Symphony News

PBS. I've recently become aware of the wonderful work of musician John Boswell, thanks to a tweet from the American Humanist Association's twitter page .

Monday, 9 November 2009, 9:47 am Press Release: Robin Maconie Widespread disbelief at NZSO digital home proposal "Naive", "desperate", and "a hoax" are among disbelieving responses to the Grow Wellington launched Lilburn Studio Trust bid to garner funds for a curiously styled $20 million digital centre for the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra to ...

ARTS HUB: An artist's impression of the planned digital centre. A $20 million digital centre, where the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra will record musical scores for films, is planned for Wellington.

Retired radiologist Albert Hurwit knows a thing or two about success. The Hartford, Conn., resident - and grandfather of eight - has a pedigree fine enough to make any mother kvell.

DMN Newswire--2009-11-2--The premiere of '' Amanpour '' on CNN represents a pivotal new chapter in the career of the news network's chief international correspondent, Christiane Amanpour .

In his own music, Erickson initially worked in a style influenced by the contemporary European masters that held his fascination, including Berg and Schoenberg as well as Krenek.

The Butler University Wind Ensemble, conducted by Robert Grechesky, will welcome a concertmaster from the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra as soloist for the first time at a concert Sunday.

Insight Sports Ltd., a leading North American sports media and entertainment company based in Toronto, has announced the launch of a powerful new sales system for its specialty television network GameTV.

Strolling back from the Washington Pavilion the other day, a small HD digital video camera strapped over my shoulder and a tiny digital audio recorder in my shirt pocket, I realized how far newspapers have come since I started in the business.

Benefit Concert: Tuesday, October 27, 6:30 PM. $100 As part of the show, a pre-premiere of "Dual Synthesis" for harpsichord and 1-bit electronics will take place in a private benefit concert on October 27.

Some 1,903 concertgoers knew "the way to San Jose," or at least found their way to Symphony Hall on Saturday night to hear pop diva Dionne Warwick sing the Burt Bacharach classic "Do You Know The Way To San Jose" along with a selection of her other hits from nearly half a century in the entertainment business.

Conductor Riccardo Muti said Wednesday the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will reach out to at-risk youth, including incarcerated juvenile offenders, after he takes over as music director next September.

Music could be defined as emotion translated into sound. The dictionary definition gets more complicated.

TO augment its regular season, Symphony Silicon Valley offers something new, a concert presentation of Cole Porter's musical Kiss Me Kate , complete with full orchestra, lead singers and a chorus.

In a pair of distinctly different pieces, the Virginia Symphony Orchestra showed off a range of talents in its concert Saturday evening at Chrysler Hall.

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Buried Treasures: Winnipeg Rock Gems 1958-1974 FOLLOWING last year's The Best of Franklin Records, a collection of long-lost Winnipeg recordings, Super Oldies has dug deeper into the vaults to come up with this two-disc companion piece that unearths more rare gems.

Over his years as a guest conductor with the San Francisco Symphony, David Robertson has made a hallmark of combining unusual new works with repertory staples in ways that - at their best - illuminate both.

Ever since it got the pure synth-pop bug out of its system on its debut, 1998's Moon Safari , Air hasn't been afraid to come at its music from the angle of experimental producers ready to change things up in pursuit of a new idea to embed in its pop -- 10,000 Hz Legend and Pocket Symphony -- or as cloying, almost pandering to the masses cowards -- ...

Pink Martini joins forces with the Oregon Symphony. A few years ago, I was temporarily addicted to a BBC America TV show called "Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares." The pugnacious and profane British chef Gordon Ramsay would go to a struggling restaurant, order a few things and then attempt to cajole or browbeat the owner into changing what he was doing.