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Budget cuts are forcing the Minnesota Orchestra to cancel the final concert of the season at the Lake Harriet Band Shell in Minneapolis.

Budget cuts are forcing the Minnesota Orchestra to cancel the final concert of the season at the Lake Harriet Band Shell in Minneapolis.

"Waltz and schmaltz." That's what members of the Minnesota Orchestra call their signature Sommerfest concert of Johann Strauss and his ilk.

Fischer's name has been on the lips of many classical listeners and critics lately.

What: Festival of music with the Minnesota Orchestra and guests. Artistic director Andrew Litton.

Each summer, the Minnesota Orchestra unbuttons starched collars, trades in pumps for flipflops and throws bratwurst on the grill.

Conductor Andrew Litton is increasingly in demand in Europe. But he's decided to continue summering in Minnesota.

The Minnesota Beethoven Festival opens Tuesday with a free outdoor concert by the Minnesota Orchestra at the Lake Park bandshell.

The Minnesota Orchestra has won the 2008 John S. Edwards Award for Strongest Commitment to New American Music, awarded by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and the League of American ...

Listen to feature audio St. Paul, Minn. - Internationally known soprano Karen Clift got her start in Minnesota.

A new twist was added to the Minnesota Orchestra's Symphony Ball Saturday night.

What: In a revised program, Osmo Vanska conducts music by Jennifer Higdon , Rachmaninoff , Tchaikovsky and Gershwin.

A last-minute cancellation and an altered program produced what is probably the most theatrical Minnesota Orchestra program in recent memory.

Percussionists are regarded as the rowdies of an orchestra. While others in the ensemble may need to go to the gym to blow off some steam, those who wield the sticks at the back of the band are able to vent in ...

After an absence of four years, Helmuth Rilling has returned to conduct concerts by the Minnesota Orchestra - and, not surprisingly, it's mostly a choral program.

The Minnesota Symphony Orchestra is premiering a new work by Osmo Vanska, conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra, that's inspired in part by the collapse of the I-35W bridge.

The Minnesota Symphony Orchestra is premiering a new work by Minnesota Orchestra conductor Osmo Vanska, called "The Bridge." It's inspired in part by the collapse of the I-35W bridge last summer.

“But Bill was very stubborn and said I have to do it”

Osmo Vnsk, composer, has struck again. The music director of the Minnesota Orchestra has knocked out a new work titled "Bridges" that will have its premiere on Sunday with the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. via Star Tribune

“Schubert's 'Unfinished' Symphony”

Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 9 in D major is a monumental work, not just in its 90-minute length, but in the emotional territory it traverses. via Star Tribune

The stage then was dominated by Robert F. Kennedy and -- says transplanted Hoosier and Cleveland State professor Rick Perloff -- in many ways Kennedy remains the model of the plain-speaking candidate who could ... via WKSU-FM Kent