Leonard Slatkin News

Like a rock band touring to promote a CD, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra is planning a movable release party in Florida next February to launch its forthcoming CD of Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony.

Thomas Wilkins is on a roll. He's helped the Omaha Symphony reach new heights as music director since 2005 and this month starts his second season as principal guest conductor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.

This seasona TMs classical calendar in Santa Barbara is all about the Summer Festival at the Music Academy of the West .

I used to think that Nashville was a distant, even exotic destination, fit for country music buffs and better left untouched by classical fans.

When Kenneth Schermerhorn died in 2005, after more than two decades at the helm of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, the maestro left an unusually large void.

June is freebie month for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. A DSO string orchestra conducted by music director Leonard Slatkin opens a series of free concerts Wednesday at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital, with a performance titled "Music and Healing." The program includes music by Bach, Mozart and Copland and Samuel Barber.

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra is taking its message of inclusiveness directly to the people this month, with a series of six free concerts across the Metro area.

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra is taking its message of inclusiveness directly to the people this month, with a series of six free concerts across the Metro area.

Even in a fragmentary first season as music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin says he gleaned a clear impression of an ensemble with a strong work ethic and a collective desire to be their best.

The Ford Foundation is boosting the struggling Detroit Symphony Orchestra with a three-year, $1 million grant to help expand its donor base.

Leonard Slatkin, music director of the Detroit Symphony, pays a visit to lead the TSO and violinist Gil Shaham in American composer William Bolcoma TMs playful Violin Concerto.

Leonard Slatkin's concert ode as Nashville Symphony Music Advisor is certainly a joyful one.

It's been an eventful three years for the Nashville Symphony . Leonard Slatkin conducts his final regular season concerts as music advisor this weekend, having helped guide the orchestra to a new level of national prominence during its critical transition after the death of inspirational conductor Kenneth Schermerhorn .

Accomplished conductor Leonard Slatkin, the Nashville Symphony's music advisor since 2006, will step down from that position after conducting Beethoven's Ninth Symphony this weekend.

The CONCERTO FOR TROMBONE AND ORCHESTRA , written a little more than eight years after CHRISTMASMUSIC, may be the composer's best-known work.

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra Volunteer Council Musical Feasts chair Janet Ankers scored a big coup snagging both the DSO Music Director Leonard Slatkin and the Manoogian Mansion as the site for the kick-off event of the project's 22nd year.

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra's new music director sets great store by music education, and that isn't just lip service.

Make Tracks for Thomas and Sir Topham Hatt: Here comes "The Hero of the Rails." Thomas the Tank Engine chugs into Greenfield Village for six days of train rides, storytelling, live music, videos, temporary tattoos and crafts.

Leonard Slatkin plans to be the Mahler maven in his own house, as music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra .

"Orchestral Songs" is a CD of songs written for Voice and Orchestra Rob Mathes recorded over the last decade, much of it in London at the famed Abbey Road Studios.