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America’s First Orchestra
…but it was a successful one. The new orchestra kept giving concerts, and people kept coming. Over the decades, musicians and conductors came and went. The self-managing cooperative gave way…
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Felix Mendelssohn
…1837. The couple had five children together. Later Life and Work In 1835, Mendelssohn assumed the role of director of the Gewandhaus concerts in Leipzig. Under his leadership, Leipzig became…
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
…appointed the director of the Russian symphony concerts, a position he held until 1900. He also performed internationally, leading concerts of Russian music at the Paris World Exposition in 1889…
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Georg Philipp Telemann
…he also served as the organist at the university chapel, Neuenkirche. He also revamped the student Collegium Musicum into an efficient amateur orchestra giving public concerts, a novelty at that…
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Asturias by Albeniz, Arranged for Cello Solo
…performed over 200 concerts there from 1996 to 2013, making it the longest series of cello solo concerts. The sheet music is available at georgcello.com and Sheet Music Plus. Live…
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Louis Moreau Gottschalk
…they are considered precursors of jazz. They also stand as the first examples of Louisiana Creole music in classical music culture. Gottschalk’s concerts were a sensation in Europe, with luminaries…
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Francisco Tárrega
…in reviving the guitar as a solo instrument in recital and concerts. Tárrega’s legacy lives on through his compositions of approximately 78 original works and 120 transcriptions for the solo…
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Leonard Bernstein
…conducting departments at Tanglewood, teaching there for many years. In 1958, Bernstein was named Music Director of the New York Philharmonic. He held this position until 1969, leading more concerts…
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George Li Performs Schumann’s Fantasiestücke, Op. 12
George Li, age 13, performed Schumann’s Fantasiestücke – Aufschwung and other classical pieces in a live performance at WGBH in October 2008. He also successfully performed four concerts with the…
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Schumann’s Symphony No. 2 and Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2, Performed by Khatia Buniatishvili with the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker
In 2011, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker toured the Basque Country with GMD Andrey Boreyko. Five concerts were held in San Sebastian, Pamplona, Vitoria, and Bilbao. The Basque National Orchestra traveled to Düsseldorf…
