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GREENSBORO — Rock ’n’ roll meets classical music for a combination the Trans-Siberian Orchestra is more than happy to deliver. Last Wednesday, the Greensboro Coliseum was packed with concertgoers ready to hear the world-renowned group. The...  

On March 16, 2009, Serj Tankian, a Grammy Award winner and one of rock's most unconventional frontmen, took the stage at the majestic Auckland Town Hall in New Zealand with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra to perform a very special orchestral interpretation of his critically acclaimed debut solo album "Elect the Dead".  

After all these years, conductor Fritz Reiner's 1955 recording of Bartok's music remains the best. He understood the poignant, brooding, mysterious and exuberant moods it explores, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra plays as if it has been set on fire.  

New Mexico Symphony Orchestra Player's Association says musicians will take a 23 percent pay cut The musicians and management of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra have reached agreement on a new labor contract. That's the word from the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra Player's Association. The association said in a news release Sunday that the musicians have ratified a contract that will mean a 23 percent pay cut. The news release said that...  

David Archuleta and the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra at Hill Auditorium.photo courtesy of the Ann Arbor Symphony OrchestraI’ll admit, after the first half of pop singer David Archuleta’s concert with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra Friday night, I was struggling......  

Detroit Symphony Orchestra's Slatkin to stay out 3 more weeks following heart ...Detroit Free PressDetroit Symphony Orchestra music director Leonard Slatkin won't be back on the podium at Orchestra Hall until next year. ...and more »  

Dee and Chalres Wyly hosted Dallas Symphony Orchestra Music Director Jaap van Zweden at their Preston Hollow Home last week for a Dallas Symphony Orchestra League Benefit. • Follow us: Facebook | Twitter • In print: Pick us up...  

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By DIANE UPCHURCH Entertainment critic Recently, Garland County students were bussed to the Lakeside School fieldhouse to listen to an Arkansas Symphony Concert program Landscapes in Music compliments of the Hot Springs/Hot Springs Village symphony guild. The students listened attentively to the six pieces played by the orchestra. read more  

BOONE—Nancy Bargerstock is the featured violinist during the Dec. 3 Appalachian Symphony Orchestra performance at Appalachian State University. The program begins at 8 p.m. in Farthing Auditorium. Admission is free. The orchestra is directed by James Allen Anderson. Bargerstock is the soloist for Beethoven’s “Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61.” The orchestra also will perform Respighi’s [...]  

St. Louis AmericanDvorak's Symphony For A 'New World'KUARThe London Symphony Orchestra, led by Hungarian conductor Istvan Kertesz, really gives the Symphony No. 9 a sense of forward momentum. ...Ward Stare leads St. Louis Orchestra hrough New World SymphonySt. Louis AmericanKSU dance show to evoke recessionAkron Beacon Journalall 4 news articles »  

You’d never know it living in Springfield, but Abraham Lincoln is not the only historic figure celebrating a bicentennial birthday. This weekend, the Illinois Symphony Orchestra celebrates the 200th anniversary of Felix Mendelssohn's birth with an all-Mendelssohn program.  

Harrisburg Symphony OrchestraMusic director Stuart Malina has agreed to a five-year contract extension with Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra.Stuart Malina, currently celebrating his 10th anniversary as conductor of Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, has agreed to remain at the podium for at least five...  

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 ...  

Nov. 21, 2009 The Huntington Symphony Orchestra Seeking to raise Funding with Internet Search Special to Huntingtonnews.net What if Huntington Symphony Orchestra earned a donation every time you searched the Internet? Or how about if a percentage of every purchase you made online went to support the HSO eductional program? Well, now it can! ...