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Philip Glass - Beginnings education and influences. Glass was born in Baltimore, Maryland as the son of Jewish immigrants from the Ukraine. His father owned a record store, and his very refined record collection consisted to a large extent of unsold records, and thus Glass encountered modern music (Hindemith, Bartók, Shostakovich) and classical music, (Ludwig van Beethoven's String Quartets and Schubert's two Piano Trios), at a very early age. He then studied the flute as a child at the Peabody Conservatory of M ...

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List of symphony orchestras - Canada. Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra (also known as the CPO) (official site) CBC Radio Orchestra Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (official site) Montreal Symphony Orchestra (also known as the OSM, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal) (official site) Kanata Symphony Orchestra (official site) Manitoba Chamber Orchestra (official site) National Arts Centre Orchestra (official site) Symphony New Brunswick (official site)

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A Concert hall is a cultural building, which serves as performance venue, chiefly for classical instrumental music. Many larger cities have both public and private concert halls. The three finest concert halls in the world are generally considered to be Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, Boston's Symphony Hall, and Vienna's Musikverein. List of major concert halls - List of major concert halls. 92nd Street YMCA, NYC Aarhus Concert Hall, Aarhus, Denmark Alice Tully Hall, NYCIncluding:

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List of symphony orchestras - Hong Kong. Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra - Hong Kong List of symphony orchestras - Philippines. Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra San Miguel Philharmonic Orchestra Carrillo Symphony Orchestra Metro Manila Community Orchestra Manila Philharmonic Orchestra List of symphony orchestras - Japan. NHK Symphony Orchestra - Tokyo, Japan Osaka Phiharmoni ...

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The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like standard clarinets, it is usually pitched in B flat (meaning it is a transposing instrument where a written C sounds as B flat), but it plays notes an octave below the "normal" B flat clarinet and an octave above the contrabass clarinet. Bass clarinets in other keys, notably A, also exist. Bass clarinet - Description. Most modern instruments are straight-bodied (the body most often being made of grenadilla or African Blackwood), with a s ... Including:

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