Symphony News Archives

Special to The T&D Dr. Richard Beckford, director of the South Carolina State University Concert Choir, will present an organ concert at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. via The Times and Democrat

“L'Isle Joyeuse (The Isle of Joy).”

By The Entertainer CORVALLIS - First prize winner of the 2001 Cleveland International Piano Competition and finalist in the 2005 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Roberto Plano, will be in Corvallis ... via Lee Northwest

“Classical music is a tough sell in Brockton”

In its first year under new music director James Orent, the Brockton Symphony Orchestra is drawing new audiences and making new friends, according to backers. via Boston.com

A Jacksonville musician will be arraigned Friday on child pornography charges following his indictment by a federal grand jury. via The Florida Times Union

“This is the kind of event I like to see because it shows what happens when people from other walks of life and other ethnic backgrounds get together to make beautiful music together”

Want to escape the rainy winter blahs? Maybe try a taste of the sun-drenched Caribbean? On Saturday, you can - no passport required. via San Bernardino County Sun

“Manuchehr Sahbaii is a practiced musician and he is well acquainted with classical music. He will be very effective in this position”

Due to current circumstances, the Tehran Symphony Orchestra conductor cannot perform a miracle for the orchestra, musician Hushang Kamkar said on Tuesday. via Tehran Times

“My ensemble has never been in an orchestra setting before”

By Warren Gerds wgerds@greenbaypressgazette.com Some people march to a different drummer. via Green Bay Press-Gazette

“When you have only four selections, you hope the choices are good ones”

Ten seasons as Greenville Symphony Orchestra clarinetist give Anthony Marotta confidence when he prepares for feature concerts. via The Greenville News

While the strings are the Sofia Festival Orchestra's strength, the winds proved to be its biggest problem at The Society of the Four Arts. via PalmBeachDailyNews

“There's no general ethical principle for enhancement--a performance that one group celebrates as a manifestation of natural talent and practice boosted by a drug, another group sees as cheating.”

There are quite literally thousands of musical notes in a symphony--each of which must be played not only with near mechanical precision but infused with a passion that breathes life into the composer's vision. via US News & World Report

A state court judge in Seattle has dismissed the third and final claim of a lawsuit brought by a violinist who accused the Seattle Symphony and its music director, Gerard Schwarz , of abuse and discrimination. via New York Times

Immediately following the Mozart@252 Festival, the tireless Toronto Symphony Orchestra will embark upon three spectacular offerings of the highest caliber of performers: brothers Renaud and Gautier CapuA on ... via Huliq.com

Cellist Alban Gerhardt builds drama in a new piece that the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra played for its Carnegie Hall debut on Saturday. via WFAA-TV Dallas

“The Atlantis Gala was our first fundraising event on this scale for our symphony and opera”

The Lake Terrace Convention Center and the Southern Mississippi Symphony Orchestra have been honored by ConventionSouth Magazine with this year's preferred meeting site and top event awards. via Hattiesburg American

A lobby in Knight Concert Hall at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County shows the audience gathering to attend the Cleveland Orchestra's concert Saturday, Jan. via Cleveland.com

“It's very atmospheric of a small town by the sea”

Light snow and -2 C In honour of all things Scottish, the Huronia Symphony will present A Scottish Night, at Collier Street United Church, Sunday, Jan. via Barrie Advance

“All of the sudden, I heard there was this new genius from Japan - ' only 17 years old, but he played like Paganini. I heard him in recital, and I still remember the sensation. My chin just literally went down to my belly. I was so shocked”

Maro Shinozaki, the concertmaster of the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo and a world-renowned solo artist, will join the Amarillo Symphony for a pair of concerts on Feb. via The Canyon News, Canyon, Texas

NEW YORK -- It was a serious-minded classical music concert with just a dash of Hollywood premiere.

At the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra's Carnegie Hall debut Saturday night, flashbulbs popped, and luminaries of another kind -- Van Cliburn, Mercedes Bass, novelist Sandra Brown -- beamed from the boxes. Home folks whooped after every piece and leapt to standing ovations, giving the atmosphere an unusual charge.

But anyone who was there purely to hear music was rewarded, too, thanks to the talents and musical enthusiasms of Music Director Miguel Harth-Bedoya. Read more

“Performances by the orchestra combine high quality musicianship with a varied programme with excellent value for money, guaranteeing an enjoyable and memorable night out.”

The British police are coming to India and that should be music to many ears. The force's highly acclaimed orchestra has three performances lined up in Mumbai, Agra and Delhi next month. via Hindustan Times

“Rondo in G Minor for Cello & Orchestra.”

