Minnesota Orchestra News

If you didn't get your fill of sweets on Thanksgiving, perhaps you have room for the musical confection they're serving at Orchestra Hall.

Maybe it's the gingerbread house, or the story's redemptive theme, its childlike spirit and its expression of victory over evil.

"He is a true orchestra builder, relentless in rehearsal. His ideas of sound and his demands for precision take time to develop - years, in fact.

Osmo Vaenskae, the Finnish music director of the Minnesota Orchestra in Minneapolis, is looking forward to the opening of a new music center in Helsinki.

How do you expose classical concertgoers to new music? Well, it helps to combine some familiar with the fresh.

REVIEW: Composer Sally Beamish gives a great birthday present to her friend Robert Cohen.

Minnesota Orchestra music director Osmo V nsk will trade in his baton for his clarinet during a special Chamber Music Society of St.

From now on, whenever I hear something about composer Sally Beamish I will think about a nun smoking a cigar.

18 3:46 Alan Hovhaness: Sonata for Harp 4:01 George Thomson & Martin Parker: The Countrey Lasse 4:06 Leonard Bernstein: Divertimento: Turkey Trot 4:09 Francesco Geminiani: Concerto Grosso No.

When Mozart discovered the clarinet, he thought that he'd at last found the instrument most closely approximating the human voice.

Well, what do you expect? Put a guy like Osmo Vanska in charge of the Minnesota Orchestra and it's inevitable that he's going to load Finnish music into the repertoire.

Thursday-Saturday: Three clarinetists and three Finns crowd this week's Minnesota Orchestra concerts.

Share + Oct 29, 2009 12:58 pm US/Central By Sara Boyd In her first month as the principal conductor of pops and presentations at the Minnesota Orchestra, Sarah Hicks has dissected Beethoven's infamous Symphony No.

When the Southwest Minnesota Orchestra started four decades ago, it consisted of just a few brass and wind players.

The Musical Offering is not only one of the great works of Western music. It's also the name of one of the oldest chamber groups in the Twin Cities, now poised to begin its 39th season on Sunday.

If music can cast a spell, then perhaps blame for our cold, damp, snowy autumn can be placed at the feet of the Minnesota Orchestra.

In what is being called a new "cross-over" appointment, the Minnesota Orchestra has named Sarah Hicks its new principal conductor of pops and presentations.

It's finished and in one package: The Minnesota Orchestra's five-year project to record all nine of the Beethoven symphonies has culminated in a five-disc box set that was recently released by BIS , the Swedish record label.

As the Minnesota Orchestra's Tchaikovsky-heavy "Russian Spectacular" concludes this weekend, the St.

Although the Minnesota Orchestra has dubbed the first three weeks of its season a "Russian Spectacular," it's seemed more like a little Tchaikovsky festival than something that offers a cross-section of Russia's musical contributions.