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The Royal Philharmonic Society of Great Britain celebrates its bicentennial this year.  Special events have been taking place in London throughout the year to mark this historic anniversary, but over the next six weeks, New York steps up to commemorate the founding, 200 years ago, of one of the world’s most illustrious music institutions. During…

50 ballets, 159 performances, 21 weeks of dance – New York City Ballet celebrates its 50th anniversary at Lincoln Center in spectacular style.  The Company’s  2013-14 season includes 22 works by Co-Founder George Balanchine, 7 by Co-Founding Choreographer Jerome Robbins, and ballets by Mauro Bigonzetti, William Forsythe, Peter Martins, Benjamin Millepied, Justin Peck, Angelin Preljoçaj,…

Piano virtuoso Yefim Bronfman arrives in San Francisco this week, at the start of a series of engagements in which he’ll visit four North American cities.  The tour includes performances with the San Francisco Symphony, the NAC Orchestra in Ottawa, the New York Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, all of which will feature one…

The fourth annual San Francisco Dance Film Festival opens in the city on September 12th, and this year, for the first time, the Festival will be produced in collaboration with world-renowned European media arts organization, IMZ – International Music + Media Center. IMZ is the global association for all those involved in any aspect of…

Monaco’s Consulate General and Tourist Office in New York is currently hosting a fascinating photographic retrospective, Timeless Monaco, at The Forbes Galleries on Fifth Avenue.  A combined presentation of two exhibitions – Monte-Carlo Legends and Forever Monte-Carlo – it celebrates the elegance, style and allure of Monaco, which has endured since the Principality was first…

New York ballet company, Tom Gold Dance, is to perform in the Stars of Ballet season at El Auditorio del Museo Guggenheim in Bilbao next week.  Part of the programme Works & Process at the Guggenheim, it will be the fifth time that the company has been invited to Spain to participate in this event.…

The 2013 Lucerne Festival opens on August 16th, and this year celebrates not only its 75th anniversary, but the 10th anniversary of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Academy.  Special jubilee celebrations will take place on August 25th, in and around the KKL Luzern (Culture and Convention Centre), 75 years to the day…

Wendy Whelan is thrilling audiences at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival this week with a complete departure from the roles in which she normally appears as a principal dancer of New York City Ballet.  Aptly titled Restless Creature, this suite of contemporary duets enables one of today’s most celebrated ballerinas to pursue a new outlet for…

San Francisco’s de Young Museum hosts an unusual residency over the coming month, as artist Peggy Gyulai turns an exhibition space into an artist’s studio, in which visitors can watch what she describes as “a living, breathing, working artist interpreting the lyrical qualities of music on canvas”. Peggy’s works of art are, literally, inspired by…

The Bolshoi Ballet, with the Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre, returns to the Royal Opera House this month to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Company’s first visit to Covent Garden under the banner of Victor Hochhauser.  In a season which includes three grand classics  – Swan Lake, La Bayadère and Sleeping Beauty – the…