With a salute to the romantic composer Franz Schubert's "An die Musik," Conductor Scott Terrell started a Friday night CSO concert with the contemporary composer John Corigliano's "To Music." Music calms the ... via Post and Courier

“As long as I could make music as a conductor, it could replace the trumpet without any concern.”

Notes never end for Southcoast Symphony conductor Those syllables seemed to glide, classic solfege, rich and balanced, do-re-mi from a New Jersey diner. via Post and Courier

“And I want to play percussion.”

Wolf, played by David Mills-Low, dances to the music of the trombone and trumpet Friday during a performance of "Peter Versus The Wolf," a musical education piece performed by the Missoula Symphony Orchestra ... via Missoulian

Reprinted from yesterday's late editions

Contemporary music is often viewed as the spinach in the repast of a concert program: the part that's good for you but has to be gussied up to make you want to eat it. Accordingly, Leonard Slatkin warmed up Thursday night's Kennedy Center audience by having the National Symphony Orchestra play a brief and rather lugubrious-sounding excerpt of Christopher Rouse's Second Symphony during his spoken introduction before the work's first Washington performance. Read more

“It is an essential part of our mission to reach out to students in the area who may not otherwise experience live orchestral music, and this concert is specifically designed to intrigue and delight the minds of elementary students”

Elementary school teachers may register their students for a concert by Green Bay Symphony Youth Orchestra at 10 a.m. March 10 at the Weidner Center. via Green Bay Press-Gazette

The San Francisco Symphony unveiled this week's program at a Thursday matinee, and it was a beauty. via Civic Center

North Korea's main symphony orchestra will play in Britain in September in the communist country's largest-ever musical performances abroad, a U.S. government-funded radio station reported. via PR-inside.com

Finding symphonic concerts at reasonable prices isn't always easy, but this weekend there are several choices, including two that are free. via Whittier Daily News

“It's always a very big event whenever the orchestra plays a Bruckner symphony”

Music Director JoAnn Falletta will be on the podium in Kleinhans Music Hall this Saturday evening, January 26, and again on Sunday afternoon, leading the Buffalo Philharmonic in a program consisting of Mozart's ... via Art Voice

“It's more of an intimate setting and has sparked an interest in attending full orchestral concerts at the hall.”

In Unison creates ties between SLSO and the neighborhood By Kenya Vaughn Of the St. via St. Louis American Newspaper

The lowdown // Chamber Music by Candlelight, showcasing Baltimore Symphony Orchestra musicians and their friends, remains one of the most rewarding concert series in the area. via Baltimore Sun

“Lohengrin"; Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World”

The New York Philharmonic's concert in North Korea next month is to be broadcast live worldwide, the orchestra announced Wednesday. via Myrtle Beach Online

As part of their Ensembles in the Schools program, members of the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony and the symphony's Feb. via Waterloo Courier

At least 400 high school musicians from Mississippi and surrounding states will gather for the 55th annual Honor Band Clinic. via WAPT.com

“So I am trying to reach this new lyricism, which is more pure [and] in a way suffers less. That is less centered in the 'me”

There are some composers who are able to separate their private lives from their music. But not Osvaldo Golijov.

He wrote Mariel, the piece for cello and orchestra that the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra will premiere at Carnegie Hall on Saturday, shortly after a friend died in a car crash.

Mariel Stubri and her husband were vacationing in the south of Chile when the fatal accident took place. At the time, she was nursing her baby. The piece Mariel, Golijov says, tries to capture the instant in which he received the awful news over the telephone. Read more

They'll be celebrating Russia at Lincoln Center next season. The arts complex's 43rd Great Performers season will feature a nine-part series of concerts focusing on Prokofiev. via Asbury Park Press Online

It's time again for some refreshing morning or evening music-lite. The Greenville Symphony Orchestra's second "Spotlight Series at Centre Stage - South Carolina" concert presents "Reflections" that features a ... via The Greenville News

Musician Nader Mashayekhi considers that reformation is essential in the field of Iranian classical and symphonic music, MNA reported. via IranMania News

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's Pittsburgh 250 Ambassador Tour of Europe will take the orchestra to Barcelona, Amsterdam, Cologne, Vienna, Budapest, Zagreb and more. via POP City

“The ToneCore DSP Developer Kit begins a new era in audio effects creation”

Line 6, Inc. announces the ToneCore DSP Developer Kit, a programmable stomp box effects development platform that enables anyone with a PC and an interest in Digital Signal Processing to become a hardware ... via Harmony Central

How well blacks say they get along with whites: Very well: 20 percent Pretty well: 49 percent Not too well: 20 percent Not at all well: 4 percent Percentage of blacks who'd like to see: More neighborhood ... via Axcess News

The Greenville Symphony Orchestra, in collaboration with the South Carolina Children's Theatre, announces its upcoming "Timbre Tales" concert program on Tuesday, February 5. "Alexander and the Terrible, ... via The Greenville News

“Roy has distinguished himself as one of the finest interpreters of Twentieth Century French piano music, having been taught by Vlado Perlemuter who was himself taught by Ravel.”

