Cartoon Music Meets Skilled Musicianship in SD

The Queen’s Cartoonists will appear on the Brookings Chamber Music Society season on Nov. 19. Perfectly synchronizing their performances with the films projected on stage, the band matches the energy […]

Radiohead Meets Brahms in Detroit

On Jan. 8, the Detroit Symphony explores the potential symphonic grandeur of Radiohead’s 1997 album OK Computer with an orchestration of those celebrated tracks. With Steve Hackman at the podium, […]

Atlanta Concertmaster Conducts and Solos in Vivaldi

Atlanta Symphony concertmaster David Coucheron gets the solo spotlight on Jan. 12 when the orchestra performs Vivaldi’s effervescent masterpiece, The Four Seasons, which Coucheron will both play and conduct. The […]

His and Hers Mahler Works in Montreal

Gustav was not the only one in the Mahler household who composed beautiful music. On Jan 16-17, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, conducted by Rafael Payare, will present Five Lieder […]

A.I. vs Human Beethoven in Spokane

It’s controversial but perhaps inevitable. Artificial has been used to complete Beethoven’s Symphony No. 10. The Spokane Symphony will play that version (premiered in Germany in 2021) on Jan. 18-19, […]

Austin: New Twist on ‘Fin de siècle’

Although “Fin de siècle” most commonly refers to the turn of the 19th into the 20th century, any century mark can be construed as important in music history. The Austin […]

Multi-Composers’ Tribute to Bach in Mobile

Arcis Saxophon Quartett closes the Mobile Chamber Music season with a kaleidoscopic tribute to J.S. Bach. Works on the March 16 concert include excerpts from Nikolai Kapustin’s 24 Preludes and […]

Women Load the Bases at Lyric Opera of Orange Co.

Diana Farrell will direct the Lyric Opera of Orange County’s production of The Mighty Casey, a baseball-themed opera by William Schuman. LOOC hints that their version will be presented “with […]

New Hampshire: Student Art for Space Music

Local students will illustrate the New Hampshire Philharmonic’s April 12-13 space-inspried program. These artistic interpretations of music will accompany Holst’s The Planets Mason Bates’ The B Sides, with its other-worldly […]

Peer Gynt Onstage in St. Louis

While Grieg’s Peer Gynt is an orchestral standard, staging the work is a novel idea. This production, written and directed by Bill Barclay adapted from the play by Henrik Ibsen, […]

Living Composers Acknowledge Beethoven in NYC

In an intriguing twist, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center is celebrating Beethoven with a concert of music by other people. The May 13 line-up includes works by living […]

Father-Son Collaboration in Harrisburg

On May 17-18, the Harrisburg Symphony will play the world premiere of a new work by Zev Malina, son of music director Stuart Malina. As the program’s name, “Malina Madness […]

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