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    Andreas Paolo Perger (category Electroacoustic improvisation)
    and improvisations. Another collaboration in this context took place with classical cellist Adrian Brendel. Concerts with contemporary improvisers such...
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    considered one of the cornerstones of western music. First performed in Vienna's Theater an der Wien in 1808, the work achieved its prodigious reputation...
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  • Band Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra Globe Unity Orchestra The Vinny Golia Large Ensemble Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band Hard Rubber Orchestra Julius Hemphill...
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    Tbilisi Chamber Orchestra when she was 6 and appeared internationally at age 10. She studied in Tbilisi with Tengiz Amirejibi and in Vienna with Oleg Maisenberg...
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  • The Florida Symphony Youth Orchestras (FSYO) is a music education program in Central Florida, consisting of six primary ensembles with nearly 300 student...
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    especially older horns, use piston valves (similar to a trumpet's) and the Vienna horn uses double-piston valves, or pumpenvalves. The backward-facing orientation...
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    Morning Three O'Clock in the Morning, performed by Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra for Victor Records Problems playing this file? See media help. Paul Samuel...
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  • Symphony Orchestra under Paavo Järvi and principal flute of the Vienna Symphony under Fabio Luisi. Choi served as Principal Flute of the Vienna Symphony...
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    performed as guest with the London Improvisers Orchestra as electronic voice, attracted by the roots of free improvisation From 1995 to 2000 he participated...
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    compositions for solo piano and orchestra. These works, many of which Mozart composed for himself to play in the Vienna concert series of 1784–86, held...
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    Friedrich Gulda (category Musicians from Vienna)
    and composer who worked in both the classical and jazz fields. Born in Vienna the son of a teacher, Gulda began learning to play the piano at age 7 with...
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    to all major orchestras in Austria, with a particular association with the Vienna Philharmonic. Calls for a music conservatory in Vienna started in 1808...
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    Big band (redirect from Jazz orchestra)
    of the big bands. Examples include the Vienna Art Orchestra, founded in 1977, and the Italian Instabile Orchestra, active in the 1990s. In the late 1990s...
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    The last major orchestra to appoint a woman to a permanent position was the Berlin Philharmonic. As late as February 1996, the Vienna Philharmonic's principal...
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    Anton Bruckner (category Organ improvisers)
    maligned in Vienna in his lifetime, now have an important place in the tradition and musical repertoire of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. The life of...
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    and contrast within a piece became more pronounced than before, and the orchestra increased in size, range, and power. The harpsichord was replaced as the...
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  • Classical Western music and Arabic improvisation, and was concertmaster for Daniel Barenboim’s ‘West-Eastern Divan Orchestra’ (1999- 2002). Furthermore, he...
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    has been music director of the Vienna-based New Cosmos Philharmonic. The orchestra is featured as the festival orchestra at the annual New Cosmos International...
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    Joe Zawinul (category Burials at the Vienna Central Cemetery)
    Czech State Philharmonic Orchestra, Brno, conducted by Caspar Richter. Zawinul became ill and was hospitalized in his native Vienna on 7 August 2007, after...
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  • variations of Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini for piano and orchestra presents a terse summary of Paganini’s original theme. Many composers...
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    conductor of the Gewandhaus Orchestra (1922–26), and was a guest conductor of other major orchestras including the Vienna Philharmonic. Although not an...
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    world's top orchestras, including the London Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, and Philadelphia Orchestra. Yitzhak-Meir...
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    Beethoven concert of 22 December 1808 (category Events in Vienna)
    1998) Royal Scottish National Orchestra (August 2001) Mostly Mozart Festival (August 2007) Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (22 December 2008) Festival de...
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    Hans Rott (category Composers from Vienna)
    Prelude for Orchestra. He figures in the murder mystery Requiem in Vienna by J. Sydney Jones. Symphony in A flat major for string orchestra (1874–75) Menuet...
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  • served as music director of "Hollywood In Vienna" Gala Concerts with the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vienna. He has also served as music director and...
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    his native country, "Introduction to Music Technology", "Improvisation for Non-Improvisers" Parts I & II & "World Music I: Introduction to The Classical...
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  • composed First Airphonic Suite for Theremin and Orchestra, which premièred with the Cleveland Orchestra with Leon Theremin as soloist.[citation needed]...
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  • From No Time to Rag Time (category Vienna Art Orchestra live albums)
    From No Time to Rag Time is an album by European jazz group the Vienna Art Orchestra featuring variations on compositions by Anthony Braxton, Ornette Coleman...
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    is dedicated to Hans Richter, who was the conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. With a performance time of approximately 40 minutes, the four-movement...
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    classical pieces with his own vocal improvisations, often with participation from the audience and the orchestra. For example, the concerts often end...
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