Symphony News

Mark Kanny is the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's classical music critic and can be reached at 412-320-7877 or via e-mail. Briskness, often to an extreme degree, prevailed at Heinz Hall Friday night when Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performed a concert of contrasting halves.

Michael Barnes is the Austin American-Statesman's social columnist. He lives in South Austin with his partner, Kip, two dogs and two cats.

The opening concert of the season sets the tone, launching into this interesting period with Duke Ellington's 'Harlem' and Ferdinand Grofe's famous 'Grand Canyon Suite' on a program with George Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue'' and variations on 'I Got Rhythm.' / ASSOCIATED PRESS The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra recently unveiled its 2012-13 roster ... (more)

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra says its latest "Live from Orchestra Hall" webcast has drawn the largest audience of any live online performance by a U.S. symphonic group.

Cindy McTee's "Einstein's Dream" takes its inspiration from the physicist's search for a grand unification theory.

The San Antonio Symphony , the Mastersingers, soprano Maria Alejandres, mezzo Luretta Bybee, tenor RenA© Barbera and baritone Greer Grimsley, under the direction of Sebastian Lang-Lessing . "Beethoven 8 & 9" repeats at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Majestic Theatre downtown.

The Chautauqua Regional Youth Symphony will continue its silver anniversary season Sunday with a performance at Jamestown Community College.

Winter reared its ugly head with icy roads and accidents everywhere as rush hour became slip and slide two hours.

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra has seen many fine guest conductors this season as it searches for a new music director.

U.S. jazz singer Natalie Cole performs during her concert at the Torwar arena in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, July 16, 2007.

The Santa Barbara Symphony , under Music Director Nir Kabaretti , will offer a rarity, even in this enlightened age - an all-American program that includes not a single march by John Philip Sousa .

After crooning "Nothin' But A Good Time," the former Poison frontman ' who has never attained Grammy gold ' jokingly announced onstage at a Grammy Foundation event Thursday that he was on the prowl to nab a trophy.

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra welcomed a different crowd of music fans Thursday night.

Beethoven's Concerto for Piano No. 2, Lars Vogt, piano, 7:30 p.m. Thursday and 8 p.m. Feb.

Saturday night the Salisbury Symphony is performing a concert. That's right, the Salisbury Symphony.

The memory of Auburn Symphony conductor Michael Goodwin will be honored Saturday when the orchestra performs a scheduled Kinderkonzert at Placer High School Auditorium, 275 Orange St.

Just about every week, conductor Sandra Dackow hops in her car and drives three hours to central Pennsylvania, where she presides over a rehearsal with members of the Hershey Symphony Orchestra .

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra will present a brand-new Cirque de la Symphonie show on Saturday, Feb.

This month, both will be featured in two concerts in one week. On Feb. 16, the symphony will be joined by the Southern Miss School of Music woodwind faculty and on Feb.

Idina Menzel 's new PBS concert special, "Barefoot at the Symphony" - filmed in Toronto on November 17-18, 2011 with the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony at Koerner Hall - features husband Taye Diggs and legendary composer/conductor Marvin Hamlisch .