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Ross is one of the city leaders working to bring the Georgia Music Hall of Fame to Dunwoody. “We have a rich history of music in the state of Georgia and it needs to be presented to the greatest audience that we can provide,” he said.Currently located in Macon, the Hall of Fame has struggled financially for years, drawing just 23,000 visitors last year and taking half a million dollars in bailout    .. more …

The usual apology given for Hugo Wolf’s prominent and sharp criticisms of Johannes’ Brahms’s Lieder is perhaps Wolf’s association with the Wagner Society in Vienna. Craig A. Bell describes Wolf as being “blinded by his Wagner fetish and personal ambiguity to the point of being unable to see anything in Brahms.”The Wiener Akademische Wagner-Verein (or famously known as the Wagner Society), which    .. more …

SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – With former tenor and founding member Ronan Tynan back on the roster for a round of Christmas shows, The Irish Tenors head to Shippensburg University reunited and feeling good.The Irish Tenors will perform Sunday, Dec. 19, at the H. Ric. Luhrs Performing Arts Center in Shippensburg, Pa. People seem to love these guys.The buzz about the reunion show stop at the Luhrs Center has    .. more …

Western SLOVAKIAVIENNESE child prodigy Stefan Stroissnig, who has been playing the piano publicly since he was 11, will appear at a concert on November 29, at 18:00, in the Mozart Hall of the Austrian Embassy in Bratislava, to perform Bndiction de Dieu dans la solitude by Franz Liszt, Sonata No 2 Fis Minor by Johannes Brahms, and Gasteiner Sonata by Franz Schubert. Admission is free. For more    .. more …

Back 11/01/2010 Ludwig van Beethoven: Trio in C Minor, Opus 1, No. 3 Maurice Ravel: Trio in a Minor for Piano, Violin and Cello Donna Kwong (Piano), Emily Bruskin (violin), Julia Bruskin (cello)Recording: The Concert Hall of the Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, State University of New York (May 10-12, 2010) – 54’48Tria Records #TR3862 – Booklet in English Why the unlikely pairing of    .. more …