Symphony News

Tonight, May 24 and May 25 & 26, the Houston Symphony welcomes audiences of all ages and musical backgrounds to an exciting performance with the eclectic "little orchestra," Pink Martini.

The North Carolina Symphony, led by Resident Conductor and Summerfest Artistic Director William Henry Curry, launches the 2013 Rex Healthcare Summerfest Series on Saturday, May 25, at 7:30 p.m. at Cary's Booth Amphitheatre.

The concert will also feature on Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 22. That means the CSO's former music director will share the stage with its new one, a symbolic handing off of the baton.

Grammy-nominated singer and pianist Michael Feinstein will join Principal Pops Conductor Michael Krajewski and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for an evening of favorites from the American Songbook tonight, May 24 and tomorrow, May 25, 2013, at 8:00 p.m., in Atlanta Symphony Hall at the Woodruff Arts Center.

The Texas Ballet Theater will perform with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra next season for the first time since budget issues forced the ballet company to discontinue dancing to live music almost five years ago.

The Oakland-East Bay Symphony is playing a tribute to Bay Area resident jazz legend Dave Brubeck, who died last year at the age of 92.

Wednesday night at a few minutes before 10, they took off, like ghosts flying in through a window: the sounds of Ravel's "La Valse," performed by the San Francisco Symphony at Davies Symphony Hall.

Oakland East Bay Symphony's "Saints and Sinners" closed the 2012-13 season with proof that earthly and heavenly sojourns follow not only vertical, but perpendicular paths.

The issue and performance of previously unpublished musical works - juvenilia, early pieces, and even completions by others of music left by composers, for one reason or another, incomplete - always provokes interesting debate.

Last night Phish front man Trey Anastasio performed with the esteemed National Symphony Orchestra at the historic Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Anastasio mixed classics from both his solo and Phish repertoire over the course of two sets and an encore.

THINK of symphonies at Winchester Cathedral and you can't help but imagine sounds of grand orchestras booming through the halls.

It was called the "seventh engineering wonder of the world," a herculean effort to reverse the flow of the Chicago River.

In an effort to promote Hello Bank's mobile platform, the company launched a 'Mobile Concerto' campaign where a symphony is played using only mobile devices.

The June issue of Gramophone is on sale now, in which we reveal the Hall of Fame 2013 .

Both romance and high energy are hallmarks in Saturday evening's Baltimore Symphony Orchestra concert at the Music Center at Strathmore.

Performers from two of the Flint Cultural Center's most active organizations will join forces for a collection of concerts that begins next weekend.

Music director Edo de Waart will lead the orchestra in a program of Johannes Brahms' first and fourth symphonies Friday through Sunday and then wrap up with Edward Elgar's "The Dream of Gerontius" the following weekend.

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra completed its 2012-13 Princeton concert series in grand fashion on Friday night with a performance full of precision, operatic flair, and innovative musical composition.

The KZN Philharmonic Orchestra's Winter Symphony Season has opened to a resounding start with conductor Daniel Boico leading the KZNPO in a symphonic illumination of the themes of love, life and death.

For the first time ever, Grammy-winning folk duo the Indigo Girls, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, will embark on a national symphony tour in the United States.