Pinchas Zukerman

Please submit listings by going online to metromix.com/listings. CRITICS' PICKS Alfonso Ponticelli and Swing Gitan: The spirit of gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt resonates in the work of Alfonso Ponticelli and his band.—Howard Reich. 10 p.m....

AMHERST EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL July 8 — Ciaramella. Music for Renaissance winds and voices by Heinrich Isaac, Heinrich Finck, Guillaume Dufay and others. July 10 — Amherst Baroque Academy Soloists. "Virtuosic Music of Germany." Performers are...

THURSDAY Family: Millennium Park, Michigan Avenue and Randolph Street, Chase Promenade, 1, 3 and 5 p.m. Australia's Strange Fruit, a Melbourne-based performing arts company that fuses dance, circus and spectacle theater. Performers perched atop 14-foot...

Violinist Rachel Barton Pine-star attraction on this balmy night in Santa Fe--is stranded. She yearns to get up from the back-yard lawn chair where her husband has deposited her and stroll to a pool that's shimmering green-blue in the desert twilight....

OCTOBER Today -- New World Symphony Chamber Music Series. Orion String Quartet. Nielsen, Grieg, Mendelssohn, 3 p.m. Lincoln. Today -- Frost Chamber Players. Bruch, Schubert, Bartok, Gershwin, 3 p.m. Festival Miami at Gus-Hall. 10 -- Frost Symphony...

Events schedules frequently change. It's best to call before you go. Bach Festival Society of Winter Park Performances of the Choral Masterworks Series are in the Knowles Memorial Chapel at Rollins College, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park. Single tickets...

Few classical performers are as loved by Chicago audiences as violinist Pinchas Zukerman, and it's no surprise that his frequent appearances here since his 1970 debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra are matched only by those of his friends Itzhak...

The chamber music equivalent of the Super Bowl, World Series and Chicago Marathon, all rolled into one. That was the all-star concert presented by pianist Daniel Barenboim and friends Itzhak Perlman, violin, Pinchas Zukerman, viola, and Yo-Yo Ma, cello,...

Tickets for the Ravinia summer schedule are on sale now at www.ravinia.org Christoph Eschenbach has ended the suspense. He is not leaving Ravinia — at least not until after the 2003 summer season. The festival has extended his contract through 2003, his...

The Viennese of Mozart's time considered the string quartet to be the pinnacle of chamber music, thanks in large part to the contributions of Joseph Haydn, who invented and perfected the form. Though Mozart was no slouch in this genre, he saved his...

Pinchas Zukerman wears many hats, and the latest is that of music director of Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra. As a string virtuoso—doubling up on viola and violin—he has few equals. But Zukerman's track record as a conductor is less secure if...

Maybe because he's one of classical music's durable triple treats as conductor, soloist and chamber player, Pinchas Zukerman is invited back to town as often as a favorite relative. If it's fall, then it must be another musical get-together with old crony...