Symphony News

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.

Ukrainian conductor Kirill Karabits, currently Principal Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, made his debut conducting the San Francisco Symphony in January of 2011 .

Instead the orchestra presented a high-energy program that was more like a celebration than a farewell.

To reconcile the irreconcilable - isn't actually this gives life to the new genres and styles? The symphonic orchestra as the epitome of classic and rigor combined with the heavy style of music like rock is something new for the Kyrgyz public.

Founder Bruce Habitzruther retired last week after serving as music director and conductor since the symphony began 30 years ago.

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra has announced upcoming shows by stand-up comedian Bill Cosby, also an author and creator of the "Cosby Show," and musician Natalie Merchant, who first tasted fame in the 1980s and 1990s with her band 10,000 Maniacs.

Although the Cliburn competition has been around since 1962, it continues to evolve every four years, so each event is slightly different.

One of the earliest original soundtracks written for a full-length motion picture was Max Steiner's score for "King Kong," in 1933.