Symphony News

Time is short this morning - jury duty continues - so I'm simply going to give you the press release direct from the Boston Symphony Orchestra with all the plans for next summer's Tanglewood season, including the return of Seiji Ozawa, the jazz fest and two James Taylor/Carole King shows that will sell out so fast it will warp the space/time ...

Playing Bach chamber-style without a conductor, as the members of the San Francisco Symphony, are doing this week, is a double-edged sword.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 A Videogame Symphony.. If there's a better to pack seats of the symphony with twenty-somethings than having a symphony of video game music, I don't know of one.

Long Yu presides over this performance, part of an 11-city North American tour marking the SSOa TMs 130th anniversary.

Pianist-composer Michel Camilo laughs as he recalls one particular performance of his Piano Concerto, several years ago at Royal Albert Hall in London with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Leonard Slatkin conducting.

While listening to conductor Grant Cooper rehearse Richard Wagner's Prelude to "Tristan and Isolde" with the West Virginia Symphony, it was clear that just being in the audience at such a time was a privilege.

The Berkshire Symphony will perform on Friday, Nov. 13, at 8 p.m. in Chapin Hall on the Williams College campus.

Music Director Miguel Harth-Bedoya's critically acclaimed Caminos del Inka project travels along the vast network of pathways built during the Incan empire that connect his native Peru to five neighboring South American countries.

Long Yu, newly appointed conductor of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, brooks no nonsense from critics who assert that Chinese musicians interpret standard Western classical music differently from their European or American counterparts.

Gov. Haley Barbour has announced the site of the next Mississippi Blues Trail marker.

It's clear that the people of Oakland and its outlying areas love their symphony orchestra.

The Indiana Symphony Society reported at Monday's annual board of directors meeting a record $2.8 million shortfall for the 2009 fiscal year.

Apparently, no one told Sonia Sotomayor that Supreme Court justices are supposed to be circumspect, emerging from their marble palace mainly to dispense legal wisdom to law schools, judges' conferences and lawyers' meetings.

To the delight of those in attendance, Saturday night's performance by the Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra offered its audience an evening of orchestral favorites.

Twenty third-graders at Hollister School recently got the chance to pluck, shake, blow and beat an array of instruments, all without fear of being shushed by nearby adults.

Guest conductor Stephen D'Agostino put a personal stamp on the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra in Saturday's concert at the Weidner Center, with much the same result as recent performances - long applause and standing ovations.

The Wichita Symphony delivered a wonderful array of musical selections Sunday easily likened to the courses of a gourmet meal.

Sad, but not surprising. That's my reaction to the fate of the beleaguered Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, faced with a $1 million debt and a lack of funds to continue year-round operations in a $4 million-plus budget.

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra presents Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto, a rarely heard virtuoso work with a weird history, on a program with two symphonic offerings by Mozart.

The ongoing dispute between the musicians and management of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra isn't ending anytime soon.