AN internationally renowned pianist will star in an orchestral concert featuring compositions by Schubert, Ravel and Copland in St Albans on Saturday January 26. via This Is Hertfordshire

“My sister, Pat (Nguyen) said that even after he got out of the hospital, he was able to get to the piano and play a bit”

Classical music composer F. Gordon Parmentier died Saturday at his Green Bay home. via WisInfo

“He's always very authoritative in his approach. There is never any doubt in what he wants. ... It was a very, very lovely performance of Dvorak's Eighth Symphony.”

By MATTHEW ERIKSON So the Cowboys didn't make the Super Bowl. Cheer up: Another hometown team is about to make history.Next weekend, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra will make its debut at New York's Carnegie ... via Star-telegram.com

The Charleston Symphony Orchestra's Masterworks concert Saturday night proved again that they are a committed and virtuoso group under music director David Stahl. via Post and Courier

“I have no purpose to stay here.”

With corporate and private donors stretched thin, taxpayers might be the best hope for solving the immediate financial problems of the Columbus Symphony. via WBNS

“Laz and San really warm up Michigan Friends Center with their music, and I love to see both kids and adults engaged and enjoying themselves”

It's time to celebrate winter with music and fun at the annual Winterfest event, set for Jan. via Chelsea Standard-Heritage Newspapers-...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Columbus Symphony says it must make dramatic cuts to save the financially troubled orchestra. via Chillicothe Gazette

“This image has remained in the retina of my memory all my life.”

It's like a Celtic knot, so interwoven is the program of the next Marin Symphony performance on Jan. via Marin Independent Journal

If You're Going FLORENCE -- St. John's Episcopal Church Epiphany Concert Series continues at 6 p.m. Sunday with a performance by La Catrina String Quartet in the parish hall. via WBTW

“With the recklessness of adolescence I said yes, I would like to play all the Beethoven sonatas”

This week, Daniel Barenboim played Beethoven in Ramallah and let it be known that he had accepted honorary Palestinian citizenship, thus setting the seal on his campaign to persuade Israel's oppressed ... via The Independent

“For the past two years, we've given this board all our support. But this proposed plan was done outside of any collaboration or consultation with musicians”

Leaders of the financially troubled Columbus Symphony are proposing dramatic cuts in the number of full-time musicians and the number of weeks the musicians perform. via Columbus Dispatch

“Hopefully we'll get some resolution to this matter that's satisfactory to both Linda as well as the symphony, and then to go on and start addressing some of the other issues that the symphony musicians have raised over this last six months or so”

The controversy-plagued Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra has received a fresh injection of cash to help keep the organization alive. via CBC

The Fort Wayne Philharmonic announced eight candidates for the post of musical director at a news conference Tuesday. via Fort Wayne News-Sentinel

“Now the orchestra can grow. The Friends saved it.”

By ROGER BULL, The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra's lockout is over. Musicians ratified a new five-year contract Wednesday, more than two months after a labor impasse put the season on hold. via Jacksonville.com

“This is a great production, but why did you have to get a professional to play Harold Hill?”

"I have this tremendous love of theater!" David Robertson announces before the first question is asked. via Riverfront Times

“It's a reflection, in some part, of what has happened to the orchestra's reputation and to the reputation of the new concert hall”

Nashville piano pop star Ben Folds and celebrated cellist Yo-Yo Ma will be among the highlights of the Nashville Symphony's 2008-09 concert season, to be announced today at Schermerhorn Symphony Center. via The Tennessean

BOWLING GREEN, O.-Homecoming weekend at Bowling Green State University was in September, but for a dozen BGSU music alumni, Jan. via News-Messenger

The due information has been provided by the diplomatic representation of Azerbaijan in Mexico. via Today.Az

The event will draw representatives from nearly a dozen colleges and performing ensembles from around the state. via Rome News - Tribune

“The Hip Hop Violinist", will be receiving the first Martin Luther King,Jr. Israeli Award for her unique outreach to African American culture and youth, particularly through her song and video "Symphony of Brotherhood”

"Being a third generation to Holocaust survivors, I have always believed in the fight against racism" - 'Miri Ben-Ari Grammy Award-Winning Israeli Miri Ben-Ari, AKA "The Hip Hop Violinist", will be receiving ... via Together

“Some people have been playing for 40 years and they have not been able to perform.”

