Stop. Look. Listen.

Emily Saliers, one-half of the Indigo Girls, will perform in Lancaster with her father, retired theology professor Don E. Saliers, who has written a number of books on theology and worship, at 7 tonight at the Church of the Apostles, 1850 Marietta Ave. An offering will be taken to benefit the Lancaster Theological Seminary’s Dolores […]

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Patricia Racette as Cio-Cio-San in the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, to be shown live in HD 1 p.m. Saturday, March 7, at Penn Cinema.

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My review, from the March 2 Lancaster New Era …
Classical musicians, like many other musicians, like to get out from under the umbrella of larger groups and take the spotlight in smaller ensembles.
The Lancaster Symphony Orchestra’s new chamber music series put violinist Igor Yuzefovich, the orchestra’s concertmaster, pianist Michael Sheppard and cellist Dariusz Skoraczewski in […]

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That’s right, Glass as in Philip Glass. Violinist Maria Bachmann, performing with Jon Klibonoff, piano, will be performing a new work, Duo No. 1 for Violin & Piano, Saturday, Feb. 28 at the Whitaker Center in Harrisburg, part of the Market Square Concert series. The work was commissioned for the 70th birthday of Market Square […]

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The RSO is going around the world — more info here.

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Youtube Orchestra in, Muzak out. (Links via Artsjournal.com)

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Opera fans take note: Lucia Di Lammermoor live Met broadcast at Penn Cinema 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 7. Details here.
Market goes medieval: Veritas Academy students singing in the aisles at Central Market last Saturday promoting their Valentine Madrigal Feast, to be held Feb. 13 and 14 at the Inn of Leola Village. Tickets are $35 per person and can be […]

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Felix Mendelssohn, born in 1809 and died in 1847, a child prodigy who became a man of great accomplishment in a variety of fields and a transitional figure between the classical and romantic periods of music, is drawing plenty of attention in his bicentennial year. Even a small amount of reading reveals that there is still much to […]

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Exhibiting a striking combination of strength and grace, thought and emotion, Xiaopei Xu played a formidable program, consisting of J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Beethoven’s Sonata in F. Minor Op. 57, the “Appassionata,” and Frederic Chopin’s Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52, Friday, Jan. 23 at the Pa. Academy of Music.
Taking on one of the monuments […]

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Yo-Yo Ma and the other musicians were playing along to a recording — a necessary step due to the cold and wind. Read more here. 

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