| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 31-Oct-2012 Théâtre des Champs-Élysées | Belgium offers Paris a night of music and royalty |
 (c) A S Trebulak.jpg) As I made my way to the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, a mass of photographers and guests dressed in their evening best waited eagerly by the front doors. Alas, this reception was not for me, but rather for the Prince and Princess of Belgium, the evening’s guests and the very reason behind the concert. In a bid to host the 2017 International Exposition, the concert was an opportunity for Belgium to bring some of its cultural highlights to Paris and demonstrate what it is capable of.Read full review... | |
| 20-Sep-2012 Roy Thomson Hall | Toronto Symphony Orchestra makes 2012/13 season new with John Adams |
 The Shang Emperor of China had inscribed on his washbasin the admonition “Make it New”.
Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s 2012/13 season made it new by including in its first-night program a work by a living composer, Harmonielehre by the American John Adams. Maestro Peter Oundjian’s bold decision succeeded in pleasing the audience when Harmonielehre was performed after intermission, thus vindicating Oundjian’s vision seven years ago when he instituted a New Creations module into the yearly program.
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| 2-Jun-2012 Beethovenhalle | La Scala on the Rhine: Harding and the Filarmonica della Scala excel |
 At first sight the choice of programme and musicians for this pre-Beethoven Festival concert was a bit odd. Music by Verdi, Richard Strauss and Dvořák played by La Scala's Filarmonica, under the direction of Oxford-born Daniel Harding.
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| 2-Oct-2010 College of DuPage: McAninch Arts Center | It's Peter Again! |
| Widely acclaimed professional community orchestra New Philharmonic opened its 34th Season with an outstanding, family-friendly concert featuring both overture classics and everyone's favorite musical fairy tale, Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf." Since its debut in 1936, Prokofiev's musical morality tale of the how brave young Peter and his three endearing animal friends engage their wits to capture the wicked wolf has captivated the hearts of thousands of individuals ranging from young children to professional musicians and even Walt Disney himself. Read full review... | |
