J.S. BACH's CHRISTMAS ORATORIO AS YOU'VE NEVER HEARD BEFORE!

  It's what happens when a team of creative individuals decides to take a look at Bach's   
   timeless sacred Christmas music from a contemporary perspective. The unique
   combination of the KING'S SINGERS a capella style and the WDR BIG BAND sound is a
   feast for the intellect, the emotions, and the soul and makes for fascinating listening during
   this Christmas season.
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  A FAMILY CHRISTMAS

  If TRADITIONAL is more your cup of tea, then let the rich sound of the ROYAL SCOTTISH
   NATIONAL ORCHESTRA and the joyous voices of the children who make up the RSNO
   JUNIOR CHORUS fill your living room. You can't go wrong with these jewels in the crown
   of Scotland's musical life.

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And... don't forget - this season's GIVEAWAY BONANZA includes these GEMS (CLICK on IMAGE to JOIN):

 "SANTA AND THE LITTLE TEDDY BEAR"! It's the perfect Christmas GIFT BOOK -
  magical, beautifully written and richly illustrated, and let SANTA take you along with BILBO,
  the little teddy bear, as he brings gifts to faraway lands with exotic cultures and spreads the
  true message of Christmas.

  It's also a book filled with MUSIC - with complete lyrics of your favorite Christmas carols  
  and folk songs!

BUY THE BOOK HERE and 20% of the sales proceeds will benefit FANFAIRE FOUNDATION's “Bring Kids to the Concert” and other children’s programs.

Celebración: 2010 Opening Night Concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall was a special program of bel canto arias and popular Latin American canciones selected by Dudamel and famed Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez who was the guest artist. Celebración will air in the U.S., Wednesday, December 29, 2010 at 9 p.m. as part of public television’s performing arts series Great Performances. (check local listings).  Read MORE...

GUSTAVO DUDAMEL LEADS THE LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ON HIS FIRST EUROPEAN TOUR AS MUSIC DIRECTOR, JANUARY 21 – FEBRUARY 5, 2011
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  Houston Grand Opera’s 23rd World Premiere of Mark Adamo’s Popular Setting of Little
  Women released on Naxos DVD

  Houston Grand Opera Little Women, recorded for this release at its HGO revival in 2000, had its
  premiere in 1998 in the Cullen Theater at the Wortham Theater Center in Houston and was
  nationally telecast on the PBS series “Great Performances.”  It starred the then upcoming mezzo-
  soprano and HGO Studio Alumna JOYCE DI DONATO as one of the four March sisters, who has since risen to the heights of the operatic firmament to become one of the world's leading and award-winning mezzos. She was most recently honored as Gramophone's "2010 ARTIST OF THE YEAR."
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Gift of Free Music This Holiday Season @ www.medici.tv

Music lovers around the world can now experience superlative classical music and opera performances in the comfort and intimacy of their own homes by logging on to www.medici.tv.  As the holiday season shifts into high gear, www.medici.tv offers free-of-charge the following remarkable concert programs for video streaming: Giorgio Strehler’s legendary production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro from the Opéra National de Paris (available for streaming through Dec 31); American violinist Joshua Bell's performance with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra of Tchaikovsky's unabashedly romantic Violin Concerto in D at the annual Nobel Prize Concert, held on December 8 at the Stockholm Konzerthuset (available beginning Friday, December 10 and for 60 days thereafter); Serge Baudo conducting Berlioz’s luminous oratorio, L’enfance du Christ (The Childhood of Christ), which will be webcast live from the Auditorium de Lyon on December 16 (and available afterwards for streaming on demand); and a complete cycle of Mahler’s nine symphonies conducted by Christoph Eschenbach (available until June 2011).

Launched in May 2008, www.medici.tv offers an extraordinary catalogue of video-on-demand programs featuring a host of legendary artists in concert, recital, and opera performances, documentaries, and portraits for the $10 per month and $99 for an entire year.