Boston Symphony Orchestra

Did you guys pick up copies of the new BSO album releases when I first told you about them at the start of the year (here)? If you didn't yet, you're going to want to now, because one of those recordings just earned the BSO three Grammy nominations.James Levine and the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s recording of Ravel’s complete Daphnis and Chloé, featuring the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor, has been nominated for Grammy...  

Rozlyn Sorrell is a diva. No, not that kind of diva. Sorrell is the kind of diva who can hit octaves with her voice that cause people to realize they are truly beginning to understand the meaning of song, and hold notes for lengths of time that would bring envy to deep-sea divers.  

By: Jacqueline LacyWorld famous violinist Joshua Bell performed his final performance on the Boston Symphony Orchestra stage Tuesday night with Brahms’ “Violin Concerto in D, Opus 77.” The symphony brought power and the performances were accented by incred...  

The Topeka-raised, Boston-based soprano who put the bow on the Topeka Symphony Orchestra's holiday concert will do so again Wednesday night when Kristen Watson solos at the ensemble's "Deck the Halls" pops concert.read more  

While the Boston Symphony Orchestra has been tapped in the past, on Thursday the organization got its breakthrough nod for an orchestral recording that it produced completely in-house, without a record label.  

BOSTON, Oct. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As part of the BSO's celebration of the 50th anniversary of its Youth Concert Series last year, the orchestra announced a new partnership with the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras (BYSO) for the 2009-10 season. The first event in this collaboration will take place on Saturday, November 14, at noon, with Federico Cortese leading BYSO in a performance of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf at Symphony Hall...  

Winter hasn't even arrived but the Boston Symphony Orchestra is already planning for summer. The BSO announced Friday that its 2010 Tanglewood season will begin on July 9 with conductor James Levine (Leh-VINE') leading the orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No. 2.  

By: Jacqueline LacyThe Boston Symphony Orchestra presented an upbeat program during the past two weeks, primarily focused upon Igor Stravinsky’s “Petrushka,” a Burlesque in four scenes produced in 1947....  

"This is Symphony Hall, not a rock concert," the stern, silk vest wearing Boston Symphony Orchestra employee admonished as fellow Ben Folds fanatics attempted to open the doors during a song. "Wait for the applause!" she demanded. On Oct. 2, Ben Folds lit up Symphony Hall with the mellifluous accompaniment of the Boston Pops Orchestra.  

The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s conductor emeritus Bernard Haitink is back on the podium this week. The conductor turned 80 in March, an occasion the orchestra is officially celebrating with these concerts. Last night in Symphony Hall, a stool on the podium, used only during breaks, seemed the one concession to Haitink’s ninth decade; the conductor generally looked vital and as ...  

Music Review | Boston Symphony OrchestraNew York TimesIts own music director, James Levine, is said to be testing the patience of the Boston audience with his particular brand of new-music programming, ...and more »  

The Boston Symphony Orchestra will open its summer season at Tanglewood on July 9 with a performance of Mahler’s Second Symphony under the baton of James Levine. In a Mahler-filled summer for Levine, he will also lead the BSO in the composer’s Fourth Symphony, and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra in the Third Symphony. The BSO announced these and other ...  

The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s complete cycle of Beethoven symphonies has entered its home stretch, as last night the BSO unveiled the fourth and final program of the series, featuring the Eighth and Ninth Symphonies.  

Reprinted from late editions of yesterday’s Globe The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s conductor emeritus Bernard Haitink is back on the podium this week. The conductor turned 80 in March, an occasion the orchestra is officially celebrating with these concerts. Thursday night in Symphony Hall, a stool on the podium, used only during breaks, seemed the one concession to Haitink’s ninth decade; ...  

The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s complete cycle of Beethoven symphonies has entered its home stretch, as Thursday night the BSO unveiled the fourth and final program of the series, featuring the Eighth and Ninth Symphonies.  

The Boston Symphony Orchestra is not catching many breaks these days from the podium. Sir Andrew Davis has withdrawn from this week’s set of concerts because of a family illness, and the Frenchman Yan Pascal Tortelier has stepped in, making his ...  

Time is short this morning - jury duty continues - so I'm simply going to give you the press release direct from the Boston Symphony Orchestra with all the plans for next summer's Tanglewood season, including the return of Seiji...  

The Boston Symphony Orchestra regularly makes available concerts to MIT students free of charge under the CollegeCard program which is also subsidized by the MIT Office of Arts. More details are available at http://web.mit.edu/arts/see/freetickets/.  

