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Cross-cultural cross currents: Jasdeep Singh Degun with Fantasia Orchestra in Terry Riley’s iconic In C performed by string orchestra, piano, sitar and tabla at Smith Square Hall Gregory Spears opera Fellow Travelers celebrates its 10th anniversary with a nationwide USA tour collaborating with the Lavender Names Project In Paradisum: Gabriel Durliat Bridging worlds: premiere of Eleanor Alberga’s Symphony No. 2 by Academy of St Martin in the Fields alongside music by Grazyna Bacewicz, Florence Price, Carolyn Shaw Elaborate vocal lines, aching beauty & expressive pain: The Portrait Players & Dame Emma Kirkby in I Voci Segreti.
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John Williams, in wheelchair, greets the LA Phil

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John Williams, in wheelchair, greets the LA Phil

Pictures have reached us from Friday night’s John Williams concert at the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Walt Disney Hall.

The veteran composer, 93, made what was described as a ‘surprise appearance’ after a performance of his cello concerto by Yo Yo Ma, followed by selections from his film music conducted by Gustavo Dudamel.

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Cross-cultural cross currents: Jasdeep Singh Degun with Fantasia Orchestra in Terry Riley's iconic In C performed by string orchestra, piano, sitar and tabla at Smith Square Hall

Cross-cultural cross currents: Jasdeep Singh Degun with Fantasia Orchestra in Terry Riley’s iconic In C performed by string orchestra, piano, sitar and tabla at Smith Square Hall

Gregory Spears opera Fellow Travelers celebrates its 10th anniversary with a nationwide USA tour collaborating with the Lavender Names Project

Gregory Spears opera Fellow Travelers celebrates its 10th anniversary with a nationwide USA tour collaborating with the Lavender Names Project

In Paradisum: Gabriel Durliat

Bridging worlds: premiere of Eleanor Alberga's Symphony No. 2 by Academy of St Martin in the Fields alongside music by Grazyna Bacewicz, Florence Price, Carolyn Shaw

Bridging worlds: premiere of Eleanor Alberga’s Symphony No. 2 by Academy of St Martin in the Fields alongside music by Grazyna Bacewicz, Florence Price, Carolyn Shaw

Elaborate vocal lines, aching beauty & expressive pain: The Portrait Players & Dame Emma Kirkby in I Voci Segreti.

Elaborate vocal lines, aching beauty & expressive pain: The Portrait Players & Dame Emma Kirkby in I Voci Segreti.

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