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Thursday Jun 25 | TwinCities.com

Winona's got the Beet The Mississippi River valley town is making a...

Was that Joshua Bell walking the streets of Winona last summer? It may sound incongruous to find a superstar violinist in a small southeastern Minnesota city, but there he was.

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Related Topix: Winona, MN, Classical, Symphony, Arts

Tue Jun 23, 2009

Commercial Real Estate

Minnesota Orchestra selects architect for renovation

The $40 million project will include a new outside look, an expanded and renovated lobby and an overall fresher interior for the 35-year-old building.

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Related Topix: Classical, Minnesota, University of Minnesota

Sun Jun 21, 2009

StarTribune

Withering Glance: An exhausting orchestra encore

RN: Thanks for talking Robert and me into that swell Minnesota Orchestra concert.

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Related Topix: Classical

Fri Jun 19, 2009

Twincities.com

Minnesota Orchestra cuts renovation plan price tag by more than half

The Minnesota Orchestra announced a $40 million renovation of Orchestra Hall on Friday - a price tag that is less than half of what the orchestra planned to spend when it first unveiled renovation plans two years ago.

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Related Topix: Classical, Yale University

Fri Jun 12, 2009

TwinCities.com

Luck of the Irish to Minnesota Orchestra

There's a new face at the Minnesota Orchestra, and he speaks with an Irish accent.

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Related Topix: Classical, Symphony, Arts

Wed Jun 10, 2009

MinnPost.com

Minnesota Orchestra to end season with Beethoven's Missa Solemnis

Beethoven is generally acknowledged as an excellent judge of his own music, though he appeared to be unimpressed by public opinion.

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Related Topix: Classical, Beethoven, Arts, Symphony

Mon Jun 08, 2009

Music

How great a mass?

The giant Missa Solemnis, a seldom-performed enigma in the Beethoven canon, ends the season at the Minnesota Orchestra.

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Related Topix: Beethoven, Classical, Minnesota, Music, Entertainment

Sat Jun 06, 2009

Huliq.com

Minnesota Orchestra Announces Sommerfest

Sommerfest Artistic Director Andrew Litton and the Minnesota Orchestra today unveiled plans for their seventh Sommerfest together.

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Related Topix: Classical, Beethoven, Arts, Opera, Mozart, Symphony

Fri May 29, 2009

Jackson County Pilot

Lorie Line first of coming concerts

The first of several big concerts coming to Jackson County will feature regionally renowned entertainer and pianist Lorie Line.

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Related Topix: Jackson County, MN, Minneapolis, MN, Classical, Jackson, MN

Wed May 27, 2009

MinnPost.com

Minnesota Orchestra offers irresistible 'Night in the Tropics'

Historically, symphony orchestras have been awkward players in the swing department, whether it be jazz or rock.

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Related Topix: Classical, Symphony, Arts, Arthur Fiedler, The Boston Pops

Sat May 23, 2009

Huliq.com

Stephen Hough Joins Minnesota Orchestra

Osmo Vanska and the Minnesota Orchestra launch their newest recording project with two weeks of live, in-concert recordings of Tchaikovsky's piano-and-orchestra works with British-born pianist Stephen Hough.

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Related Topix: Classical, Arts, Symphony

Thu May 21, 2009

TwinCities.com

Bigger isn't better in new work

There are few relationships in art more intimate than that of poet and reader. When a connection is made via words on a page, it can be as if heart is touching heart.

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Related Topix: Minneapolis, MN, Classical, Symphony

Sun May 17, 2009

Music

Spotlight: Jennifer Higdon premiere at Minnesota Orchestra

Thursday-Friday: The three H's may never replace the three B's as the bedrock composers of the orchestral repertoire, but the makeup of this week's Minnesota Orchestra concerts presents a credible threat.

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Related Topix: Classical, Symphony, Arts, Minnesota, Music, Entertainment

Fri May 15, 2009

StarTribune

Edo de Waart leads Minnesota Orchestra in magisterial performance

What: Music by Shostakovich , Mozart and Elgar , conducted by Edo de Waart. When: 8 p.m. today.

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Related Topix: Classical, Mozart, Symphony, Arts, Opera, Music, Entertainment

Wed May 13, 2009

Pasadena Star-News

Best entertainment bets for May 8-14

Today: For years, Tim Kasher, Cursive's lead singer, used his side project, the Good Life, as an outlet for his softer, more melodic side, figuring such material wouldn't fit his original band.

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Related Topix: Disturbed, Pop/Rock, Classical, Symphony, Arts

Mon May 11, 2009

The Minneapolis-St. Paul Pioneer Press

Minnesota Orchestra gets good reviews for Carnegie

Poor Leonidas Kavakos. The Greek violinist was performing Jean Sibelius' Violin Concerto with the Minnesota Orchestra at New York's vaunted Carnegie Hall on Monday night ... when his instrument broke.

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Related Topix: Classical, Symphony, Arts, Entertainment

Sat May 09, 2009

The Minneapolis-St. Paul Pioneer Press

De Waart's return to Minnesota Orchestra is triumphant

A lot has changed since 1995. That was when Edo de Waart concluded his nine-year tenure as the Minnesota Orchestra's music director.

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Related Topix: Classical, Minneapolis, MN, Symphony, Arts, Entertainment

Thu May 07, 2009

New York Times

A Conductor Arrives, With a Nymph Who Flees

Ever since the Finnish conductor Osmo Vanska became the music director of the Minnesota Orchestra in 2003, he has been inspiring the players, delighting critics and ushering in an era of growth and dynamism for this 106-year-old ensemble.

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Related Topix: Classical, Minnesota, Music, Entertainment

Tue May 05, 2009

MinnPost.com

Edo de Waart returns for two weeks with Minnesota Orchestra

The Minnesota Orchestra was out of town on Monday, performing a concert in New York's Carnegie Hall.

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Related Topix: Classical, Symphony, Arts

Sun May 03, 2009

Barbara Flanagan

Signs of the season: horseshoes, drive-ins

Re: consider ice cream cones for dogs -- oh, yes, and our horseshoe season begins again.

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Related Topix: Classical, St. Louis Park, MN, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

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