Gershwin News

The production stars Becca Antonakos, Katie Belanger, Michele Bossie, Angelo Gentile, Sam Pazicni, Valerie Rigsbee, Keith Strang, and Bruce Williams.

Before leading the orchestra in Elgar's Enigma Variations- a series of charming musical sketches about the composer's closest friends -Tovey, an eloquent host, will share some of the unsolved mysteries of the work's "secret" contents.

The Broadway revival of the Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess closed in September 2012, but its star, Audra McDonald, says she's just now recovering from the role - both emotionally and physically.

Symphony Silicon Valley's weekend program at the California Theatre was an all-American mini-festival. You had your mandatory Gershwin , your cinematic Bernstein , your pace-setting Adams .

Nobody can accuse pianists Anne-Marie McDermott and Stephen Prutsman of lacking enthusiasm in a Mainly Mozart program that resembled a jam session more than a polished performance.

Some of the country's finest concert orchestras will headline this year's Kenwood Picnic Concerts alongside rock bands Suede and Keane - in a programme praised for putting classical music at its heart.

EDWARD PEAK and the Orchestra Del Arte welcome pianist Emmanuel Vass for the latest of their series of concerts at Heswall Hall on Saturday night.

Broadway Musicals : A Jewish Legacy - screened by PBS in January - has just become available on DVD.

It was the first classical symphony the orchestra had played in a decade, marking assistant director of music John Hutchings' final concert.

In a preview of the Carnegie Hall concert on May 7, on Saturday evening the Albany Symphony featured three works by the American composers John Harbison , George Gershwin and Morton Gould .

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra presents an all-Gershwin NJSO POPS program in New Brunswick and Newark, tonight, April 19 and the 20th.