Cedille Records Christens New Mid-Price CD Label With Masses by Menotti and Vierne Chicago, IL (Cedille Records) - Cedille Records, Chicago's independent classical label, has launched a new mid-priced imprint, Cedille FOUNDation, with a CD of archival performances of the William Ferris Chorale singing masses by Gian Carlo Menotti and Louis Vierne, recorded live in concert in the 1980s. ...
| The World's Biggest-Selling Soprano of All Time Sarah Brightman and Chart-Topping Group Celtic Woman Will Make Great Stocking Stuffers This Season NEW YORK, NY (Manhattan Records) - Best known for her breakout role in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "PHANTOM OF THE OPERA," Sarah Brightman went on to become the biggest-selling soprano of all time, selling over 25 million records, 2 million DVDs and playing sold-out shows worldwide. Her latest release "DIVA: ...
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Brilliant Classics Releases 'Complete Bach Edition' NEW YORK, NY (By James Scileppi/ KOCH Entertainment) - Following the recent success of its Complete Mozart Edition CD set which sold over 300,000 copies worldwide and hit the Top 10 classical chart in the U.S., Brilliant Classics is pleased to announce the release of its newly-modified "Complete Bach ...
| Classical Composer Luke Parkin Releases New Album New York, NY (SASi Public Relations/ lukeparkin.com) - Luke Parkin is becoming widely known as one of the great young poets of the piano, this week he officially released his latest album entitled Things I Didn't Know I Loved. The album is a two disk CD set of contemporary classical piano music inspired ...
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The Washington Ballet at THEARC Will Perform at the 6th Annual 'A Taste of Africa' Washington, DC (Sankofa International) - The 6th Annual "A Taste of Africa," a life changing event, for the entire family, will be held at the Town Hall Education Arts & Recreation Center (THEARC) located at 1901 Mississippi Avenue, S.E., Washington, D.C. 20020. The purpose of the event is to share ...
| 'Whisperings' Piano Concerts Returns to Seattle Area with Grammy-Nominee Peter Kater Seattle, WA (MIDNIGHT RAIN PRODUCTIONS) - "Whisperings: Solo Piano Radio" returns to the Seattle area for a concert event on Saturday, November 4th at 7:30 pm, at Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue. This unique, interactive solo piano concert series features the piano artistry of twice Grammy-Nominee Peter ...
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The World Renowned Irish Tenor Ronan Tynan Sings Across America in Support of His New Decca CD The Dawning of the Day NEW YORK, NY (Universal Music Classics Group) - Wearing many hats that include doctor, champion disabled athlete, motivational speaker, and world-class tenor, Ronan Tynan is undeniably unstoppable as he travels across America singing songs of hope and inspiration from his latest Decca CD, The Dawning ...
| San Francisco Opera and MobileCast Media Launch Podcasting Partnership With an Interview With Opera Icon Deborah Voigt BURLINGAME, CA (MobileCast Media) - San Francisco Opera and MobileCast Media have announced the formation of a new podcasting partnership, which will debut online with an interview with opera icon Deborah Voigt. Conducted by San Francisco Opera General Director David Gockley, the interview with Deborah ...
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Free Classical Music Downloads of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony Launch Philadelphia Orchestra Online Music Store Philadelphia, PA (www.nugs.net) - Free classical music downloads of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony launch The Philadelphia Orchestra's Online Music Store, created in partnership with nugs.net enterprises LLC, at www.thephiladelphiaorchestra.com and toll free at 1.888.747.6847. The Philadelphia Orchestra ...
| Mozart Complete Works Box Expands Boundaries of Budget CD Product Line PORT WASHINGTON, NY (By James Scileppi/ KOCH Entertainment) - KOCH Entertainment Distribution is pleased to announce that its distributed box set "Mozart Edition: Complete Works," a 170 CD anthology containing all of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's works in one budget-priced package for $149.98, has made ...
