Stradivarius violin auction raises $11 million for scholarships at Boston music school
BOSTON - The sale of a one-of-a-kind violin just raised $11.3 million for scholarships at Boston's New England Conservatory ...
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19 iconic pop songs you didn’t know were directly inspired by classical music
The world of hip-hop and classical music might not seem like natural bedfellows, but seasoned rapper Nas turned a sample of Beethoven’s ‘Für Elise’ into a smash it. Frank Sinatra – Full Moon and Empty ...
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Free Classical Music Concert To Benefit Flossmoor Nonprofit
FLOSSMOOR, IL — A free classical ... of the Music Institute of Chicago, playing works by Bach, Kreisler, Paganini and Tchaikovsky. This year's performers include Alexandra Dreeson on violin ...
A 311-Year-Old Stradivarius Violin Sells for $11.25 Million at Sotheby’s
The money from the sale of the violin, which was once owned by the 19th-century virtuoso Joseph Joachim, will benefit a ...
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Chamber Music from Belfast and Sibelius’s Violin Concerto
dazzling at the piano in Liszt. And there’s more music-making from Belfast in our centrepiece today, when Italian violinist Francesca Dego joins the Ulster Orchestra for Sibelius’s Violin ...
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‘An Evening of Brazilian Music for Viola and Piano’ at UW Jan. 22
The program will feature music for viola and piano by Francisca Aquino ... Pontes has won several top classical musical competitions in Brazil playing the violin, as well as prizes in international ...