Symphony News

Like a rock band touring to promote a CD, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra is planning a movable release party in Florida next February to launch its forthcoming CD of Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony.

Music lovers are hoping the clouds will part in time for the opening of the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Tanglewood season.

Grizzly Bear have announced they will perform at the London Barbican with the London Symphony Orchestra on October 31st, NME.com reports.

The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra says its just-ended season was successful in key areas including attendance and ticket sales.

For the past three months, a violinist for the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra has contested an extradition order to Virginia for allegedly trying to solicit a minor for sex over the Internet.

An inspirational evening is guaranteed when virtuoso cellist Natalie Clein performs with the Chichester Pro Camerata on Friday, July 3 at 7.30 pm at St Paul's Church, Churchside, Chichester.

The Pasadena Pops Orchestra opened its last summer season at Descanso Gardens in La Canada Flintridge last weekend with a pair of concerts named after Louis Moreau Gottschalk's neglected symphony "A Night in the Tropics." They opened the evening with that symphony's almost-jazzy second movement, written half a century before jazz, and followed it, ...

Alongside the opening bars of his Fifth Symphony, "Fuer Elise" is one of Beethoven's best-known melodies, prompting scholars down the years to puzzle over her real identity.

More than $40,000 was raised at the Hats Off to Women Breakfast benefiting the Regional Cancer Collaborative at St.

With the Fourth of July falling on Saturday, many people will be observing the federal holiday this Friday.

The executive director of the Miami Symphony Orchestra has resigned, three years after her husband and the symphony's founder died.

Anderson Symphony Orchestra performed their Patriotic Concert in front of more then a thousand area residents at Shadyside Park Sunday evening.

Before conductor Lorin Maazel even lifted his baton, the audience at the New York Philharmonic concert gave him a rousing ovation.

It's going to be yesterday and tomorrow during for Plainfield Symphony's 90th anniversary gala concert, set to take place Oct.

The newly-formed Chichester Piano Trio make their debut on Sunday, June 28, at 2.30pm at Christ Church, Chichester, as part of the Music on Sundays series.

A CHALLENGING programme is to be presented by the Harrogate Symphony Orchestra at their summer concert at the Royal Hall, Harrogate tomorro, Saturday.

The original score performed by the Slovak National Symphony Orchestra will be released at retail and via iTunes on June 30th.

One of three western Michigan arts camp orchestra members whose illnesses grounded a planned European tour has tested positive for swine flu.

Acclaimed soprano Measha Brueggergosman is recovering from emergency open-heart surgery.

After a 2 1/2-year search involving 275 applicants and eight finalists, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic has chosen a new music director.