By Angela Spears First Coast News JACKSONVILLE, FL -- It is back to the negotiating table for the management of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra and the musicians. via FirstCoastNews

The Seventh Symphony of Shostakovich has been interpreted in a number of ways. Here Philip Spires argues that the work makes most sense when it is understood as a conflict between ideologies and idealism. via Buzzle.com

Egarr refreshes familiar works Arnold Schoenberg had a healthy if wary respect for Gustav Mahler. via This is London

“Now even not very intelligent people are saying that the occupation has to be stopped”

Posted on 01/13/2008 11:18:54 AM PST by Alouette World renowned Israeli pianist, conductor receives PA passport over weekend, asserts Palestinian citizenship. via Free Republic

“Being a third generation to Holocaust survivors, I have always believed in the fight against racism”

Israeli musician Miri Ben-Ari, dubbed "the hip-hop violinist," is to be honored with the first Martin Luther King, Jr. via UPI

Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave.; 312-294-3000. Edwin Outwater conducts the CSO's splendid youth training orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No. via Chicago Tribune

ROSEBURG: The Umpqua Symphony Association has announced a concert by the Eugene Symphony scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Jan. via The News-Review

Israeli pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim received an honorary Palestinian Authority citizenship on Saturday. via Jerusalem Post

Today's concert-goers are in for a treat, as were Saturday night's, as the Greenville Symphony Orchestra led by Spanish guest conductor Jesus Amigo creates 'Spanish Nights' music at the Peace Concert Hall. via GreenvilleOnline.com

“We have since learned enough about Tchaikovsky, and about the agony of repressed homosexuality, to understand why he would choose to marry a woman he didn't even know as a kind of cover”

Be ready to experience much, much more than a preconcert lecture and musical offering. via NWI Times

“Now it's time to say goodbye ...”

Bobby McFerrin was feeling his oats Thursday night when he conducted and sang with the Pacific Symphony in the Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall. via Orange Co. Register

The Charlotte Symphony let fly with one tempestuous Tchaikovsky symphony last spring, and Friday night it tackled another. This latest performance -- to borrow from a 1960s politician -- represented a choice, not an echo.

In April, guest conductor Andrew Grams electrified Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony by emphasizing vigor, precision and colorful details. Friday, another guest -- William Eddins, music director of the Edmonton Symphony in Canada -- took a different tack with Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony: He pulled out all the stops. It was a different way of stoking the fires. Read more

“I'm finding out how much work is involved, though. It makes me more appreciative of teachers I've had in the past.”

Pianist Lara Urrutia has made a name for herself on the world stage. Just 25, she's performed as a soloist with symphony orchestras in Los Angeles, Chili and Salzburg, Austria, among others. via Daily Breeze

GO: 'I Know Who Killed Me' at the Brattle Theatre "I Know Who Killed Me" should offend the tastes of any sane person, yet the folks at Harvard Square's Brattle Theatre see the Lindsay Lohan flop as a future ... via Boston Herald

“After the funeral, I still had a feeling of 'This isn't real. This isn't happening,' ”

Hundreds of Woodward Academy students will attend the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's Jan. via Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The search has begun to find a replacement for Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra's CEO. via Kypost.Com

The Honolulu Symphony has received 825 donations totaling more than $450,000 over the past few weeks for its annual fund campaign, exceeding its goal of $125,000. The donations from individuals came in after ... via Pacific Business News (Honolulu)

“The moral in Britten's 'War Requiem”

This orchestra announcement began with the end: Lorin Maazel will close out his seven years as music director of the New York Philharmonic at age 79 by conducting Mahler's 'Symphony of a Thousand.'

'It seems to be an appropriate closing statement,' Maazel said at a news conference Thursday announcing the orchestra's 2008-09 season.

The Philharmonic's 167th season opens Sept. 17 with Maazel conducting a nationally televised concert on PBS featuring flutist Sir James Galway in Ibert's Flute Concerto. Subscription concerts at Avery Fisher Hall begin the next night with the U.S. premiere of composer Steven Stucky's 'Rhapsodies,' which was commissioned by the orchestra. Read more

The Colorado Symphony Orchestra goes "Looney" this weekend with "Bugs Bunny on Broadway," a concert featuring classic Warner Bros.