News on Orchestral Music

sir roger moore

2010-03-18T18:32:22Z

Sir Roger Moore attends a pre-concert symphony orchestra rehearsal in Moscow Conservatory. Moscow, Russia - 17.03.10

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LA lawyers put objections aside to make music

2010-03-19T11:30:27Z

<div id="subtitle">No objections sustained when the LA Lawyers Philharmonic decides it's time to play</div><div><p>If a defense attorney, a prosecutor and a judge were to walk into a music hall what would be the first thing they'd do?</p><p>"Spend a half-hour arguing legal motions," veteran Los Angeles lawyer David Waller says one of his colleagues tol...

A weekly snapshot of creative people living in the Las Vegas Valley

2010-03-19T02:18:16Z

<div id="subtitle">JANIS McKAY</div><div><p> Name: Janis McKay, bassoonist, professor</p><p>Age: 45</p><p>Education: BachelorÕs in music education, University of Georgia; masterÕs in performance, University of Louisville; doctorate in music per...

Theater Sondheim Celebration

2010-03-16T07:00:37Z

In this photo provided by the New York Philharmonic, six Broadway divas, spanning several generations of musical theater, flank David Hyde Pierce, center, to celebrate the upcoming 80th birthday of composer Stephen Sondheim, Monday March 15, 2010 at Berlin to Paris to London, but he has come east to take on a new challenge as the first foreign principal conductor in China.</p><p>Many international maestros have made...

Vienna Philharmonic pays birthday tribute to Maazel

2010-03-04T10:19:56Z

<div><p>American conductor Lorin Maazel celebrates his 80th birthday this weekend conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in the Austrian capital.</p><p>Topping the programme of Saturday's performance at the Musikverein concert hall will be the world premiere of a suite taken from Maazel's opera "1984", based on the novel of the same...

Chicago Symphony Muti

2010-02-25T16:31:42Z

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Music Director Designate Riccardo Muti, right, responds to a question with CSO Association President Deborah F. Rutter during a news conference where he was introduced Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010 in Chicago. Muti will begin his t...

Muti reveals lineup for 1st CSO season in new role

2010-02-25T16:30:20Z

<div id="subtitle">Riccardo Muti reveals Chicago Symphony Orchestra plans: outreach, 'Otello' and original works</div><div><p>Conductor Riccardo Muti won't take over as 10th music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra until Sept. 19, but he proved Thursday that he already can lead the city's critics and musical public into laug...

Lang Lang, Mahler, highlight UK Southbank season

2010-02-22T08:12:49Z

&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;LONDON (Reuters Life!) - London's Southbank Center, home to four orchestras, announced a new season on Friday featuring Chinese piano superstar Lang Lang, vast amounts of Mahler and so much music that recession seemed banish...

Philadelphia Orchestra Celebrates Academy Of Music's 153rd Anniversary

2010-01-30T22:31:32Z

PHILADELPHIA - JANUARY 30: Sting performs with the Philadelphia Orchestra during the orchestra's 153rd anniversary celebration at the Academy of Music January 30, 2010 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by William Thomas Cain/Seiji Ozawa said on Thursday he has been diagnosed with oesophageal cancer.</p><p>The conductor has cancelled his schedule for at least six months to undergo treatment.</p><p>Ozawa, the 74-year-old musical director at the Vienna State Opera, said he was dia...

CORRECTION Japan Ozawa

2010-01-07T04:16:48Z

FILE-In this Feb. 3, 2005, file photo, Viennese State Opera music director Seiji Ozawa is seen at the traditional Opera Ball in Vienna, Austria. Japan's maestro Seiji Ozawa says he has been diagnosed with esophageal cancer. The 74-year-old Ozawa said Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010, at a news conference he will cancel all his concerts from Janu...

Japan Ozawa

2010-01-07T01:48:40Z

FILE-In this Feb. 3, 2005, file photo, Viennese State Opera music director Seiji Ozawa is seen at the traditional Opera Ball in Vienna, Austria. Japan's maestro Seiji Ozawa says he has been diagnosed with esophageal cancer. The 74-year-old Ozawa said Thursday, Jan. 7, 2009, at a news conference he will cancel all his concerts from Janu...

Judging The Music

2009-12-28T02:45:19Z

In this photo taken on Monday, Sept. 21, 2009, the Los Angeles Lawyers Philharmonic founder-conductor Gary Greene conducts at the Wilshire United Methodist Church in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Lawyers Philharmonic is the only classical music aggregation in Chicago, Yo-Yo Ma, world renowned cellist and founder of the Silk road Project, a cross cultural awareness and exchange program, waves as he is introduced at the opening of the Art Institute of Chicago's 'Silk Road Chicago' exhibit. As of January, Ma will become creative consultan...

Jackson, Cohen to get Grammy lifetime nods

2010-02-23T17:26:54Z

<div><p>Pop icon Michael Jackson and Canadian singer Leonard Cohen will headline a group of talent receiving lifetime achievement awards at the Grammys in January, organizers announced Thursday.</p><p>The late King of Pop, a 13-time Grammy winner, and singer-songwri...

New Schoenberg score stolen in Hungary: report

2010-02-23T21:21:40Z

<div><p>Thieves on Thursday stole a laptop computer from Hungarian conductor Zoltan Kocsis containing his version of Arnold Schoenberg's unfinished opera "Moses und Aron", MTI news agency reported.</p><p>Kocsis said the thieves broke ...

NM symphony reaches agreement with musicians

2010-02-23T22:50:24Z

<div id="subtitle">Musicians from New Mexico Symphony Orchestra agree to management's term, concerts to resume</div><div><p>The New Mexico Symphony Orchestra's management and musicians have reached an agreement that will allow the concert season to resume.</p><p>Management and the musicians have been negotiating a new contract since...

French maestro Pretre to conduct Vienna's New Year's Concert

2010-02-23T22:54:57Z

<div><p>French maestro Georges Pretre is to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic's legendary New Year's Concert on January 1, the orchestra announced Monday.</p><p>It will be the second time that the 84-year-old conductor has been invited to take the podium of the world's best-known and most sought...

Philharmonic shows poise in weekend aural safari

2010-02-24T00:20:44Z

<div><p> B?la Bart—kÕs Concerto for Orchestra has become a familiar staple for orchestras since it premiered in Boston in 1944, but it received its first Las Vegas airing 65 years later, at UNLVÕs Artemus Ham Hall on Saturday night.</p><p>The Las Vegas Philharmonic presented a confident doubleheader of concertos by 20th-century composers, with the ...