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Possible Dreams! LOS ANGELES (www.eliselebec.com) - Pianist Elise Lebec hopes that when people hear her music, it helps them to dream about a better world and then encourages them to make those dreams come true. Her third album, POSSIBLE DREAMS, is a solo piano recording filled with 14 original compositions inspired ...
| Kids Play Piano for Hurricane Relief, Sell DVDs of Performance to Raise Money for Victims Batavia, IL (SAPRPA) - When students of Zinn Piano Academy Lab School in the San Francisco Bay Area and suburban Chicago learned of the devastation wreaked by last year's hurricanes in the Gulf Coast, they asked what they could do to join in the relief efforts. The answer they discovered, with the ...
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Apogee World Scholars Win Seven of the World's Most Prestigious Competitions for Young Performing Artists New York, NY (APOGEE FOUNDATION) – The Apogee Foundation today announced that Apogee World Scholars Vadim Muntagirov and Dmitrij Smirnov had won seven of the world's most prestigious performing arts competitions in the last seven months. Muntagirov's victories occurred at four major events in ...
| KVOD & Neural Open Colorado Symphony Orchestra's Season With Live 5.1 Surround Sound Broadcast KIRKLAND, Wash. (Neural Corporation) - KVOD will broadcast the Colorado Symphony Orchestra's 2006-07 Masterworks season opening program on September 16 in 5.1 surround sound, using Neural's 5.1 technology for analog and HD Radio. The concert will be aired live from Boettcher Concert Hall at the Denver ...
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'Whisperings' Piano Concert Comes to Detroit Detroit, MI (MIDNIGHT RAIN PRODUCTIONS) - "Whisperings: Solo Piano Radio" comes to the Detroit area for a concert event on October 8th at 3:00 pm, Sunday afternoon at Hammell Music in Commerce Township, MI, just north of Detroit. This unique solo piano concert series features the piano artistry of Bradley ...
| Naxos of America and eMusic Introduce MPkey Downloadable Classical Music Collections, Now in Borders Stores FRANKLIN, TN and NEW YORK, NY (eMusic) - Naxos of America, the leader in independent distribution of classical music in the United States, and eMusic, the world's largest retailer of independent music and the world's second largest digital music service, will introduce MPkey, a series of downloadable ...
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Fortuna Classical Music Announces Podcast Service Through Partnership With San Diego Opera SAN DIEGO, CA. (Fortuna Classical Music) - Fortuna Classical Music is proud to announce a partnership with San Diego Opera to host all video podcasts. Podcasts and video podcasts are multimedia files that can be accessed over the internet which allow users to listen or view to them via their computers ...
| The Mozart Effect Author/Producer Don Campbell Going To Japan NEW YORK (Don Campbell Official Website) - Don Campbell, best-selling author and producer of The Children Group's award-winning The Mozart Effect: Music for Babies/Music for Children series of CDs, is going to Japan on Oct. 26-27 on behalf of King Record Co., Ltd., who is the exclusive licensee of these ...
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Opera Great Jessye Norman Teams With Rachael Worby and The Pasadena POPS Orchestra for Concert of Hope for 1,500 Students at Pasadena's Blair High Sept. 22 PASADENA, CA. (Pasadena POPS Orchestra) - In an extraordinary one-time event, legendary opera star Jessye Norman, acclaimed as one of the world's greatest sopranos, will join maestra Rachael Worby and The Pasadena POPS Orchestra in a rare West Coast performance exclusively for 1,500 inner city students ...
| 'Whisperings' Piano Concert Comes to Atlanta, GA Atlanta, GA (MIDNIGHT RAIN PRODUCTIONS) - "Whisperings: Solo Piano Radio" comes to the Atlanta area for a concert event on September 9th at 7:00 pm at PianoWorks in Duluth, GA, just north of Atlanta. This unique solo piano concert series features the piano artistry of Wayne Gratz, Michael Dulin, Greg ...
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