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The Bagri Foundation was established in 1990 to provide support for education, healthcare and relief work. Its founder, Lord Bagri, CBE, believed in a collective responsibility to give back to society. He saw education as a great enabler; a means of empowering individuals and bringing communities and ideas together. His
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Carnegie Hall’s free streaming series continues on Thursday evenings throughout December with new original Live with Carnegie Hall episodes curated by leading artists and Learn with Carnegie Hall programs on Wednesday afternoons featuring highlights from Carnegie Hall’s three acclaimed national youth ensembles: the National Youth Orchestra of the
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To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, On Air will broadcast from Vienna, the world capital of classical music for ‘the year of Beethoven’. The exclusive performance of Gustav Mahler’s Re-Orchestration of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, will be conducted by Johannes Vogel at Synchron Stage Vienna. From
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Wasfi Kani was born in East London to Indian parents who had left the subcontinent during the Partition of India. She attended Burlington Grammar School for Girls, where she excelled at Maths and Music. She played the violin for the National Youth Orchestra and proceeded to study music at St
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Dan Brown, comes this very special, inventive and unique book, Wild Symphony. This marks the author’s debut in picture books and has stemmed from his love of music. Not only are all poems amid an orchestral score with music composed by
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This fall, online audiences have the opportunity to hear musical insights directly from some of the world’s leading artists through a new weekly video series drawn from the rich catalogue of master classes for emerging artists presented by Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute (WMI). Beginning October 14 through
A symphony orchestra is a large ensemble of musicians who play a variety of musical instruments to produce a unified sound. The term “symphony” comes from the Greek word “sym-phonia” which means “sounding together.” The symphony orchestra has been an integral part of classical music for over three centuries, and
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On Wednesday, October 7 at 7:30 p.m. (EDT), Carnegie Hall presents its first-ever Virtual Opening Night Gala Celebration, inviting music lovers worldwide to mark the Hall’s 130th anniversary season, honouring its illustrious past and looking to the future. This free online program will feature leading musicians, including
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Herbert von Karajan was for decades the most artistically significant figure of the Salzburg Festival. His artistic vision and sound-aesthetic rewrote the history of interpretation, and continues to exercise their fascination to this day. In cooperation with Deutsche Grammophon, the Karajan Institute presents a new digital series of podcast-styled albums
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DG Stage will host the first-ever virtual Bayreuth Festival this summer. In partnership with the spiritual home of Richard Wagner’s music dramas, DG Stage will present sixteen evenings between 25 July and 29 August. The four works scheduled for the 2020 Bayreuth Festival – Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin
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The Covid-19 pandemic has and continues to affect our lives in an endless number of ways. Graded music examination boards during this time have been immensely supportive and have been working hard to adapt to the ever-changing and evolving situation at hand. One of the lesser known boards is the
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Deutsche Grammophon has launched DG Stage – a new key feature in DG Premium. DG Stage has opened for the purchase of tickets to watch streams of a dazzling series of exclusive concerts, including Anna Netrebko starring as Tosca in a new open-air concert production from Naples, Rolando Villazón singing a
