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The venerated string quartet makes a stop on its 50th anniversary tour to play music from the dawn of the string quartet era right up to the present.

Some of the Italian composer's most memorable film scores were recorded at Forum Studios in Rome's Parioli neighborhood.

Routinely called a "musician's musician," the pianist had an atypical career that even he called mysterious. He spent it returning to a handful of favorite composers, with acclaimed results.

Myung-Whun Chung will be one of the first non-Italians to take the post of music director at Milan's famous opera house.