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The Metropolitan opera season is back. The next performance is from the musical genius of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Don Giovanni. Don Giovanni, a young, arrogant, sexually promiscuous nobleman, abuses and outrages everyone else in the cast, until he encounters something he cannot kill, beat up, dodge, or outwit.Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi leads Tony Award-winning director Michael Grandage’s    .. more …

Amidi file may contain 200 music notes in a fraction of the waveform size. Don’t forget if you can read music then you’re off to a flying start but most of us have to learn it and even this is covered in ‘Music Notes for Children’ or ‘Adults’. There are lots of music notes to memorize. And if you learn to read your music notes too, you can access an amazing array of simple popular piano books and    .. more …

BRITISH pianist Robert Markham earned international recognition as finalist in the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow.And now Robert, who was also the winner of the piano class of the BBC Young Musician competition, will be playing with the City of Peterborough Symphony Orchestra at next week’s autumn concert at The Voyager Academy, Mountsteven Avenue, Walton.Robert will play    .. more …

Race along the paths at Mirabellplatz gardens, skip across the footbridge over the river Salzach, gaze at the city’s church steeples whilst listening to the bells ringing out, walk out on the frozen lake in front of Leopoldskron Palace – the von Trapp residence, dance inside the Pavillion where Leisel and Franz first kissed, peer in through the gates at Frohnburg Palace, ride through the old city    .. more …

Organist Jeffrey Campbell, associate music director and organistat St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church, presents athree-part organ series showcasing the masterpieces of two of thegreatest composers of all time, Johann Sebastian Bach and CesarFranck.The series begins at 3 p.m. Sunday in the church, 4440 N.Campbell Ave.Bach was a master of the organ, virtuoso performer, composer,teacher and    .. more …

Wednesday, the Miami University Wind Ensemble will be performing a concert consisting of works by two dead composers and one who is very much alive: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gustav Holst and John Mackey.Mackey is the featured composer on this program and is currently at Miami, working directly with the musicians of Wind Ensemble prior to the performance.”In a way, this concert is about juxtaposing    .. more …