Bruch News

NICOLA Benedetti pulled in the biggest crowd of the season for her Glasgow appearance with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.

Joshua Bell has played with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra more than a dozen times since he helped write the first chapter in its 'Symphony on the Prairie' history as a 12-year-old in 1982.

THE next concert in the Assembly Rooms' classical season sees the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra visit Derby.

Madison native David Finckel, hailed one of the preeminent cellists in the country, returns to his hometown Oct.

San Diego Symphony music director Jahja Ling. Jahja Ling, the San Diego Symphony's conductor and music director, has never forgotten the first time he heard the sound of a live symphony orchestra.

The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra announced today nine guest conductors replacing the dismissed ISO music director Mario Venzago.

Even in a lean year, Sommerfest has a fairly extensive menu of classical, jazz, comedy, pops and opera.

Image credit: Chris Lee Today, Herbert Blomstedt leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra and violinist Joshua Bell in a program of Bruch, Beethoven, and Dvorak at the Koussevitzky Music Shed of Tanglewood, the BSO's summer home, in Lenox, Mass.

During the Hearst Castle's heyday, music was part of the entertainment lavished on celebrities such as Charles Chaplin, Winston Churchill, Joan Crawford and Charles Lindbergh.

If you're one of the first-rate violinists playing for Charm City's resurgent orchestra, you may well dream of playing some killer Tchaikovsky-perhaps that famous Serenade for Strings.

All concerts begin at 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, 7360 Center Rd., Quilcene; $12-$27 . June 27-28: Bach/Brahms Chaconne; Bruch Four Pieces for viola, clarinet, and piano operatic aria arrangements; Dvorak Piano Duet; Bohemian Forest.

Some musical seasons just fall into an easily assembled interlocking puzzle. This coming year's classical season for the Naples Philharmonic is more like a Whitman's Sampler: It's a wide assortment of unique fillings.

Pianist Daniel Tselyakov topped the list of aspiring classical musicians vying for the Women's Musical Club of Winnipeg's annual scholarships this weekend at the University of Manitoba.

Scotch, anyone? While it may go a bit far to suggest that the ICO's final concert of the season inebriated its modest-sized Christel DeHaan audience , there nonetheless was plenty of Scotch for everyone - embodied in works of Felix Mendelssohn, Max Bruch and Georges Bizet, all conducted by Kirk Trevor.

Extremes of age played a more than incidental role in Saturday's season finale by the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra.

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London plays a classical concert named a Here Come the Classicsa .

Two opposing musical styles will come together this weekend with the New Philharmonic Orchestra's "Bruch and Bartok" concerts.

Celebrate the arrival of spring with the joyous sounds of the Firelands Symphony Orchestra and teenage virtuoso Caroline Goulding performing Bruch's Scottish Fantasy on the violin.