Symphony News

The issue and performance of previously unpublished musical works - juvenilia, early pieces, and even completions by others of music left by composers, for one reason or another, incomplete - always provokes interesting debate.

Last night Phish front man Trey Anastasio performed with the esteemed National Symphony Orchestra at the historic Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Anastasio mixed classics from both his solo and Phish repertoire over the course of two sets and an encore.

THINK of symphonies at Winchester Cathedral and you can't help but imagine sounds of grand orchestras booming through the halls.

It was called the "seventh engineering wonder of the world," a herculean effort to reverse the flow of the Chicago River.

In an effort to promote Hello Bank's mobile platform, the company launched a 'Mobile Concerto' campaign where a symphony is played using only mobile devices.

The June issue of Gramophone is on sale now, in which we reveal the Hall of Fame 2013 .

Both romance and high energy are hallmarks in Saturday evening's Baltimore Symphony Orchestra concert at the Music Center at Strathmore.

Performers from two of the Flint Cultural Center's most active organizations will join forces for a collection of concerts that begins next weekend.

Music director Edo de Waart will lead the orchestra in a program of Johannes Brahms' first and fourth symphonies Friday through Sunday and then wrap up with Edward Elgar's "The Dream of Gerontius" the following weekend.

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra completed its 2012-13 Princeton concert series in grand fashion on Friday night with a performance full of precision, operatic flair, and innovative musical composition.

The KZN Philharmonic Orchestra's Winter Symphony Season has opened to a resounding start with conductor Daniel Boico leading the KZNPO in a symphonic illumination of the themes of love, life and death.

For the first time ever, Grammy-winning folk duo the Indigo Girls, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, will embark on a national symphony tour in the United States.

Unesco Artist for Peace Amine Kouider will conduct the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra in the world premiere of Unesco Artist for Peace Marcel Khalife's Kanun Concerto tomorrow, at 7.30pm in Katara Cultural Village Opera House.

On a surface Thanachai "Pod" Ujjin of Moderndog fame is far removed from the orchestral world.

During the winter months, when tourists and snow birds flock to South Florida, the arts calendar is filled with theater, music and dance performances; but once Passover and Easter pass, a little culture can be scarce.

The Lynchburg Symphony Orchestra is determined to keep the music playing, but it hasn't been easy.

The University City Symphony Orchestra , under the direction of Maestro Leon Burke III, held its final concert of the 2012-13 season Sunday at All Saints Church in University City.

The main event was maestro Mei-Ann Chen leading the orchestra in the Suite from "Porgy and Bess," a rich array of the music from George Gershwin's 1935 opera.

David Gatchel, a sophomore at Camarillo High School, plays a Rachmaninoff solo at "Notes to Remember - A Bill Israel Memory Rectial" on Sunday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley.

When I was in high school, I went to the symphony for the first time. I was impressed by the sound, the acoustics of Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center.