Symphony News

Colorado Symphony Orchestra artistic adviser Andrew Litton conducts a dress rehearsal of the group's production of Giuseppe Verdi's "Requiem" in February.

Most readers will probably recall that one of the major events of the current season was a series of four recitals that pianist Jonathan Biss presented under the auspices of San Francisco Performances entitled Schumann: Under the Influence .

The singer-songwriter has agreed to perform his 1971 hit with the Portland Symphony Orchestra during city's annual Stars and Stripes celebration on the Eastern Promenade.

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Walton's First Symphony may have been regarded as modern, dissonant and appallingly difficult to play when it was first performed, but the Sydney Symphony made it seem like a perfectly controlled runaway train.

The Yavapai Symphony Association recently presented $16,500 in seven scholarships to area students majoring in music.

A new maestro has been chosen for the Santa Cruz County Symphony, a conductor and violist whose work has touched major orchestras such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the St.

The University of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra returned to Lexington this week after a 14-day concert tour in China where its performances received warm receptions.

The Loudoun Symphony Orchestra's fifth annual "Loudoun's Got Talent: YOUTH EDITION" Finalists Concert will begin at 2 p.m. May 25 at the Franklin Park Arts Center in western Loudoun County.

The Inland Valley Symphony presents its 2012-13 "Season Finale" on Saturday, June 1, at 2 p.m. with a repeat performance at 7. The concert will be held at the Gershwin Performing Arts Center, Murrieta Mesa High School in Murrieta, conducted by Anthony Parnther.

Street Corner Symphony Performs "Voodoo" Nashville's weekly outdoor concert series Musician's Corner is taking an a capella turn this weekend.

Street Corner Symphony Performs "Hard to Handle" Nashville's weekly outdoor concert series Musician's Corner is taking an a capella turn this weekend.

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.