'Amateur orchestras are music's lifeblood'We know nothing about most of the music-making that happens in this country. There are hundreds of thousands of people whose musical lives go almost completely unreported, but whose talents, energy and concerts are the lifeblood of our musical scene.In London alone, there are nearly 150 amateur and youth orchestras and ensembles. This weekend I heard the Fulham Symphony Orchestra play its winter...  

Boston Symphony Orchestra music director James Levine will not be back to conduct in Symphony Hall until January, the BSO said yesterday. Originally expected to return from back surgery last week, Levine will now miss the complete cycle of nine Beethoven symphonies that he had programmed and the BSO had promoted enthusiastically.  

In honor of Veterans Day on Wednesday, the Boston Symphony Orchestra is offers a pair of free tickets to the Thursday night performance at Symphony Hall to any active member of the military. The concert features Italian conductor Fabio Luisi...  

Violin virtuoso Joshua Bell will perform Brahms’s Violin Concerto when he joins the Boston Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of conductor Sir Andrew Davis, for a program of Thanksgiving week concerts that will also include Debussy’s ...  

By Sarang Kulkarni In the final concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s The Complete Symphonies series, celebrated conductor Lorin Maazel led the orchestra to a remarkable performance of Beethoven’s Eighth and Ninth Symphonies. Maestro Maazel, former Music Director of the New York Philharmonic, conducted the orchestra in the last two episodes of the series in place of Maestro Levine.  

When he announced this season’s Beethoven symphony cycle, Boston Symphony Orchestra music director James Levine admitted an ulterior, fill-in-the-blank motive: He had never conducted Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony in concert. Because of his surgery, Levine still hasn’t conducted the Fourth, but BSO assistant conductor Julian Kuerti has, twice in the space of one month: First on harpist Ann Hobson Pilot’s farewell ...  

Reprinted from late editions of yesterday’s Globe. The Boston Symphony Orchestra has a strong record of bringing in talented young guest conductors on their way up. The latest to visit Symphony Hall is Vasily Petrenko, who made his BSO debut Thursday night. The 33-year-old Russian is chief conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, which has extended his contract to ...  

The organizers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra's concert in New York City's Carnegie Hall had to work very hard to find a last minute conductor for yesterday's concert as it became apparent that James Levine would not be able to direct the concert. An Italian conductor Daniele Gatti took the place of Mr. Levine to to direct the opening concert of the 119th season's opening of Carnegie Hall.  

I have only one recording of Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), his most famous work the Symphonie Fantastique. It is one of the many re-releases of the RCA Victor "Living Stereo" recordings, this one featuring the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Munch.The work is a bit autobiographical. It seems that Berlioz had what for a while was a one-sided love affair with an Irish actress, Harriet Smithson. The symphony is a program work (for...  

The Boston Symphony Orchestra has a strong record of bringing in talented young guest conductors on their way up. The latest to visit Symphony Hall is Vasily Petrenko, who made his BSO debut last night. The 33-year-old Russian is chief conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, which has extended his contract to 2015. British papers like to refer to ...  

I said Oct. 22 seemed mighty optimistic. James Levine has revised the date of his return to the podium for the Boston Symphony Orchestra to Oct. 28, missing part of the much-anticipated full cycle of Beethoven symphonies. To me that...  

Ann Hobson Pilot, who retired last season as principal harpist after 40 years with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, returned to Symphony Hall on Saturday for an eclectic farewell, a chance to front the orchestra to which she gave such subtle, elegant spine for so long. With BSO assistant conductor Shi-Yeon Sung replacing James Levine on the podium, Pilot took the ...  

For the third time in his five years leading the Boston Symphony Orchestra, music director James Levine will miss time on the podium due to injury. Levine, 66, announced yesterday that he will undergo surgery for a herniated spinal disk.  

The manager for James Levine says the conductor is withdrawing from upcoming performances with the Metropolitan Opera and Boston Symphony Orchestra. Ronald Wilford says the 67-year-old music director is planning to have surgery for a herniated disk in his back. Levine conducted the opening night performance of Puccini's "Tosca" at the Met on Sept. 21. He has canceled two performances at the Met since then but conducted at the Boston Symphony...  

Carnegie Hall kicks off its season in New York with a new work by prolific Hollywood composer John Williams. It's a concerto for harp and orchestra, and Williams wrote it specifically for Ann Hobson Pilot. For the past 40 years she's been the Principal Harpist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She was the first African American woman to win a seat with the BSO, and one of the first in any major symphony. Now she's ready to enjoy the music...  

