Wendy Whelan and some young dancers making their debuts in “Interplay” were highlights of New York City Ballet’s program on Wednesday.

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A selected guide to classical music performances in New York and the area.

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LEGENDARY American blues guitarist Jimmie Vaughan is set to headline this year’s Burnley International Rock and Blues Festival.

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The Southbank, Barbican, ENO and BBC4 are catering for the new-found appetite for sonic adventure When Swiss conductor Baldur Brönnimann  was a student 25 years ago, and #34;if you had more than 30 people at a concert it was a failure because it was populist crap and #34;. Today, there are growing signs that contemporary classical music is shrugging off its elitist reputation, with audiences flocking to work …

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At the end of each month, TIME will make a Spotify playlist of new music. This time, we’ve got a 12-song mix featuring everything from Guided by Voices to Sri Lankan-American soul singer Bhi Bihman.

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Music streaming service says artists such as Adele, Coldplay and the Black Keys are wrong about impact on iTunes sales Spotify is the most successful music subscription service in the world, and is growing fast, but there is a question over whether this surge can continue. It has 3 million paying users – up from 1 million in March 2011, and is the market leader in a fast-growing sector. But it …

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PageBreak — OPERA METROPOLITAN OPERA In a set of circumstances that evoke the Met of Rudolf Bing more than the era of Peter Gelb, the two sopranos, each with their legions of fans, who shared the title role in last fall’s new production of “ . . .

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US digital music service challenges rival with push in UK and Germany using long-established brand name Rhapsody has acquired Napster and #39;s European operation, marking the music streaming service and #39;s first move beyond the US market and kicking off a battle with Spotify. The US service, which has only been available to American customers for the past 11 years, has reached a deal to acquire Napster …

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Ukrainian Sergei Polunin, still only 21, rose rapidly through ranks within two years of joining the Royal Ballet from the Royal Ballet School and was promoted to top rank in 2010 aged only 19.

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Ballet-based school for boys bids for free school funding

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Takes pop at labels for withholding Spotify executive Ken Parks says Spotify has 3 million paying customers, and 20 per cent of people who get on to the free, ad-supported part of the service are signing up to become paying punters. Most of those, 15 per cent, sign up to the premium tier, Parks claimed. The premium tier gives you offline and mobile access to the music.…

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A selected guide to performances of classical music in New York and the area.

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TWO Guerilla Gigs are being held in the foyer of St Albans Town Hall as part of the Residents First Weekend.

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The Royal Ballet and #39;s biggest star, a 21-year old part-owner of a tattoo parlour who loves gangster movies, has left the industry in shock by walking away from Covent Garden. Not even his mother knows what he will do next.

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This week brings “Born to Die,” Lana Del Rey’s major-label debut album, and by no means the first of her many lives.

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Brandon Primus a former Showtime at the Apollo winning jazz saxophonist and instrumentalist has released his first music CD. Primus is a big name who has earned countless prestigious awards over his career and is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music Boston, MA. Known as the Soulful Strut Saxophonist for his signature moves on stage, he is emerging on the scene as one of the most gifted and …

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Best classical music of 2011 express-news Copyright 2012 express-news. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 02:12 p.m., Friday, December 30, 2011 The piece, played by the Chinese superstar pianist accompanied by the San Antonio Symphony, brought the long-anticipated Jan. 12 concert to an impressive ending. Consummate …

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The Hamburg Symphony Orchestra performed “Des Canyons aux Étoiles” at Roulette on Monday.

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In Washington the Mariinsky Ballet performed three classics that Fokine made after leaving Russia a century ago.

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DETROIT — How does the Detroit Symphony Orchestra get to Carnegie Hall’ Like everyone else – practice, practice, practice. But the Motor City musicians also added a little imagination.

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PageBreak — OPERA METROPOLITAN OPERA This week, the Met offers the final performances of “The Enchanted Island,” a lighter than light Baroque pasticcio with a fresh, faux-Shakespeare text by the writer Jeremy Sams, retrofitted to (wonderful) preëxisting music, operatic and otherwise, by . . .

