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Millie Tyssowski, a retired Medicare executive and Social Security Administration budgeting official, died of congestive heart failure May 16 at Sinai Hospital. The Dickeyville resident was 93. - Anthony McGill, co-principal clarinetist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and a Peabody Conservatory faculty member, is headed to top spot at New York Philharmonic.
- Marin Alsop leads Baltimore Symphony in Shostakovich's symphonic portrait of 1917 Russian revolution; program includes Beethoven's 'Emperor' Concerto with pianist Yefim Bronfman.
- When Lyric Opera Baltimore closes its season with Verdi's first hit, 'Nabucco,' the audience will not only get to hear an encore of a choral number, but sing along with it.
- The Anne Arundel Community College Symphony Orchestra continues to surpass audience expectations under music director and conductor Anna Binneweg, now in her eighth season at the college.
- When Trio 180 performs for the Sundays at Three series on Sunday, May 4, at 3 p.m. in Christ Episcopal Church, it should feel at home in such a sacred setting. That's because this chamber music ensemble is in residence at Old First Church in San Francisco.
- The Mahler work, which Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony recorded in 2008, is on a program that also features Rachmaninoff's 'Rhapsody' with pianist Yekwon Sunwoo.
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- The sound of harmonized voices echoed through the halls of Lansdowne High School on Tuesday morning. "Four, three, two," Micah Smith said while striking the keys of a piano as 25 students began to sing under his direction.
- Celebrated violinist Itzhak Perlman, who enjoys a second career as conductor, is wearing both hats in his latest appearance with the Baltimore Symphony.
- Czech conductor Jakub Hrusa makes impressive podium debut with Baltimore Symphony in program that also features veteran pianist Andre Watts.
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- Sundays at Three chamber music series will feature five Baltimore Symphony Orchestra woodwind and string section leaders performing on Sunday, April 6, at 3 p.m., at Christ Episcopal Church in Columbia.
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- Maxim Kozlov will conduct a cello exploration program on Saturday, March 29, for kids ages 5 to 8 at 11 a.m. and ages 9 to 12 at 12:30 p.m. at Ellicott City's Miller Branch Library, at 9421 Frederick Road.
- French conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier leads BSO in vivid program that includes Sibelius' Symphony No. 1.
- National Symphony Orchestra music director has added two years to his contract, taking him through 2016-2017 season.
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- Program of symphonies by Corigliano and Tchaikovsky brings out the best in conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Washington Performing Arts Society presentation.
- The Howard County Concert Orchestra's music director, Ronald Mutchnik, will be seated rather than standing when his orchestra does a "Magnificent Mozart" program on Sunday, March 23, at 4 p.m., at St. John's Episcopal Church in Ellicott City.
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- Live Arts Maryland music director J. Ernest Green conducted the Annapolis Chorale Chamber Chorus, Annapolis Chamber Orchestra and soloists last weekend in performances of masterworks by three of the world's finest composers, filling St. Anne's Episcopal Church in Annapolis with glorious sound.
- Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg plays Shostakovich violin concerto on program with orchestral works by Rachmaninoff, conducted by Marin Alsop. Rachmaninoff;
- BSO programs spiritual works by Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler, Bernstein and others; season's guest artists include Hilary Hahn, Garrick Ohlsson, Patti LuPone, Mandy Patinkin.
- The Chagall Trio explores the 19th-century romantic repertory when it performs on Sunday, March 9, at 3 p.m., at Christ Episcopal Church in Columbia.
- The Kennedy Center's lineup for 2014-2015 season to include festival of Iberian culture; premiere of Degas-inspired theater work; operas new to Washington.
- Anthony McGill, principal clarinetist of Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, gives radiant account of Mozart concerto with Baltimore Symphony and conductor Marin Alsop.
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- There is a lot of great music that the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has not programmed lately, if at all, music that audiences should be hearing.
- Concert Artists of Baltimore offered works by Mendelssohn and Arthur Benjamin; string works by Mendelssohn, Grieg and Tchaikovsky performed by the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra.
- The parents of Baltimore Symphony Orchestra music director Marin Alsop died within days of each other.
- Joseph Young, first recipient of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra-Peabody Institute Conducting Fellowship, gets new post with Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
- Program at Kennedy Center includes Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto and the first National Symphony Orchestra performance of Hindemith's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd."
- The Columbia Orchestra loves to play new music. That means it's primed to perform the winning composition in its sixth American Composer Competition on Saturday, Feb. 1 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 2, at 3 p.m. at the Jim Rouse Theatre at Wilde Lake High School. This competition's winner is Michael Djupstrom.
- National Symphony Orchestra will perform Hindemith's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," a piece sometimes called an "American requiem."
- Contemporary compositions, such as Thomas Ades' "The Tempest" and Maria Schneider's "Winter Morning Walks," dominated the classical categories in the 56th Annual Grammy Awards.
- John Weber, a tenor who sang in opera productions and was the music director of a Rodgers Forge church, died of an apparent heart attack Jan. 17. The Catonsville resident was 50.
- Death of the inspiring Italian conductor leaves music world a poorer place.
- Pianist Jeremy Denk and Baltimore Symphony's principal bassoonist Fei Xie featured in program of conducted by Nicolas McGegan.
