Orchestras

Few operas by great Italian composers have been premiered in London. One of them is Zingarian act verism opera by Leoncavallo, best known for Pagliacci. The premiere took place in 1912 at the Hippodrome, a variety theater praised…

BY MURRAY BISHOFF, LEAD CONTRIBUTOR [email protected] Rehearsals began Sept. 6 at the Monett High School Performing Arts Center for the Ozark Festival Orchestra's 43rd season, under the direction of its new…

The Summerville Orchestra has announced that DeAnndra Glenn is the inaugural Director and Education Coordinator of the new Summerville Orchestra Youth Philharmonic and Educational Program. Glenn has taught strings to students of all…

Gemma New begins her fourth and final season as Principal Guest Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra with a dream concert series featuring The planets by Gustav Holst, from September 15 to 17 at the Meyerson Symphony…

From Bach in September to Shostakovich in May, the Boston Symphony Orchestra will take audiences on a far-reaching musical journey when the BSO begins its season in Boston on September 22, which also includes several free chamber music…

Ian Gillan will embark on a Spanish tour in November. On the six-date hike, the 77-year-old DARK PURPLE singer will be joined by the Prague Philharmonic Orchestraconducted by the German conductor Friedemann Riehle.Earlier today (Monday…

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For its last outdoor performance of the calendar year, the Lake County Symphony Orchestra travels to Hollywood and Broadway. The orchestra will perform favorite film and stage highlights when it returns Sept. 11 to Buffalo Creek Brewing in…

NUR-SULTAN – The open-air concert of the Kurmangazy Folk Instrument Orchestra gathered more than 500 guests in the Ayusai Gorge, located in the Almaty region, on August 20, the press service reported. by Qazaq Geography. Photo credit:…

SHANGHAI — For the past two months, Li Chenxiao has spent an hour a day practicing the zhongruan, a traditional Chinese plucked string instrument, at a speed of more than 200 beats per minute.…

THE CENTER – The Imperial Valley Symphony, though small but mighty, began its 2022-2023 season with about 25…

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Knights Orchestra returns to the Clark to celebrate the current exhibition Rodin in the United States: Confronting Modernity. This free outdoor concert takes place on the Fernández Terrace near Clark's…

Rumbling graves and the tinkling of bells rang out in Benjamin Britten's War Requiem at the Concert Hall on Friday; stupendous chords and whispers in the choir intoning a plea for eternal peace – a hope that Britten and her poet-elect…

The 2022-2023 season of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) opens on September 10 and 11 with the incomparable Anne Akiko Meyers performing Arturo Márquez's new violin concerto Fandango.The work was commissioned by Ms. Meyers and…

Clarksville, TN - Entering its second year with the Community School of the Arts at Austin Peay State University, the Clarksville Youth Orchestra (CYO) will have fall auditions on Monday, August 29 from 5:00-8:00 p.m. Parents can reserve an…

The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) will make a triumphant return to Australia in April-May 2023 with internationally acclaimed conductor Sir Simon Rattle leading his final season as LSO Music Director. Among the best orchestras in the…

JACKSON, Tenn. - The Jackson-Madison County Bicentennial Celebration is held year-round to celebrate 200 years of city and county history. Guests filled the seats as the Jackson-Madison County Bicentennial hosted the closing ceremony,…

'Confronting and 'hugely traumatic' show on tour across Australia leaves people speechless as some admit they wish they could have WALKED OUTAustralian Chamber Orchestra's 'The Crowd & I' leaves viewers 'traumatized'It's a…

SCOTTISH classical musicians from the Royal Conservatoire are set to join American hip-hop artists who are "pushing the limits" for an inspiring performance at the Edinburgh Fringe. Mozart, Beethoven and Bach will be reinvented by…

Conductor Shiyeon Sung. Photo / Adrien Malloch The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's Firebird concert was a well-timed festival of color, culminating in an electrifying Stravinsky ballet suite. Shiyeon Sung's stick was as sharp…

Image by Gerd Altmann (CC0C/Pixabay) Teenagers on TikTok are streaming orchestral music and leading what some are calling a revival of the art form. At the height of the COVID pandemic, musicians were forced off stage and online,…

TRANSCRIPTION:Michael Jewett: Friday night in Detroit, the NYO National Youth Orchestra of Carnegie Hall is in Detroit at the Fisher Center for, well, their first performance in our area. And to…

(Courtesy of Teatro Real) Winner of the "Best Opera Company" at the 2021 International Opera Awards, the Real Theater (The Royal Opera House of Madrid) will make its US debut in "A Celebration of Spanish Music" concert at Carnegie…

By Lawrence A. Johnson Carlos Kalmar conducted the Grant Park Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No. 9 on Friday night at the Harris Theatre. Photo: Norman Timonera The last weekend in July is invariably an artistically fortuitous time…

