Symphony News

Oregon Symphony musicians will begin their season Saturday without a new contract.

The show will go on at Heinz Hall for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra after stagehands approved a two-year contract Sunday.

Conducted by Sir Colin Davis. The Planets carries the weight of innumerable summer performances, but this one is light on its feet.

Symphonic structure The Hall Orchestra plays Vaughan Williams in Derby, reviewed by MIKE WHEELER I suppose any performance of Vaughan Williams's London Symphony is going to be particularly poignant after 7 ...2.7

With the Detroit Symphony Orchestra entering its first season in 15 years without a music director on the payroll, the orchestra turned, logically, to the biggest celebrity in its extended musical family, ...

The concert on September 29 will raise money for the Hurricane Relief The Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Symphony Chorus with conductors Danail Rachev and David R. Davidson are set to perform a ...2.7

Angela Hill was apprehensive about attending the symphony. "I thought it was just a lot of old people going to listen to music.2.7

Grant Llewellyn says the first full season that he has constructed for the N.C ... Friday and Saturday in Meymandi Concert Hall, Progress Energy Center, Raleigh.2.9

"Long Day's Journey Into Night" by Eugene O'Neill, starring Rosemary Dunsmore and Albert Millaire, closed the 2004-2005 season of the Centaur Theatre, one of Montreal's most respected English language theaters.2.7

We belong to the sea whence we came, and our bond with nature's mightiest force is marked by intense affection, beauty and violence.2.7

News-Leader The Springfield Symphony Orchestra opens its 2005-2006 season Saturday night at Juanita K. Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts.2.7

Seattle Times music critic Seattle is a long way from New Orleans, but on Friday night the cities were side by side.2.7

Already an imposing part of the downtown cityscape, the Nashville Symphony's future home is reportedly on schedule and on budget to make its much-anticipated opening in September 2006.2.7

Cruise night | Whiting The next 119th Street Cruise Night sponsored by the Whiting/Robertsdale Chamber runs from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday in downtown Whiting.1.6

The Devil, as the cliche suggests, is in the details. And Alfred Savia and the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra opened the 71st season with healthy specimens of these demons.2.7

The Wichita Eagle On Broadway, there's nothing like a dame -- as some sailors stationed in the South Pacific sang one day.2.7

Summer was a bummer, entertainment-wise. Hollywood "blockbusters" wilted. Too many bands that charted their last hits in the Nixon era strutted their saggy stuff on concert stages.3.1

Local and national performing groups remain hopeful that a strike by stagehands would not force the cancellations of their upcoming events at the Benedum Center and Byham Theater.2.7

Atlanta Journal-Constitution - 15 September 2005 Robert Spano is zooming along in his life as a ... Spano comes off a summer at the Seattle Opera, where he led Wagner's four-opera, 16-hour Ring cycle.2.7

This weekend, smack dab in the middle of the 18th century, Chad Langford will finally hear a piece of music he's been writing for years.2.7

The undiminished talents of classical-music superstar cellist Yo-Yo Ma provided a particularly festive opening for the 45th anniversary season of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra.2.7

A world premiere by one of the nation's hottest composers, a renowned pianist and a historically informed reading by music director contender David Alan Miller added up to an exciting opening night for the ...2.7

One year remains before the 2,000-seat Ren e and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall and the 500-seat Samueli Theater are scheduled to open.2.7

Sioux City Symphony conductor Xian Zhang rehearses with the symphony Thursday at the Orpheum Theatre.3.2

Two perspectives on how humans relate to nature provided strong contrasts at the outstanding first concert of the Pittsburgh Symphony's Mellon Grand Classics subscription series Friday night.2.7

September 17. 2005 6:00AM Strike it up Daniel Meyer, the new conductor of the Asheville Symphony Orchestra, will launch the 2005-06 season with an 8 p.m. concert today at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium.3.1

If you regard Bartk's Concerto for Orchestra [ listen -- track 3, 0:00-1:09 ] primarily as a virtuoso orchestral showpiece then you may be disappointed with this performance.2.9

Of the five conductors being considered to become the new Akron Symphony music director, Christopher Wilkins has the most recognizable name.2.7

A rumor is floating out there that classical music is dead or dying, but don't tell our symphonies, chorales and various ensembles.2.7

Bernadette Peters returns to Norfolk to perform Broadway and more with the Virginia Symphony Pops.2.7

The accidental killing of Anton von Webern, 60 years ago next week, was a pivotal moment in modern culture.2.9

The program includes arias, duets, overtures and one symphony by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.2.9

The third International Sibelius Conductors' Competition was held in Helsinki on 12th to 15th September.2.7

Rumors of its demise have been greatly exaggerated. So say members of the Chamber Orchestra of the Ozarks who kick off their first season without David Goza, the group's long-time conductor.2.7

I t was a blowout party, the kind they'll talk about for years to come. The local punk house was being sold, and hundreds of people turned out for one last chance to live it up inside its hallowed walls.2.9