Minnesota Orchestra News

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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