The La Porte County Symphony Orchestra offers internships for students.The organization says one of the best ways to inspire and teach talented young musicians is to give them the chance to perform alongside seasoned musicians – both in…

Decades ago, my father, a distinguished scholar who knew a little about what it was like to be a poor musician, hired a whole team of ambitious, empire-building politicians and musicians to fight their project. to create a single…

CSO chamber ensemble at the Museum. Photo: Martin Olman Arts week has started well, read all about it; it is HELEN MUSE "Artsday" section. The next concert in the CANBERRA Symphony Orchestra's Australian series 'Collective…

Markus Stenz conducted the Grant Park Orchestra in the music of Still, Rachmaninoff and Bartók on Friday night. Photo: Norman Timonera The Grant Park Orchestra had a particularly successful outing on Friday night under guest…

Maybe it's a little naive or sentimental on my part, but I believe you make music better with people you care about. Part of the reason the bond between me and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra is so strong is that we genuinely care about each…

LANCASTER – The Lancaster Festival returns in full splendor this year from July 21 to July 30 after dealing with COVID-19 issues for the past two years.The festival board canceled it completely in 2020. It returned last year, but in a…

BALTIMORE-- The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performed the musical score for Toy Story on Sunday, with a twist.The film plays while the musicians provide the soundtrack."It really transforms the Meyerhoff into a movie theater and is…

Michael Bublé just put his own spin on one of the biggest songs of the last year. Performing live on the BBC, the 46-year-old jazz singer added a new sense of maturity and cinema to Olivia Rodrigo's 'Driver's License' - proving you're…

The Aiken Symphony Guild recently received notice from the office of the South Carolina Secretary of State…

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The conductor Giordano Bellincampi offers a brilliant show. Photo / Adrien MallochVerdi's Requiem won the hearts of some harsh critics from its first performances.In Vienna, the curator Eduard Hanslick was pleasantly surprised by its…

Who is John Wilson?John Wilson, a BBC Proms favourite, is a British conductor, arranger and musical scholar, probably best known for his hugely popular programs of light music - which he often performs with his own ensemble, the John Wilson…

Three finalists have been selected to compete for the Music Trust's Freedman Classical Fellowship 2022, after an extensive search for Australia's most creative classical musicians aged 35 and under.The finalists for the 2022 Freedman…

The performance will begin something like this: the “A” note of an oboe will ring out on the stage of the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, signaling the combined energies of a 100-piece orchestra to come to life like a great jungle cat.The…

The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra will perform at the Buttermilk Festival in Fond du Lac on Wednesday, June 29. It will be the 22 of the OSMn/a free concert of the Festival since the beginning of the tradition in 1992. The concert will…

Free events are to be held at Murrayfield Stadium, Murrayfield Ice Rink, Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh Playhouse and Usher Hall during the three-week event to acknowledge the welcome the city has given to the rest of the world since its…

Vestavia Hills resident and recent high school graduate Lydia Hanje fell in love with playing the trumpet at Pizitz Middle School. Her sister convinced her mother to let her join her and made Hanje follow suit. "My sister was in the…

VSOpland wrote the last of his three major ballets on American subjects in 1944/45 for the formidable dancer and choreographer Martha Graham and her company. It was originally composed to fit a storyline set in the Civil War, but Graham…

The Los Angeles Film Orchestra announces its first performance, Basil Poledouris: The Music and The Movies, at the Music Center's Walt Disney Concert Hall on July 22 at 8 p.m. PT. The orchestra, under the direction of Maestro Steven Allen…

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A month after the first rounds of the competition, the final round of the Dallas International Piano Competition is set. Organized by the Dallas Chamber Symphony, the competition will end on June 24 at Moody Performance…

The New Zealand chamber soloists are Katherine Austin (piano), James Tennant (cello) and Lara Hall (violin). Photo / ProvidedA trio of performers with extensive backgrounds bring their combined skills to Rotorua.New Zealand Chamber…

ANKARA The number of movie theaters decreased by 11.1%, while the number of cinema audiences decreased by 27.9% in 2021 compared to 2020, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) said.According to the country's…

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Seats are still available for tomorrow (Saturday) night's show at the Barnhill Center in Brenham featuring Nashville musical star Mandy Barnett, Always, Patsy Cline. Mandy Barnett(courtesy photo) Barnett's "Nashville!-->…

AAs a music student, I felt quite suffocated by the aesthetics of contemporary concert music, so to piss off my composition teachers, I created an unreleased piece featuring a chamber band and a rapper.Mission accomplished – they weren't…

London, United Kingdom - When Steel Talks sends congratulations to everyone involved in the historic musical production of the Great Orchestra of Steel for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee outside Buckingham Palace…

Papamoa's Craig McFarlane receives the Queen's Service Medal for his services to education and music in the 2022 Queen's Birthday and Platinum Jubilee Honors List. Craig had a career in education,…

