The Orchestra News

Memorial Day 2013-the unofficial kick-off for summer-is Monday, May 27, but concerts, fireworks and other events last all of Memorial Day weekend throughout DC and Northern Virginia.

Graduates of Reading Southern Junior High/Middle School are invited to the Southern Alumni Association's reunion May 31.

Bill Holman is a man with many milestones. Known primarily for years of unique and complex arrangements, Holman's continuing and long-running career as a composer and saxophonist reaches another milestone this month when he will be awarded the title of NEA Jazz Master.

Dean Adams, director of the Ventura Jazz Orchestra, plays a song as part of the Friday night jazz hour for residents of Los Robles Care Center in Ojai.

It was almost exactly a year ago that the Detroit Symphony Orchestra hired violinist Yoonshin Song as its concertmaster.

Tickets go on sale for Lincoln Center 's Midsummer Night Swing starting Wednesday, May 22.

Rather like the swirling cameras employed by directors of BBC Two's Later, Jools Holland and His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra is increasingly revolving around the diminutive figure in black rather than featuring him as a main player.

Two Concerts Of Video Games Live! , Battleship Potemkin Film, And Classical Concerts Are Highlights Of Summer and The Symphony With San Francisco Symphony Orchestra performs free concerts at Stern Grove Festival and in Dolores Park and presents annual Fourth of July concert with fireworks at Shoreline Amphitheatre; Orchestra to perform at America's ... (more)

As part of the "A Moment in Time" Series, The Capitol Center Orchestra, under the direction of Clayton J. Poole, will pay tribute to Count Basie today, May 19th at 4:00pm. The tribute features drummer and Basie alumnus Butch Miles.

PAYING TRIBUTE: The late Count Basie, a jazz pianist, organist, bandleader and composer, led his big-band orchestra for nearly 50 years.

An outdoor concert event, "Jazz Under the Stars," will be held at 7 p.m. on Friday, June 14, in the courtyard at Manville High School.

Broken. Boarded up. A blight! Hundreds of thousands drive by it every week, so why hasn't the city done anything about the eyesore that is the Spanish Trail Motel? It's an historic site marked with decades of memories followed by years of neglect.

By any measure, what happened at Glasgow's City Halls over the weekend was an astonishing event, with a sizeable thirsty audience lapping up experimental music that ranged from a residency by a remarkable octogenarian American to improvisation by some of our own top names in modern rock and embraced a clutch of premieres of fine new music for the ... (more)

In anticipation of the upcoming big band concert featuring a new arrangement of “Porgy and Bess,” Jazz Artists of Charleston is presenting its third JAC Talk on Thursday at Redux Contemporary Art Center, 136 St.

Think of the Pacific Mambo Orchestra as party insurance. Booking this 19-piece Latin band offers a guarantee that an event will attain the heat necessary for a dance floor conflagration.

When I attended the Mayor's Arts Awards ceremony a few weeks ago, a member of the Whatcom Symphony Orchestra told me that the new director for the symphony had just been chosen, and this particular musician was thrilled.

It's May and entertainment options are sprouting like the crabgrass in your lawn.

Going strong after 78 years, one of the most celebrated big bands of all time, The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra, is coming to Grass Valley for a special concert presented by The Center for the Arts today.

Big band, community band and bluegrass tunes will fill the gymnasium of Oceanside West Sunday afternoon, May 19, as the second annual Les Richards Scholarship Concert raises funds for middle-school music education a and raises spirits for all.

Crosby, Stills and Nash surprised the audience with a new look when they walked onstage dressed in dark gray Brooks Brothers suits for a benefit concert with Wynton Marsalis' Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.