The Carnegie Hall audience for Orpheus Chamber Orchestra's Spring for Music program on Friday, May 6.
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Orpheus Chamber Orchestra presented 'The New Brandenburgs,' a project in which it commissioned six composers to write companion pieces for Bach's Brandenburg Concertos.
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Flutist Elizabeth Mann and pianist Christopher Taylor perform 'Sea Orpheus' by Peter Maxwell Davies.
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String players of Orpheus stand while playing Christopher Theofanidis's 'Muse' during the Orpheus concert Friday night.
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A view from the 'Maestro Suite' high above the Carnegie Hall stage
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Crowds arrive for the Toledo Symphony Orchestra's appearance at Carnegie Hall on May 7. Some 1,400 fans from Toledo came to the concert.
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Fans from Toledo wave red hankerchiefs in the audience before the Toledo Symphony and conductor Stefan Sanderling.
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Stefan Sanderling, principal conductor of the Toledo Symphony conducts Shostakovich's Symphony No. 6 at Carnegie Hall.
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Benjamin Pryor, left, and David De Christopher, right, performing 'Every Good Boy Deserves Favour' by Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn. The Toledo Symphony and Stefan Sanderling are in the background.
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Peter Cross, left, and Benjamin Pryor, right, performing 'Every Good Boy Deserves Favour' with the Toledo Symphony and Stefan Sanderling.
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'Every Good Boy Deserves Favour' by Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn, performed by The Toledo Symphony and conductor Stefan Sanderling.
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Stefan Sanderling, center, principal conductor with the Toledo Symphony at Carnegie Hall.
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The Albany Symphony Orchestra takes the stage at Carnegie Hall to perform a program of American spirituals.
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Baritone Nathan De’Shon Myers joins the Albany Symphony and conductor David Allan Miller.
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Conductor David Allan Miller bows to baritone soloist Nathan De’Shon Myers.
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The Albany Symphony from behind-the-scenes at Carnegie Hall.
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The hometown crowd from Dallas shows their support by waving their colors in the air.
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The Dallas Symphony Orchestra performs Steven Stucky's August 4, 1964.
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Music Director Jaap van Zweden leads soloists Indira Mahajan (soprano), Kristine Jepson (mezzo-soprano), Vale Rideout (tenor), Rod Gilfry (baritone) and the Dallas Symphony.
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Tenor Vale Rideout and baritone Rod Gilfry perform soloists as President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert Gates in Steven Stucky's August 4, 1964.
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An usher holds Spring for Music programs in Carnegie Hall.
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The hometown crowd from Oregon creates a palpable excitement in the hall, showing their support with green handkerchiefs.
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Music director Carlos Kalmar conducts the Oregon Symphony in their Carnegie Hall debut.
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Music director Carlos Kalmar conducts the Oregon Symphony in their Carnegie Hall debut.
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Jazz composer Maria Schneider leads the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in her first composition, 'Carlos Drummond de Andrade Stories' at Carnegie Hall.
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Dawn Upshaw was the soloist in Maria Schneider's 'Carlos Drummond de Andrade Stories.'
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The violinists and violist of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra stood to play Stravinsky's Concerto in D for strings
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Kent Nagano conducts the Montréal Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall
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Members of the brass section of the Montréal Symphony Orchestra
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Members of the string section of the Montréal Symphony Orchestra
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Kent Nageno evokes a range of emotion from the Montréal Symphony Orchestra at Spring for Music
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