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The New York City Ballet performed an all-Robbins program on Friday at the David H. Koch Theater.

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In a 10th anniversary celebration at Symphony Space over the weekend the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra showed the full range of its ambitions.

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Age coarsened Frank Sinatra and #39;s voice, but lent him the gravitas to leave the ring-a-ding-dinging behind I owe a love of Frank Sinatra to having studied politics. To avoid distractions when I was revising for my finals, I would sit in the music section of the library at Leeds University, sure I and #39;d never meet any friends to drag me away from my books and files. Every 90 minutes I and #39;d take a 10-minute …

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Bruce Springsteen and #39;s new album, coming out March 6, is called and #34;Wrecking Ball. and #34;

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A selected guide to classical music performances in New York and the area.

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A LED Zeppelin tribute show will be entertaining fans of the legendary rock group in Potters Bar this weekend.

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The album from the 2011 X Factor runner-up, which hasn and #39;t been named yet, will come out in March.

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Plans for the 26th parade in the city of Hoboken, New Jersey, have been scrapped after two reports of sexual assaults and 34 arrests during celebrations last year.

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Eighties pop star Smiley Culture masterminded a £400,000 cocaine supply plot before killing himself, a court heard yesterday.

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Adele and Rihanna helped pop albums outsell rock last year, according to the Official Charts Company.

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Scientists from London and #39;s Roehampton University are studying the effects of ballet on people with Parkinson and #39;s Disease.

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Amnesty International is releasing “Chimes of Freedom,” a four-CD benefit album with covers of Bob Dylan songs, into a market that has changed since the days when pop music and social activism became bonded.

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When I first heard this album I felt I had finally found that perfect and #34;sound and #34; I had been searching for my whole life. Herbie had come very well known in Miles Davis second quintet and now was doing his own thing applying those concepts to funk. His experimentation on a multitude of analog synths has tremendously influenced what I do on synthesizers in my band, Gentlemen Hall. As well as numerous …

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A selected guide to classical music performances in New York and the area.

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The early songs – including and #34;I Saw Her Standing There and #34; and and #34;She Loves You and #34; – stand apart because of a special deal made in 1963 by a New York publishing family.

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Spotify’s unlimited free streaming and sharing service was music to American ears when it launched in July 2011. Now comes a dissonant no…

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Paul McCartney is 69 years old, but the legendary ex-Beatle has somehow managed to stay hip — until now. Sir Paul has named his upcoming album and #34;Kisses on the Bottom. and #34; No, this is not a joke. He and #39;s confirmed it.

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As the musician turns 65, we take a look back at his memorable tunes.

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The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, led by Jacques Lacombe, opened it second winter festival, called Fire, with a work by Alexander Scriabin.

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As one of Britain’s most unique superstars turns 65, a look back at an eccentric career that has made its mark in music, film and fashion.

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Singer songwriter Ed Sheeran has announced a one-off show at Thetford Forest as part of this year’s line up of summer gigs.

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Adele album 21 returns to the top of the UK album, while Flo Rida knocks Coldplay off the top of the singles chart.

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All shook up’ Ready to retrace the steps of your favorite hunka hunka burnin’ love’ Elvis Presley was born on January 8, 1935, which means he would’ve turned 77 this year, not really that old at all.

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A 25-year-old man has been charged after a five-year-old boy was left in a cr… A London double decker bus crashed into a Sainsbury’s supermarket on…

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So happy Birthday David Bowie. This expression of thanks and love is not in formaldehyde. It’s still alive and well — like you. Please know you are and always will be a hero to millions of us — and not just for one day.

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Mr. Hirshbein directed concert series at Hunter College and the 92nd Street Y, and founded the New York Chamber Symphony.

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Moscow City Ballet are performing Romeo and Juliet at Norwich Theatre Royal this February – and we have four pairs of tickets to give away.

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Mr. Hirshbein directed concert series at Hunter College and the 92nd Street Y, and founded the New York Chamber Symphony.

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The Manhattan Chamber Orchestra celebrated its 25th anniversary with a program of duos, trios and quartets at Symphony Space.

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