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🎻 Classical Crescendo 🎹 | Discover the magic of classical music. Explore timeless masterpieces and stories. Join our journey! 🎼✨ #ClassicalMusic 👉 Follow us on: https://linktr.ee/classical.crescendo
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💧 The rain falls. Behind the glass, a piano remembers what love forgot. Waltz Funèbre in C Minor – “Empty Ballroom” — a dance for no one, where echoes waltz with silence. Full piece on YouTube: youtu.be/9VdJpF4SU1o

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Waltz funebre in C minor - “Empty Ballroom”, Classical Crescendo, Piano
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#Opera Grand River Opera opens its 2025/26 season with Mozart’s Idomeneo, Oct 16–18 in Kitchener—starring an all-Canadian cast. Planning to go? Share your favorite Idomeneo moment below. #Mozart #ClassicalMusic
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#Theatre Tarragon Theatre’s Bremen Town is a rollicking fairytale that swings from silly to dark, asking: what happens when we’re deemed too old to be useful? A sharp, funny ride with heart. Seen it yet? Share your take. #Toronto #Review
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#Film Forest City Film Festival and Artsmote present silent classic The Hands of Orlac with a new live score by composer Scott Good. A rare chance to experience cinema as it began. Want details? Ask below. #SilentFilm #LiveScore
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#Opera A new take on Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette at Canadian Opera Company leans hard on familiar tropes—clichés in libretto, music, and staging—making for an enervating three-hour sugar fest. Did it hit or miss for you? #Review #Toronto
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#ClassicalMusic London violinist Alina Ibragimova moves from Hyperion to BIS, kicking off with Beethoven violin sonatas on period instruments with Cédric Tiberghien. With Hyperion under UMG and BIS under Apple Music, it’s a mid-season switch. Weigh in below. #MusicNews #MusicBiz
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#News Einstein’s childhood violin sold for £860,000 ($1.15m) at Dominic Winter Auctioneers in Gloucestershire — reportedly a record for a non-pedigree instrument. Made in 1894 by Mittenwald luthier Anton Zunterer; Einstein gifted it to physicist Max von Laue in 1932. #Music #History Thoughts?
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#ClassicalMusic Nippon Music Foundation loans the 1714 "Dolphin" Stradivari—once played by Jascha Heifetz—to Canadian violinist Timothy Chooi. He also has the 1741 "Titan" Guarneri and a 1761 Landolfi on loan. Should elite violins rotate more widely? #Violin #Stradivari
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#ClassicalMusic Shock at the Chopin Competition: Polish commentator Adam Rozlach says an international jury, chaired by an American, cut Poland’s touted favorite, 21-year-old Mateusz Dubiel, after Stage 1. Out of 13 Poles, only four advanced. Thoughts on the jury’s call? #ChopinCompetition #Poland
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#ClassicalMusic Kennedy Center shake-up: Sources say NSO will play the U.S. national anthem before every concert this season. The center also removed over half the terrace trees by the Potomac without public explanation. Thoughts? #KennedyCenter #DC
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#ClassicalMusic Esa-Pekka Salonen—incoming chief conductor of the Orchestre de Paris—gets a 550-page biography. Finland’s folk hero shares his life, ideas, and musical influences with wit and clarity. Out now. What are your favorite Salonen moments? #Books #Biography
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#Art Trailblazer Helene Kröller-Müller built an 11,500-work modern art collection—including 220 Van Goghs—and championed the Neo-Impressionists. Her museum’s finest pieces are in London for the National Gallery’s “Radical Harmony,” on view through February. Share your thoughts. #Exhibition #London
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#Opera La Fenice cancels Friday’s Wozzeck opener as staff and musicians strike over Beatrice Venezi’s appointment as music director. Peers across Italy signal solidarity. What’s your take on the standoff? #ClassicalMusic #Italy
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#News Former Opera Carolina head James Meena posts a video denying financial misconduct, calling claims he “stole money” and delayed La Bohème payments “simply untrue.” He led the company since 2000; both sides are heading to litigation. Thoughts? #Opera #Arts
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#Immigration Korean-born Utah violinist John Shin, detained by ICE for two weeks and once labeled a criminal, just had his deportation case dropped. A past DUI was cited, but he's now cleared to stay and pursue a green card. What’s your take? #News #ClassicalMusic
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#ClassicalMusic New World Symphony opened 2025–26 at New World Center with Brahms and Bartók. Tianyi Lu drew spacious, expressive playing; Lukáš Vondráček powered through Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 3; Brahms 1 closed in high form. Were you there? Share your take. #NewWorldSymphony #Miami
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London premiere: Sven Helbig’s Requiem A at Central Hall Westminster—four boys’ choirs, London Contemporary Orchestra, René Pape, cond. Martin Lehmann, live electronics and video art. A powerful meditation on loss and renewal. Were you there?
#Choral #London
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#ClassicalMusic Salomon Orchestra launches its Stage and Screen season on Sat 18 Oct at Smith Square Hall with Graham Ross: Rózsa’s Ben-Hur Suite, Kodály’s Háry János Suite, and Rota’s La Strada Suite. More ahead: Ravel, Stravinsky, Bernstein, Prokofiev. Joining? Tell us below. #FilmMusic #London
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#ClassicalMusic Ensemble Caprice’s “Vivaldi: The Four Nations (Reconstructed)” (ATMA Classique, 2025) revives Vivaldi’s nation-themed concertos—La Francia, L’Inghilterra, La Spagna—beside surviving Il Gran Mogol. Directed by Matthias Maute with Sophie Larivière. Heard it yet? #Vivaldi #Baroque
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A near sell-out for Leif Ove Andsnes at Bourgie Hall signals fresh energy for recitals—quite a turn from the half-empty halls of decades past (think Ida Haendel at Place des Arts). Are solo recitals back? Chime in below. #LiveMusic #Montreal
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#Music André Galamba’s self-titled release fuses jazz, funk, and rock into a kinetic, groove-forward set. With keys by David Ryshpan, vocals by Bianca Rocha, and layered percussion, it’s built to move. Out independently in 2025. Want the full review? Drop a comment. #Jazz #AlbumReview
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#Arts UBC School of Music marks 100 years of the Old Auditorium—a beloved stage that has hosted generations of students, alumni, artists, and even politicians. Vancouver’s cultural icon gets its centennial spotlight. Curious to explore further? Share your memories below. #Vancouver #UBC
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#Arts Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra (NACO) opens applications for its Resident Conductor and Mentorship programs (Ottawa, Oct 6, 2025). Train with leaders from a top North American orchestra. Thinking of applying? Ask below. #ClassicalMusic #Canada
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#Music New release review: “i love evil” by soprano Dory Hayley (Red Shift Records, 2025). Two discs—Feldman’s 67‑min Three Voices on Disc 1; four contemporary works on Disc 2. Immersive, exacting vocals for adventurous ears. Want the full review? Ask in the replies. #Classical #NewMusic
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#Giveaway: Win 1 of 5 signed copies of Rachel Podger’s “Just Biber,” featuring Biber’s Sonata Violino Solo and the animal‑imitating Sonata representativa, with Brecon Baroque. Enter by Oct 12, 2025 (NY). Want details? Ask below. #ClassicalMusic #Baroque
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#ClassicalMusic The London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Antonio Pappano release Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 5 & 9 on LSO Live—war-shaped works from the Fifth’s hard-won hope to the Ninth’s resilient aftermath. Part of an ongoing RVW symphony cycle. Heard it yet? #LSO #VaughanWilliams