Symphony News

Citing mounting debts and lackluster revenues, the Honolulu Symphony said it will file for bankruptcy protection and may lay off half of its musicians.

Dallas Symphony Orchestra in action. The Dallas Symphony Orchestra today announces a new multi-year programming initiative: the Masters of Film Music.

The Honolulu Symphony said Friday it's canceling concerts for the rest of the year and filing for bankruptcy, citing a big drop in donations.

With the World Series just over, baseball fans are keenly aware of the importance of pinch hitters, who come in at crucial moments, on short notice, and are expected to deliver.

By Richard Amey THE ANNUAL Worthing Symphony Orchestra concert for Remembrance on Sunday has three pieces of music that need no introduction a ' nor scarcely any explanation as choices for the occasion.

After years of money troubles, sources tell Hawaii News Now that the Honolulu Symphony may finally be going bankrupt.

Martin Majkut, one of five conductors competing for the artistic helm of the Rogue Valley Symphony Orchestra, will conduct the orchestra's second concert series of the season beginning Friday, Nov.

The second annual "Dia de Los Muertos Family Concert" was presented at Davies Symphony Hall on Sunday afternoon, and the program was unexpectedly wonderful.

The chairman of the Honolulu Symphony's board of directors told KITV on Wednesday, that as of last Friday, the symphony did not have enough money to make its payroll.

RPC Photo / April K. Helms Sammi Wallace, 13, of Twinsburg is all smiles as she runs her fingers through the harp strings.

HELSINKI: Malaysia will start to promote its diverse arts and culture as a niche tourism product for fine arts lovers beginning next year.

Tehran Symphony Orchestra will be performing masterpieces of world music on Wednesday November 4. Famous works by Mozart, Edvard Hagerup Grieg, and several others will be performed at the concert, said conductor Manuchehr Sahbaii.

Johannes Brahms had just finished his Third Symphony and not yet embarked on his Fourth when Mahler sat down in 1884 to begin composing his First Symphony, not then already called - or thought of as - a "First Symphony". It took Mahler four years to bring the first, revised version to a close.

City officials have barred the symphony from rehearsing at Blaisdell Concert Hall until it gets some answers about the orchestra's finances and plans for the future.

New Zealand International Arts Festival The New Zealand International Arts Festival has launched its programme for 2010.

Grizzly Bear and London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, review This year's indie darlings reach new heights with the LSO Rating: * * * * * Posterboys for a certain strain of ambitious, symphonic pop: Grizzly Bear 'Does this feel as fancy for you as it does for us?' asked bassist Chris Taylor as he looked out across the auditorium of the ...

Detroit Symphony Orchestra music director Leonard Slatkin is resting in a hospital in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, after undergoing an angioplasty and stent procedure to treat at least one blocked artery.

Get an idea of what dinner conversation would be like with Antonin Dvorak at the November installment of free monthly music lectures by Paul M. Somers, sponsored by the Bay-Atlantic Symphony.

Our readers know well and good that we're partial to the Turf Club and the T-Rock. To shows where they hand out earplugs, not programmes, at the door.

Music Director Robert Spano will lead the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in the World Premiere of Wynton Marsalisa TMs new symphonic work, Blues Symphony.