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...hear it's so relaxed you can bump into the stars around the town afterward." The stars will perform, solo and in combination, in 29 mostly intimate concerts under the blue-and-white tent. But the festival's undoubted highlight will be a 12-piece superorchestra, featuring violin maestros like Vadim Repin, Sarah Chang and Gidon Kremer, along with eight top-flight pianists, among them Evgeny Kissin, Martha Argerich and Mikhail Pletnev. The July 22 performance will be the starriest classical concert in living memory - four of the world's major TV companies will be there to record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hills Are Alive ... | 7/20/2003 | See Source »

Some years ago, Ernest Fleischmann, the feisty chief of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, proposed a "Community of Musicians," a kind of superorchestra that would provide all of a city's musical needs, from performances of Mahler to string quartets in the schools to playing at weddings and bar mitzvahs. For it is only when the orchestra is seen not as a careerist battleground for carpetbagging conductors but as a vital part of the community, bringing music to a wide and diverse public, that its survival will be assured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is The Symphony Orchestra Dying? | 7/12/1993 | See Source »

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