Dallas Symphony Orchestra News

This Friday, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra will hold a major press conference, but so far, it has not revealed even the topic of discussion.

Dr. Steven Harlos, staff keyboardist for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, will be the featured artist for this seasona s Agnes Burns Keyboard Concert.

There's almost an overabundance of symphonic crowd-pleasers in the area this weekend.

Two years after making a memorable Dallas Symphony Orchestra debut, the French conductor Stephane Deneve was back on the Meyerson Symphony Center podium Thursday night.

Jaap van Zweden has extended his contract as music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra through the 2015-16 season.

Dallas Symphony Orchestra: Halloween Family Concert Hear Dallas composer Simon Sargon's "Town Musicians of Bremen" along with Saint-Saens' "Carnival of the Animals" at this Halloween concert at the Meyerson.

There were several rousing ovations during the conductor Jaap van Zweden's concert with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra on Thursday night at the Meyerson Symphony Center here, especially after the final work, an urgent, colorful and incisive account of Prokofiev 's "Romeo and Juliet" Ballet Suite.

Simon Sargon , a highly regarded composer and professor of composition at SMU since 1983, will enjoy a Dallas Symphony Orchestra premiere of his work for young audiences, a oeThe Town Musicians of Bremen,a at its opening Family Concert on Sunday, October 25, 2009 at the Meyerson Symphony Center .

DENTON , Texas -- See both the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Symphony Chorus under one roof at the University of North Texas' Murchison Performing Arts Center.

Maybe you missed this when we posted it the first time around -- back in, um, June 2007, when the Police played the American Airlines Center.

What: Led by Music Director Jaap van Zweden, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Dallas Symphony Chorus will perform Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the University of North Texas.

The former New Life pastor talks about the scandals that led him to the brink of suicide, the disconnect between his preachings and practices, and his prospects for creating a new ministry back in Colorado Springs.

By CHRIS SHULL Robert Xavier Rodriguez's music has been performed by ensembles and orchestras across the United States and around the world, but his roots in North Texas are deep.

Ben Folds returned to the Meyerson Symphony Center last night to accompany the DSO in a night of classed-up favorites and a few new tunes.

Beginning Thursday through Sunday, Nina Kotova will sit in with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, as the acclaimed Russian cellist makes her Texas Instruments Classical Series bow .

Those horns! Those memorable horns! The opening of Tchaikovskya TMs fourth symphony, those measures of music announcing the arrival of the composera TMs new symphonic form, blew through the rafters of Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center Thursday night, heralding a new season of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra .

Funny thing about preconceptions. Take mine, for instance, about Jaap van Zweden, the acclaimed music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and perhaps the most sought-after U.S. conductor these days.

Dallas is famous for the Kennedy assassination, J.R., the Cowboys, shopping - uh, what else? One of its genuine claims to international fame is the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center.

Classical music review: Van Zweden carries Dallas Symphony Orchestra through masterful Tchaikovsky Fourth Symphony 11:18 PM CDT on Thursday, September 17, 2009 By SCOTT CANTRELL / The Dallas Morning News scantrell@dallasnews.com Not from the Berlin Philharmonic, not from the Chicago Symphony will you hear a more electrifying Tchaikovsky Fourth ...

'The Mikado' Japan is the setting for this Artisan Center Theater production of the familiar musical comedic tale of twisted and undying love that also happens to send up self-righteous public officials and their 'spin' control.