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Soprano Irene Cummings, whose lengthy career included regular appearances on Tennessee Ernie Ford's primetime variety program The Ford Show in the late 1950s through 1961, has bequeathed her 16-acre Santa Paula avocado ranch to the Music Academy of the West

Santa Barbara philanthropists Shirley and Seymour Lehrer have announced plans to donate $3 million in support of ongoing programmatic and facility upgrades at the Music Academy of the West

The Music Academy of the West will close out its 61st Summer Festival with a special community performance of Gustav Mahler's sweeping Symphony No. 3 in D Minor August 16 at The Granada

Renowned for their dazzling virtuosity and freewheeling performance style, the Canadian Brass will bring their unique blend of consummate musicianship and wit to the Lobero Theatre on Saturday, August 11

Soprano Simone Osborne, baritone Edward Parks, and pianist In Sun Suh have been named the winners of this year's Marilyn Horne Foundation Vocal Competition

Trailblazing conductor Anne Manson will lead the Academy Chamber Orchestra in a program of works by Ives, Pēteris Vasks, Stravinsky, and Haydn at Santa Barbara's First Presbyterian Church on Saturday, August 9

The Music Academy of the West will present a fully staged production of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer William Bolcom's comic opera 'A Wedding' at the Lobero Theatre on Friday, August 8, and on Sunday, August 10

Celebrated mezzo-soprano and Academy Voice Program Director Marilyn Horne will lead a vocal masterclass at 3 pm Saturday, August 2, in Santa Barbara's Lobero Theatre

The Music Academy of the West's annual Chamber Music Marathon will take place from 10 am to 5 pm Saturday, August 2, in Hahn Hall

Acclaimed composer and pianist William Bolcom will headline a trio of events as part of a two-week residency at the Music Academy of the West

Having bested the field at this year's Concerto Competition Finals, four accomplished instrumentalists will take featured soloist turns with the Academy Festival Orchestra at the Lobero Theatre on Saturday, July 26

The Academy Brass Ensemble will present a free concert at the Music Academy of the West's newly renovated Hahn Hall on Wednesday, July 23

Rare are the artists who routinely garner the most sweeping of superlatives. Rarer still are those whose transcendence is accepted as an uncontested article of faith among critics and fellow artists alike

The public is invited to attend a free chamber music recital featuring local students at the Music Academy of the West on Friday, July 18

The Music Academy of the West will open its gates to the public on Wednesday, July 16, for a day of compelling classical music events amid the lush gardens of the Academy's storied Miraflores campus

The Music Academy of the West will present its 2008 masterclass sampler at 7:30 pm on Thursday, July 10

Conductor Nicholas McGegan will enliven Santa Barbara's Lobero Theatre with his trademark infectious energy on Saturday, July 19

Michele Brustin, a former arts advocacy administrator who went on to become a successful television executive and producer, has been named to the Board of Directors for the Music Academy of the West

Those who have come under the spell of Olivier Messiaen's otherworldly "Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus" are often hard-pressed to give a rational account of the experience

Accumulating plaudits from adoring reviewers is simply a regular part of Warren Jones' busy performance schedule

Pioneered by legendary soprano Lotte Lehmann in the early years of the Music Academy of the West, the masterclass is widely considered the quintessential Academy experience

The Music Academy of the West is poised to launch an innovative performance series that will challenge traditional conceptions of chamber music by highlighting the venerable genre's vast – and often overlooked – compositional range

The Music Academy of the West today hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for Hahn Hall, the Academy's newly renovated on-campus recital facility

Acclaimed conductor Larry Rachleff will lead the Academy Festival Orchestra in its first concert of the Music Academy's 2008 Summer Festival season at the Lobero Theatre on Saturday, June 28

Further solidifying its stature as a leading destination for outstanding classical music events, the Music Academy will broadcast live performances by the Metropolitan Opera at the Academy's newly refurbished Hahn Hall beginning in October