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"  Yaniv Segal, Conducting Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550, by Mozart A conductor. A cofounder of New York&amp;#039;s Chelsea Symphony. A veteran of Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and other storied digs. An advocate of blowing the roof off the joint. &amp;quot;I try to interact with the audience as much as possible. One reason classical music is so stigmatized is because of all that stiff orchestra stuff. If those guys aren&amp;#039;t excited playing it, how the hell are you going to get excited listening to it?&amp;quot;      Yaniv Segal conducts the Sibelius Violin Concerto in D Minor with the Chelsea Symphony at St. Paul Lutheran Church in New York City. Famed Russian Violinist Julia Sakharova performs the lead. Click here to view Yaniv&amp;#039;s Website and hear him conduct Mendelssohn&amp;#039;s Symphony No. 3.  Huang Ruo, Holding Sheet Music for His Own Composition, &amp;quot;Shattered Steps&amp;quot;  A composer. A mix master of Western and Chinese melodies. A new staple of orchestras from Albany to Amsterdam and even a few cities in his native China. &amp;quot;This is all about sound, right? It doesn&amp;#039;t matter if it&amp;#039;s electronic music or percussion or what we hear when we walk outside: Everything creates sound. My job is to figure out how to use that sound.&amp;quot; Click here to view Huang Ruo&amp;#039;s Website.  Joshua Bell, Performing Selections from &amp;quot;The Red Violin,&amp;quot; by John Corigliano  A violinist. A child prodigy made good. A winner of a Grammy and a Mercury Prize. A close approximation to an international superstar. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s a reason our music is called classical. People aren&amp;#039;t listening to it because it&amp;#039;s trendy; they&amp;#039;re listening to it because it has stood the test of time. It&amp;#039;ll never go out of style; it&amp;#039;ll always be current; it&amp;#039;ll always be now.&amp;quot;        In a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post Magazine story from April 2007, violinist Joshua Bell played at a D.C. Metro stop during rush hour to test if commuters would stop to watch a world-class musician perform. Click here to view Joshua Bell&amp;#039;s Website.  Gilles Vonsattel, Performing &amp;quot;Gaspard De La Nuit,&amp;quot; by Maurice Ravel  A pianist. A regular with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. An owner of two synthesizers who still pounds away on a Steinway. &amp;quot;Electronic instruments can replicate just about any sound a piano can make, but the touch, the feel, the understanding of the mechanics of a piano? Nothing can replace that.&amp;quot;       Gilles Vonsattel and the Orchestre de Chambre de Gen\u00E8ve play Beethoven Concerto No. 5 at the Grand Th\u00E9\u00E2tre.  Daniel Bernard Roumain, Performing Variations on &amp;quot;While My Guitar Gently Weeps,&amp;quot; by George Harrison  A violinist. A composer. A frontman of a touring group called DBR &amp;amp;amp; the Mission. A solo performer who named his debut album Etudes 4 Violin &amp;amp;amp; Electronix. A guy who&amp;#039;s rethinking that whole electro thing. &amp;quot;Old fashion is the new fashion. I&amp;#039;m moving away from technology and getting back to a good old-fashioned four-string violin. We&amp;#039;re going to see a real return to the purity of sound unaffected by electronics.&amp;quot;       Daniel Bernard Roumain plays his signature song, &amp;quot;Filter.&amp;quot; Click here to view Daniel Bernard Roumain&amp;#039;s MySpace page to hear more music.  Pascual Martinez-Forteza, Performing Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27, by Rachmaninoff  A clarinetist with the New York Philharmonic. A founder of Vent Cameristic, an ensemble made up entirely of musicians from his native Spain. A man who thinks that personal style matters. &amp;quot;All you have to do is look to some classical-music CD covers to see how image is important these days. Twenty-first-century musicians are mixing fashion with their music all the time, and it helps people who&amp;#039;ve never listened to this kind of music get close to it. It also means it&amp;#039;s easier to get a date.&amp;quot;      A Spanish-language &amp;quot;day in the life&amp;quot; documentary of Pascual Martinez-Forteza, including a performance with the New York Philharmonic. Click here to view Pascual Martinez-Forteza&amp;#039;s Website.  Robert Black, Performing His Own Composition, &amp;quot;Swoodsh&amp;quot;  A double bassist. A member of Bang on a Can All-Stars, an avant-garde instrumental collective based in New York. A believer in synthesis, synergy, and all manner of mash-up. &amp;quot;We work with people from all different musical worlds -- from experimental jazz to Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth -- but all of us have our roots in the classical world. The thrill of it is working with people from other traditions and seeing what comes from that.&amp;quot;      A performance of &amp;quot;Stroking Piece,&amp;quot; written by Thurston Moore, performed by The Bang on a Can All-Stars and Thurston Moore on guitar. Click here to view the Website for the Band on a Can All-Stars  Ethos Percussion Group, Performing &amp;quot;Drumming: Part I,&amp;quot; by Steve Rich  A foursome. A highly orchestrated outfit that makes symphonies entirely out of beats. A friend to the establishment (members have collaborated with Philip Glass and Yo-Yo Ma, among others) and a leader in rhythmic experimentation. Says member Trey Files: &amp;quot;When concert series are putting together their annual programs, we&amp;#039;re sort of the freak element. They&amp;#039;ll have all these traditional classical performers, and then they bring out these four percussionists with bongos. People are like, What?&amp;quot;       The Ethos Percussion Group plays the last five minutes of an original work, &amp;quot;The Persistence of Past Chemistries&amp;quot; at the Symphony Space in New York City. Click here to visit the Ethos Percussion Group&amp;#039;s Website.  Matthew Muckey, Performing Trumpet Concerto in F Minor, Op. 18, by Oskar B\u00F6hme  A trumpeter. A newcomer to the New York Philharmonic, where, at twenty-three, he&amp;#039;s the youngest player in the pit. A man who thinks that good things come to those who wait. &amp;quot;Classical music offers a depth and complexity that pop or rock doesn&amp;#039;t usually have. Instead of hearing a catchy melody and intermittent verses four times in three minutes, you listen for a while to the buildup, and then, once you&amp;#039;ve earned it, you get the gorgeous melody. It&amp;#039;s not about instant gratification -- it&amp;#039;s a journey.&amp;quot; Click here to view Matthew Muckey&amp;#039;s biography page on the New York Philharmonic&amp;#039;s Website. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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