The Rotterdam International Conducting Competition concluded its 2022 edition today. During the awards ceremony, the Grand Prize and €15,000 were awarded to Bertie Baigent while the audience award went to the Chilean conductor Luis Toro…

Pianist, composer and writer Stephen Hough CBE has been named a Knight for Services to Music in the Queen's Birthday Honors List 2022. He is the first British-born classical pianist to be named Sir since Sir Clifford Curzon in 1977.Born in…

An international piano competition in 1958 – the Tchaikovsky, in Moscow – made Texas-raised Van Cliburn an international celebrity overnight. At the height of Cold War tensions, his face was splashed on the front pages and he was…

SCHENECTADY – On Friday, June 5, at 3:00 p.m., the Capital Region Wind Ensemblewith Brett Werymusical director, presents "French Impressions" in the Taylor Auditorium at SUNY Schenectady School of Music. The Capital Region Wind Ensemble,…

The Slovakian capital of Bratislava, birthplace of Houston Symphony Designated Music Director Juraj Valcuha, is a cultural hub: close enough to Vienna, Budapest and Prague to make it an interesting place to grow up. The countryside is…

More than 900 students from public and private schools in Henry County recently had the chance to expand their musical interests in classical fashion. Henry for Music, Inc. recently welcomed clarinetist Igor Begelman and…

Ken Ichinose graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in London. Photo/Andrew EmpsonThe Manawatū Sinfonia will give an ambitious concert that almost did not take place this Saturday afternoon.A capricious lawyer nearly ended the farewell…

The above title is an often misquoted line from the pen of British playwright William Congreve, in his five-act tragedy, The Mourning Bride, written, produced and…

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Karl Frederick Kaub, engineer, musician, classic toy train enthusiast, collector and resident of Prescott, Arizona for 20 years, died March 3, 2022 at the age of 92. A native of Evansville, Indiana, Mr.…

(Photo credit: Bruno Fidrych) Over the orchestra's 67-year history, Yaniv Segal will only be the third musical director in the organization's existence. He was chosen among more than 100 candidates, after five concerts each conducted…

Conductor and chorus preparer James Bagwell. Photo: Daniel Gallois GREAT BARRINGTON – Live choral music in the Berkshires has taken a hit during the pandemic. Holiday concerts have been canceled…

McNary High School Performing Arts Groups held their celebration of music at the historic Elsinore Theater in Salem on Tuesday, May 3, in what is hoped to be the first of a new annual tradition. Carlos Sanchez plays…

A few years ago, Amalia​ Hall​ found an English school project when she was 13 years old. It was an autobiography and on the last page was a chapter called "Future Dreams". The young musician was adamant on this point: "I want to play…

If any orchestra can claim to have an infallible nose for new conducting talent, it's the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. In 1980, Simon Rattle arrived as a fresh-faced 25-year-old, and the next two conductors, Sakari Oramo and…

Ukrainian musician Kateryna Suprun knew she had to leave her home in kyiv as soon as Russia invaded her country in late February. She packed her viola and her 2-year-old daughter into a car and fled to Berlin. She left behind her life as a…

Today, black members of over forty orchestras announced the Black Orchestral Network (BON). BON is a collective of black orchestral musicians dedicated to creating an inclusive and equitable environment for black people in the orchestral…

Over the past decade, the Camunga Symphony Orchestra music school in Luanda has been polishing the rough diamonds of youth and changing their lives for the better. The school and the orchestra take their name from its founder Ntumba…

Photo credit: Carnegie HallCarnegie Hall has announced its full return season for 2022 to 2023, with more than 150 concerts scheduled.“Since reopening Carnegie Hall after its extended closure seven months ago, it has been inspiring to…

April 25, 2022 The Gateways Music Festival Orchestra made its Carnegie Hall debut on Sunday afternoon, April 24, with conductor Anthony Parnther (far right) and Grammy Award-winning…

By SALINA POSTFor a number of people, the upcoming Mid-America Performing Arts Alliance concert in Salina could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.The performing arts alliance has scheduled a piano trio concert at 7 p.m. on April 30 in…

The Gibraltar Philharmonic Society's next concert, a cello recital, will feature the renowned Steven Isserlis, accompanied by pianist Connie Shih. The concert will take place at the Convent Ballroom on April 26, 2022 at 8 p.m. Karel Mark…

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We've never really finished with Beethoven. Discovering and understanding his music is an endless quest. Most symphony orchestras would not consider a season complete without performing at least one of his nine symphonies. But the…

A new recruit moving from New Orleans to Tuscaloosa might take a bit of adjustment, adapting to a different pace and atmosphere, but the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra's new executive director, Natassia Perrine, has already lived in the city…

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The Anchorage Symphony Orchestra has announced that Artistic Advisor and Interim Conductor Elizabeth Schulze will be their next Music Director. Hailed by critics as "an ideal musical director whose contagious energy is as contagious as her…