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Spring For Music: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

Strings perform Muse by Christopher Theofanidis during the second half of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra The New Brandenburgs at the Spring for Music festival at Carnegie Hall in Manhattan, New York on May 06, 2011. Melanie Burford for NPR hide caption

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Classics in Concert

Spring For Music: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

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May 6, 2011 • The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra has spearheaded a novel project designed to help bridge past and present: It commissioned six composers to write companion pieces for Bach's six Brandenburg Concertos.

Classics in Concert

Robert Schumann Reconsidered at Carnegie Hall

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June 17, 2008 • Schumann's Piano Concerto was the result of a major rewrite. Paul Chihara did a little reworking of his own on Schumann's Overture, Scherzo and Finale. The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra plays both remodeled pieces at Carnegie Hall.

Robert Schumann Reconsidered at Carnegie Hall

Classics in Concert

Bach and Beyond: Orpheus Plays Carnegie Hall

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March 11, 2008 • The adventuresome Orpheus Chamber Orchestra introduces its newest commission, a companion piece to J. S. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, the second installment in the series called "The New Brandenburgs."

Bach and Beyond: Orpheus Plays Carnegie Hall

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