Sibelius News

It was an evening at the movies last night at Burlington's Memorial Auditorium when the Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra presented its 2012 Young Artists in concert.

Daniel Hege, the music director and conductor for the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, is thrilled to offer Mozart's 40th - one of his favorites.

Finland's Lahti Symphony Orchestra seized and retains its special place in the musical cosmos as a result of its outstanding Sibelius recordings during the 20-year tenure of Osmo VA nskA as principal conductor, which ended in 2008.

Among the countless number of strummers and pickers the world over, there may be a small fraction who do not consider themselves to be artists! There must also be a small number who have only produced a handful of well-respected though modestly selling albums, but who still consider that the meaning of their lives is defined in these and their ... (more)

Paavo Berglund in 1998. His cycle of Nielsen symphonies, recorded with the Royal Danish Orchestra, was praised for its insight and integrity.

Paavo Berglund died Wedsnesday, age 82. He was one of Finland's most important conductors.

Howard Hanson is probably best remembered as one of the US's most important music educators - he was head of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, for 40 years.