In just a few weeks, November 10th to be exact, Asia's oldest orchestra, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, will embark on a historic tour of North America, starting at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Under the direction of Maestro Long Yu, the SSO will perform in twelve cities in the US and Canada (listed below) in celebration of the orchestra's 130th anniversary as well as the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China. Unfortunately...  

By Sarang Kulkarni Conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos led the Boston Symphony Orchestra to a fabulous performance in a sold-out program featuring Beethoven’s Symphony Nos. 1, 2 and 5.  

The good thing for an orchestra touring with a virtuoso like pianist Yuja Wang, as the Shanghai Symphony is currently doing, is that it makes people want to come to your concerts. The catch is trying to get them to notice you - because really, when Wang is...  

You’d think people who work so closely, in such tight order, who have been training all their lives and who practice so much, would be a lot alike. But after that last ovation, they’re on their own. And as it turns out that, when they’re free of the baton, the KSO is full of individualists. They might stand out in a crowd even if you didn’t know about their symphony association.  

Beginning Saturday, downtown visitors can bid on decorated tabletop, 4-foot Christmas trees and aid a Cape Ann institution. The Cape Ann Symphony is hosting a Festival of Holiday Trees silent auction this Saturday through Dec. 5. The auction features 20 trees imaginatively decorated in a variety of styles by people and businesses of Cape Ann.  

The Boston Civic Symphony will open its 85th season with a family concert titled "Meet the Orchestra" on Sunday, Oct. 18 at 2 p.m. at the Fine Arts Center at Regis College in Weston. The concert will be preceded by an Instrument Petting Zoo for preschoolers presented by Leonard’s Music and Johnson String Instruments.  

Conductor James Levine out of commission until DecemberLos Angeles TimesJames Levine, the ailing music director of the Metropolitan Opera and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is having back surgery for a herniated spinal disc this ...Arts, Briefly Replacement Conductors Named for James LevineNew York TimesIn BSO's hour of need, young conductor displays triumphant poiseBoston GlobeCarnegie Hall Opening Night-Boston Symphony Orchestra and James...  

The violinist Marylou Speaker Churchill, a deeply admired performer and teacher who, in 23 years as a principal player in the Boston Symphony Orchestra came to be seen as a beacon of engaged and empathic musicianship, died late Tuesday at her home in ...  

By Joyce KwanSTAFF WRITERJames Levine led the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a sold-out show of spiritual awakening last Saturday at Symphony Hall, presenting Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms and Mozart’s Requiem in D minor.  

Ludovic Morlot is guest conductor with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra.Seattle TimesA decade later, Morlot became assistant conductor to James Levine at the Boston Symphony Orchestra. His career rapidly developed, and included appearances ...and more »  

Boston GlobeInnovative new conductors in LA, NY challenge the BSO to do moreBoston GlobeThe Boston Symphony Orchestra should be taking note. Back surgery has recently sidelined BSO music director James Levine, who is now scheduled to return to ...Venezuela's winning system for saving children through musicToronto Starall 13 news articles »  

More than 50 people from Alexandria and the surrounding area have come together to share their love of making music, as members of a newly-formed community orchestra. The idea for a community orchestra started two years ago when area residents posed ...  

BOSTON - The return of Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor James Levine after back surgery has been delayed a second time. The BSO announced today that recently retired...  

Brockton Symphony Orchestra kicks off another season on SundayWicked Local Brockton“In those days you didn't get to Boston to hear the symphony and the recordings weren't like they are now,” said Lindsay, 75. So Lindsay has seen first-hand ...and more »  

"People are saying that China will be the largest musical country in the future," said Long Yu, the conductor of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. "They talk about 30 million kids learning piano in China. Of course, we will not have 30 ...  

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Arts, Briefly No Beethoven's Fourth for Levine, for NowNew York TimesThat was to have changed with this year's cycle of Beethoven symphonies by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, where he is music director. ...and more »  

On-to-One with Conductor Kent NaganoDeutsche Welle... early professional years were spent in Boston, working in the opera house and as assistant conductor to Seiji Ozawa at the Boston Symphony Orchestra. ...  

Delivering doses of sweet harmonyBoston GlobeAs musicians from the Longwood Symphony Orchestra played selections from Dvorak's “American Quartet,'' 50 Vietnamese immigrants, ...and more »