Detroit Symphony Orchestra News

I heard an unusual amount of great music in 2009, which makes boiling down 12 months of classical music and jazz concerts and recordings into year-end lists more difficult than usual.

Fusions of classical music and vernacular styles are a dime a dozen these days. But a wailing klezmer clarinet soaring and sobbing above an orchestra string section, with drums and electric bass laying down a rock-funk beat in the basement, is still a pretty exotic sound to encounter in the concert hall.

Royal Oak -- David Handleman, the former chairman and CEO of the Handleman Co. and a longtime philanthropist who has supported the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and numerous charities, died of heart failure on Sunday, Dec.

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra ended its 2009 fiscal year with a deficit of more than $3.7 million, executive director Anne Parsons announced Thursday.

For the third consecutive classical weekend, Detroit Symphony Orchestra music director Leonard Slatkin has been replaced on the podium as he convalesces from a heart attack suffered Nov.

Whatever else Wlad Marhulets' Concerto for Klezmer Clarinet and Orchestra may be in its premiere by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra this weekend, you can be sure of this: It's going to be wild.

Behind the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's world premiere this week of a Concerto for Klezmer Clarinet is a story of two Jews of Polish stock united by fate, heritage and a love for Klezmer music -- the celebratory folk music of Eastern European Jews.

You really had to be there. In 2005 the Detroit Symphony Orchestra gave the world premiere of Hannibal Lokumbe's 'Dear Mrs.

Join us Saturday December 12 at 1:00 at our Pittsfield Branch when Alia Malek is here to read from her new book A Country Called Amreeka .

The details surrounding Detroit Symphony Orchestra music director Leonard Slatkin's heart attack on Nov.

Big-name Detroit-connected stars like Eminem, Stevie Wonder and Madonna received Grammy nods Wednesday, but a slew of others were nominated in less-publicized categories.

In the 1890s, electric mass transportation flourished in Washtenaw County, yet suddenly became extinct after only a few decades.

While all signs point to an early December return, Detroit Symphony Orchestra music director Leonard Slatkin remains sidelined as he recovers from a heart attack he suffered overseas at the beginning of the month.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra music director Leonard Slatkin won't be back on the podium at Orchestra Hall until next year.

Drenched in jazz and Afro-Caribbean idioms, Michel Camilo's attractive Piano Concerto No.

Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussain & Edgar Meyer, "The Melody of Rhythm" Since banjoist Bela Fleck and bassist Edgar Meyer met - in front of an Aspen ice cream parlor, in 1983 - the partnership has taken the music all over the map, touching classical, jazz and bluegrass bases.

With a bright young American subbing on the podium, and an off-beat bill of fare capped by a jazzy piano concerto, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's concert Thursday night turned out to be a refreshing delight.

Pianist-composer Michel Camilo laughs as he recalls one particular performance of his Piano Concerto, several years ago at Royal Albert Hall in London with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Leonard Slatkin conducting.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra music director Leonard Slatkin has canceled his concerts with the orchestra during the next two weeks on the advice of doctors following a heart attack he suffered on Nov.

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