(Visual Art, Classical Music, Los Angeles) The Orchestra will honor the mural and its artist, Kent Twitchell, during concerts this weekend at the Alex Theatre and Royce Hall. ...more...
Art News
KING-FM: Making the cut as a non-profit?
December 7, 2011
(Classical Music Radio, Seattle) It’s been more than six months since Seattle’s Classical KING-FM switched from commercial to listener-supported operations. ...more...
José Ayerve makes melancholy upbeat
December 7, 2011
(Music, Portland, ME) For a select few of us, the news of Spouse’s hiatus was a little bit heartbreaking. Not enough of us, though. ...more...
Music joins First Friday’s score with installation at Kauffman Center
December 7, 2011
(Classical Music, Kansas City) While the Kansas City Symphony plays Handel’s Messiah on Friday in Helzberg Hall, the Arts District Garage south of the Kauffman Center will feature new compositions by contemporary composers. ...more...
Apollo’s Fire garners rave reviews for tour concerts in U.S., Canada and Europe
December 7, 2011
(Classical Music, Cleveland) Apollo’s Fire, the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, appears to have made a lot of new friends during its recent domestic and international tour, which took the ensemble to stops in the United States, Canada, Spain, France and Portugal. ...more...
Minnesota Orchestra reports $2.9M deficit
December 7, 2011
(Classical Music, Minneapolis) The Minnesota Orchestra is yet another American orchestra feeling the financial pinch. ...more...
Interesting life leads church music composer to pen memoir
December 7, 2011
(Classical Music, Greensboro/Winston-Salem) Betty Carr Pulkingham has led such an interesting life that for years, friends recommended that the church music composer and Burlington native write a book. ...more...
BSO takes a new approach to the holidays
December 6, 2011
(Classical Music, Boston) Aerialists, contortionists, jugglers, hula-hoopsters and a couple of strongmen will be deployed to the strains of “O Holy Night,” “Sleigh Ride” and more. ...more...
His bluegrass record in the can, Yo-Yo Ma comes to Pittsburgh to play Dvorak
December 6, 2011
(Classical Music, Pittsburgh) Yo-Yo Ma’s playing Dvorak with the PSO tonight, for the first time under the baton of Manfred Honeck. ...more...
Curtis Institute of Music thrives amid uncertainty
December 5, 2011
(Classical Music, Philadelphia) Weak economy be damned; the Curtis Institute of Music continues to grow and prosper. ...more...
The Boston Symphony Orchestra would like a conductor, please
December 1, 2011
(Classical Music, Boston) Citing health concerns, Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly has pulled out of a series of planned concerts with the BSO. ...more...
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra experiments with TweetSeats
November 28, 2011
(Classical Music, Cincinnati) Bowing to modernity, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra has begun experimenting with TweetSeats, a small section of seats set aside for social networking. ...more...
An array of holiday shows on Anchorage stages
November 28, 2011
(Theater, Dance, Classical Music, Anchorage) There is no shortage of holiday spectacle on Anchorage’s stages in the coming weeks. ...more...
Youthful ‘Nutcracker’ at Billings’ Alberta Bair Theater
November 25, 2011
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Chapel Hill Community Chorus changes name
November 23, 2011
(Classical Music, Chapel Hill) The Chapel Hill Community Chorus has changed its name to the more general and evocative Voices and announced three upcoming performances. ...more...
Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Leonard Slatkin re-ups for three years
November 22, 2011
(Classical Music, Detroit) The Detroit Symphony Orchestra announced last week that it had resigned music director Leonard Slatkin to a new deal that runs through the 2015-16 season. ...more...
Cincinnati Symphony reaches contract agreement thanks to centenarian
November 22, 2011
(Classical Music, Cincinnati) 100-year-old arts patron Louise Dieterle Nippert has once again pledged significant money to the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra to forestall any potential interruption in the orchestra’s schedule. ...more...
Cleveland Orchestra’s 2010-11 report: some good, some bad
November 21, 2011
(Classical Music, Cleveland) The Cleveland Orchestra released its report for the 2010-11 fiscal year on Friday; while its reported deficit increased slightly, the overall picture is still one of health for the august institution, especially considering the woes of some other American orchestras in recent years. ...more...
Tanglewood’s 75th summer has some callbacks to its first
November 18, 2011
(Classical Music, Berkshire County) Every summer, the Boston Symphony Orchestra goes out to the Berkshires for a few weeks and plays a bunch of extraordinary music out among the trees and hills during a festival they call Tanglewood. Next summer’s season is the 75th anniversary, and the schedule that the BSO announced yesterday has a few callbacks to 1937 scattered throughout it, including the season-opening all-Beethoven concert July 6. ...more...
Guitarchestra brings lifelong dream to reality for Tulsa musician
November 11, 2011
(Jazz, Classical Music, Tulsa) Jerry West’s Guitarchestra, a nine-piece ensemble that reinvents works from the classical canon for multiple guitar, plays the Green Country Event Center next Thursday. ...more...
Gardner Museum’s Concert Hall Finds Its Voice
November 11, 2011
(Art Museums, Classical Music, Boston) With the opening of the Gardner Museum’s expansion on the horizon in January, final testing is taking place on the museum’s new concert space. ...more...
Dallas Symphony Near Insolvency
November 11, 2011
(Classical Music, Dallas) Another variation on a sad and familiar story is playing out in Dallas right now, where the Dallas Symphony has roughly ninety days left before bankruptcy. ...more...
L.A. Phil gears up for El Sistema-inspired symposium
November 10, 2011
(Classical Music, Los Angeles) The L.A. Philharmonic this week announced the schedule for the inaugural Take a Stand symposium, which will be held January 30-February 1 in L.A. ...more...
Herbie Hancock returns to his classical roots
November 10, 2011
(Jazz, Classical Music, Portland OR) Herbie Hancock started out as a classical musician, and he’ll return to those roots this Saturday at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, where he’ll play Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the Oregon Symphony. ...more...
Classical music diversity — or the lack of it
November 9, 2011
(Classical Music, National) ArtsJournal‘s Greg Sandow wonders why orchestras and other classical music institutions persist in not marketing to minorities. ...more...
