish composers of the 20th ...
| Music From Presidential Inauguration Released By Sony Masterworks Exclusively On iTunes
NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Sony Masterworks) - Air and Simple Gifts , the classical work composed to celebrate the historic inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States, has been released by Sony Masterworks exclusively via the iTunes Store. The work, written especially for the talents ...
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