On Saturday, February 6, 2010, ClassicalMusicAmerica.com will be making changes on how we deliver your music stream.  Listeners who access our music from the website will be unaffected.  Listeners who tune in via WindowsMedia.com or iTunes.com may experience no music during a 24 hour period as the new stream “propagates” throughout the world.  It is especially important that listeners who have our website “bookmarked” or remembered on their computer as a “favorite”, be sure to update the new address of the new stream.  As always, we welcome your questions and comments at:  info@ClassicalMusicAmerica.com.  We hope that you enjoy our improvements.  Thank you for listening.  This year marks our 10th anniversary and we are proud to serve you.

Peter Oundjian conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Shai Wosner on piano.  Wosner debuts in Mozart’s powerful and tragic Piano Concerto No. 20.  Other performance highlights include Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol and Vaughan Williams’ Symphony No. 5.  The concerts will take place at Chicago’s Symphony Center on February 4th, 6th and 9th.  For more information, please visit cso.org.

This three-concert series features Emanuel Ax on the piano.  Cellist Yo-Yo Ma joins him the first night performing works by Schumann and Chopin.  Peter Leiberson has written a new piece for Emanuel Ax and Yo-Yo Ma called “Remembering Schumann”.  The second evening, a solo recital by Emanuel Ax, includes another premiere of a work by Thomas Ades called “Three Mazurkas”, and also features works by Schumann and Chopin.  Soprano Dawn Upshaw joins Emanuel Ax on the third night for the American premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s New Work for Soprano, Piano and Hyper-accordion.  Scheduled performances are January 29, February 10, and March 17 at Carnegie Hall in New York, NY.  For more information, please visit carnegiehall.org.

Many of you have said that you have had a difficult time finding the music that you have wanted to buy locally, and have been hesitant to order from certain sites online.  We have researched your concerns and are now able to offer an extensive inventory of Classical Music from a reputable source, Arkiv Music.  You may have seen their ads in many publications including the New York Times.  Now, just click on the Gold Button on the top of our page and you’ll be redirected to their website to browse and to order, if you wish.  And, by ordering from our site, you’ll support ClassicalMusicAmerica.com too.  Please let us know your comments on this new service.  Thanks for listening!