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Many American cities are home to a orchestra, with the most prominent including the Cleveland Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra (Minneapolis, formerly the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra), Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic, the oldest symp ...

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Being the daughter of Professor Dr. Edwin L. Carstensen, a biomedical engineer and one of the world's leading authorities on ultrasound in University of Rochester, NY, Dee was influenced by her father with his music talents on piano and clarinet. Dee and her four siblings began to take music lessons, with Dee started on piano first. At the age of eight, Dee was selected as one of only five children tapped to study harp with a classical harpist from the New York Philharmonic Orchestra by the Eastman School of Music's experimental progr ...

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Aaron Jay Kernis, born January 15, 1960 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is one of the most highly-honored contemporary composers. He studied at the Manhattan School of Music, the San Francisco Conservatory, and Yale University, under John Adams, Jacob Druckman, Morton Subotnick and Charles Wuorinen. Notable works include the New Era Dance, his second string quartet musica instrumentalis (which won the 1998 Pulitzer prize), Colored Field for En ...

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Yin Chengzong (born 1941) (Chinese: 殷承宗; pinyin: Yīn Chéngzōng) is a pianist. Born on the "Piano Island" of Gulangyu in Xiamen, Fujian Province, in the People's Republic of China. Although trained as a classical pianist, he is perhaps best known to the West through the Yellow River Concerto he arranged based on the Yellow River Cantata and performed in many Western theaters since 1980s. Yin started learning the piano in 1948 when he was seven years old, and gave his first recital at the age of nine. At twelve, h ...

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Each summer, the Public Theatre presents free open-air theatre productions, often starring well-known stage and screen actors, in the Delacorte Theatre. Most, though not all, of the plays presented are by William Shakespeare, and the performances are generally regarded as being of high quality since the start in 1962. The New York Philharmonic gives an open-air concert every summer on the Great Lawn and the Metropolitan Opera presents two operas. Many concerts have been given in the park including the Simon and Garfunkel ...

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An orchestra is a musical ensemble used most often in classical music. A small orchestra is called a chamber orchestra. A full size orchestra may sometimes be called a "symphony orchestra" or "philharmonic orchestra"; these prefixes do not indicate any difference either to the instrumental content or role of the orchestra, but can be useful to distinguish different orchestras based in the same city (for instance, the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra). A symphony orchestra will usuall ... Including:

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• Orchestra - A conductorless orchestra
• Orchestra - Other meanings
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Charlie James Shavers (August 3, 1920 to July 8, 1971) was a swing era jazz trumpet player who played at one time or another with Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge, Johnny Dodds, Jimmy Noone, Sidney Bechet and Billie Holiday. He was also an arranger and composer, and one of his compositions, "Undecided", is a jazz standard. Born in New York he originally took up the piano and banjo before switching to trumpet. In the mid-thirties, he performed with Tiny Bradshaw and Lucky Millinder. In 1936 he joined John Kirby's Sextet as trumpet ...

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Bohuslav Martinů listen ▶ (help·info) (born in Polička, December 8, 1890 – August 28, 1959) was a Czech composer. He was born in a bell-tower where his father, a shoemaker by trade, was a watchman. Even as a child, he developed a reputation locally, and he gave his first public concert in his hometown in 1905. In 1906 Martinů became a violin student at the Prague Conservatory. He studied briefly there (before being dismissed for "incorrigible negl ... Including:

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The Chichester Psalms is a choral work by Leonard Bernstein for countertenor, choir and orchestra (3 trumpets in Bb, 3 trombones, timpani, percussion (5 players), 2 harps, and strings). A reduction written by the composer pared down the orchestral performance forces to organ, harp and percussion. Bernstein stated explicitly in his writing that the part for countertenor may be sung by either an actual countertenor or a boy soprano, but never by a woman. This was to reinforce the liturgical meaning of the passage sung, perhaps to ... Including:

• Chichester Psalms - The Piece
• Chichester Psalms - Introduction
• Chichester Psalms - First Movement
• Chichester Psalms - Second Movement
• Chichester Psalms - Third Movement
• Chichester Psalms - Finale

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Bernard Herrmann (June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975) was a composer, best known for his film scores, particularly for those directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He wrote the scores for Citizen Kane, Cape Fear and Taxi Driver as well as for the original radio broadcast of Orson Welles' The War of the Worlds. He also wrote scores for television programs in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest film composers of all time. Bernard Herrmann - Early Life and Career< ... Including:

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• Bernard Herrmann - Use of Electronic Instruments
• Bernard Herrmann - Compositional Style and Philosophy
• Bernard Herrmann - Legacy
• Bernard Herrmann - Film scores
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Walter's conducting is often distinguished by a Viennese warmth and humanity which he extracted from his orchestra. Like Otto Klemperer, Walter worked with Mahler, and his performances of Mahler's works are considered outstanding, particularly his recording of the Ninth Symphony, the first performance of which he was privileged to give. The recording, the first of that symphony, was made at a live performance of the Vienna Philharmonic in January 1938 - just two months before the Nazi Anschluss drove Walter into exile. One of Walter's ...

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Born near Alexanderplatz to a Jewish family, Bruno Walter began his musical education at the Stern Conservatory at the age of eight, making his first public appearance as a pianist when he was nine. However, following visits to one of Hans von Bülow's concerts in 1889 and to Bayreuth in 1891, Walter changed his mind and decided upon a conducting career. He made his conducting début in with Lortzing's Waffenschmied in 1894. Later that year he left for the Hamburg Opera to work as a chorus director, where he first met and worked with Gustav Mahler, whom he idolized and with whose mu ...

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