2023 New Year Concert

Ruggiero Ricci (* July 24, 1918 in San Bruno, California; † August 6, 2012 in Palm Springs) was an American violinist.

"This year, Sarah Connor is presenting a very special album edition for the festival: The extended Christmas album "Not So Silent Night – The Cozy Edition" – supplemented by three brand new titles for the holidays and the New Year. The core of the new edition are the 13 songs from the acclaimed original album "Not So Silent Night", which went straight to number 1 a year ago.

Marco Tiso studied composition with G. Piazza at the Conservatorio di S. Cecilia in Rome, deepening the jazz language with E. Pieranunzi, G. Iacoucci and B. Tommaso, and arrangement and orchestration techniques with G. Gazzani.

The Herman Krebbers Edition offers the most comprehensive collection ever issued of the recorded art of Herman Krebbers (1923–2018) featuring the great Dutch violinist as concerto soloist, chamber musician and concert master and issued to mark the centenary of his birth.

This 1982 Darlene Love performance highlights her triumphant re-emergence as a solo artist and features many of her best-known hits from the 1960s. In her early career, Darlene Love was one of pop music's all-time busiest and most respected backup singers. But by the 1980s she had emerged under her own name as an accomplished actress and concert performer. This previously unavailable 1982 concert makes its debut on CD, DVD and digital, documenting a series of shows that affected her career transition. \n\nDarlene was heard on countless 1960's hit recordings, ranging from Bobby "Boris" Pickett's "Monster Mash" to Frank Sinatra's "That's Life," and performed live with headliners on the scale of Elvis Presley, Tom Jones, and Dionne Warwick. She lent her voice to a series of hits, including the Crystals' "He's A Rebel" and "Da Doo Ron Ron," The Ronettes' "Be My Baby," and Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans' "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah", as well as releasing singles under her own name. \n\nAfter appearing in 1981 at Righteous Brother Bill Medley's club, Darlene was invited to perform at a private Hollywood New Year's Eve party, with a band, the Monte Carlos, formed specifically to back her. As a result of the buzz, an engagement was made for April 21, 1982, at the prestigious L.A. area jazz club Hop Singh's, from which this set is taken.

Natalie is an active recitalist and champion of contemporary music, which has allowed her to work with living composers on albums and sing on the world premiere opera recording of “The Mask in the Mirror” by Richard Thompson.

The Rome Symphony Orchestra will make history at their next concert. For the first time in its 100-year run as the “oldest symphony in the South”, the orchestra will make a commercially available recording of a live performance. Music for a New Year: Bach, Berlioz and Beethoven.

The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) will release an album of George Walker’s five sinfonias, conducted by Music Director Gianandrea Noseda, on September 8, 2023. The recording project celebrates NSO’s connection to Walker—the first African American composer to receive a Pulitzer Prize and a D.C. native—and honors his centennial, which was in 2022.