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Papanikolaou reviews Part I: Bruckner, Haydn, Schubert directed by Hugo Kach featuring NDR Sinfonieorchester conducted by Gunter Wand, and Symphony No 2 in C minor, "Resurrection" featuring the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Mahler Chamber Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado.
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Sometimes, proximity is just coincidence. Although news on July 30 that the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will return to Switzerland's prestigious Lucerne Festival in 2009 came only a day after the Philadelphia Orchestra announced its withdrawal from the same festival, the decisions were unrelated.
The Lucerne Festival initiated discussions with the Pittsburgh Symphony months earlier when it couldn't work out programming and dates with the San Francisco Symphony for 2009, says Michael Haefliger, the festival's artistic and executive director.
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REDLANDS The University of Redlands School of Music will present the acclaimed Salzburg Chamber Soloists in a special concert Tuesday, Oct. 5, at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Chapel. Admission is $10 general, $7 seniors and students with ID. Tickets will be available at the door.
Due to changes in their travel plans, the Lucerne Festival Strings, originally scheduled to perform on this date, will be unable to appear.
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Standing ovations aren't the only measure of concert success. So are getting new gigs.
Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra completed their first European tour together Saturday night with the second of two concerts at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland. The other tour concerts were in Essen and Bonn, Germany, on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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The Pavel Haas Quartet will be coming to Libby Gardner Concert Hall this Wednesday as part of the Chamber Music Society of Salt Lake City's current roster of guest ensembles.
Since winning Italy's Paolo Borciani Competition in 2005, the foursome has played in some of the world's foremost halls. This season, the group will make its debut at the Lucerne Festival and the Frick Collection in New York, as well as in Berlin's Konzerthaus.
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The Pittsburgh Symphony will make its first European tour under new music director Manfred Honeck in September 2009.
Jim Barthen, symphony vice president for public affairs, confirmed the orchestra has committed to playing at the prestigious Lucerne Festival in Switzerland. Other tour destinations, repertoire and guest artists are being determined.
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Ernst Haefliger
LUCERNE, Switzerland - Ernst Haefliger, the Swiss opera singer renowned for his oratorio and lieder, died Saturday, a Lucerne Festival spokeswoman said Sunday. He was 87.
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LUCERNE, Switzerland - Ernst Haefliger, the Swiss opera singer renowned for his oratorio and lieder, has died, a Lucerne Festival spokeswoman said Sunday. He was 87.
Haefliger died Saturday from acute heart failure in the southeastern town of Davos, said Barbara Higgs, spokeswoman for the yearly Lucerne music event.
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The Pittsburgh Symphony will make its first European tour under new music director Manfred Honeck in September 2009. Symphony vice president for public affairs Jim Barthen confirmed that the orchestra has committed to playing at the prestigious Lucerne Festival in Switzerland. Other tour destinations, repertoire and guest artists are still being determined.
The Pittsburgh Symphony last performed in Lucerne in August 2003 under music director Mariss Jansons.
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