It was Coalwood moving, talking, humming its eternal symphony of life, work, duty, and job. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Suppose that back before the advent of screens, you and I had been on a committee charged with addressing the terrible problem of discrimination against women in major symphony orchestras. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The day dims into evening, and evening fades into night, and an open window carries the symphony of laughter and cheerful voices into my room. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I overheard references to daunting GPAs, too, and to horseback riding championships and symphony orchestras. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He suggested that Joe think of a well-rowed race as a symphony, and himself as just one player in the orchestra. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Though I didn’t understand the symphony, there was something haunting about it that touched my heart. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they have heard many symphonies, they also would not be at all surprised if the first movement is in sonata form and the third movement is based on a dance. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The odd thing about the symphony as it blossomed in Haydn’s, Mozart’s and Beethoven’s time is that it doesn’t have any direct parallels in any other artistic field. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The Eroica deliberately sought to disrupt what an audience expected to hear in a symphony. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Sanjeev noted that the symphony, now in its third movement, had reached a crescendo, for it pulsed with the telltale clashing of cymbals. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Many longer works of music, such as symphony movements, have more than one melodic theme. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The burial ground greets the sun with a symphony. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, Adam would choose to dress up for the symphony and a 1960s sharkskin suit could’ve just been his cool take on formal, but I knew there was more to it than that. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bruckner’s third symphony of 1873 was dedicated to Wagner and in its first version contained melodic quotations from his idol’s operas. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This symphony grew slow like a big flower in her mind. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Each moving in its unique way, but keeping the same harmonious rhythm, a symphony of carefully ordered ticking. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It’s like she’s the conductor and every sound in the air is part of her symphony. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being at odds with the other arts was not the only aspect of the symphony that dislocated music from its time. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The symphony was performed repeatedly in Allied countries in the months that followed. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Mom says, “What are you going to wear? Don’t people dress up to go to the symphony?” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

NOTE: Although a large group of people who play classical music together is often called a symphony, the more accurate term for the group is orchestra. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A symphony, for example, is usually a piece of music written for a fairly large number of instruments. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Then she would have to go into the inside room and listen to it many times and try to join it into the parts of the symphony she remembered. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was like my father’s first symphony orchestra. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The West Virginia engineer she had met on day one played oboe in a local symphony. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Mahler’s symphonies were a new start all right: he is music’s gateway to the twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A huge haul of art treasure was taken back to Nazi Germany, but there was one cultural item that could never be stolen from Leningrad: Shostakovich’s seventh symphony. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Someone’s arm was coming out from under a bed, moving like they were conducting a symphony orchestra. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recognize the Mozart symphony playing in the background. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

If ever she heard the symphony again there would be other parts to add to what was already in her mind. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The idea behind Liszt’s symphonic poems was to reduce the traditional four-movement symphony as exemplified by Beethoven into one concentrated, shorter piece that would be a musical response to a non-musical artwork. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Some symphonies don't have silence between movements, and some don't use the sonata form in any of their movements. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The Siege of Leningrad did not end until January 1944, almost two years after the premiere of the symphony dedicated to it. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In fact, neither the well-worn anecdote about a disenchanted Beethoven ‘scratching out’ the title page of his symphony bearing a dedication to Napoleon, nor the composer’s musical radicalism are quite what they seem. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The reason was this: the whole symphony was in her mind. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I remembered I had wanted to listen to a Tchaikovsky symphony on Sunday night, the night of the ball game which I had been so certain we would win. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

This was the point of a symphony; it was like an essay, or a detailed, blow-by-blow experiment. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She tuned the radio to a station that played symphonies. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

By the second half of the twentieth century this was certainly not the case for premieres of new operas or symphonies. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It is also associated with a particular form, so knowing that a piece of music is called a symphony should lead you to expect certain things about it. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Stamitz, who was born 120 kilometres from Prague and baptised Jan Stamic, has probably the greatest claim to being the inventor of the symphony as we know it, though posterity has largely forgotten him nonetheless. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There are dozens of them lying in the sand around us, creating an eerie eight-bit symphony. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Before the symphony begins, one of the volunteers gives us a tour of the backstage area and talks about the history of the Oregon Symphony. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Cigarette and cocktail glasses held like batons flew in the air directing the symphony of chatter, shrieking, singing, and laughing. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His Prometheus was published in 1789 and The Tragedy of Faust: Part One in 1808, the year of Beethoven’s Pastoral symphony. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The symphony’s first audiences were unanimous in their loud approval of it, with extraordinarily emotional scenes at each performance. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A modern novelist could no more write characters and plots than a modern composer could a Mozart symphony. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Its first movement alone was roughly the length of a whole early Haydn symphony. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the shadow of this mighty Choral symphony was to loom majestically over the entire nineteenth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It mattered because Dvorak’s New World symphony has to be seen in the context of the period. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

From the Eroica symphony onwards, Beethoven self-consciously became a composer with a mission: he would change the world through his art. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

By the time he was thirteen, he had already composed lots of sonatas and symphonies. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

First it was Theodore Thomas, conductor of Chicago’s symphony, who saw the island as the ideal site, the only site, for a music hall worthy of the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

All around me, Coalwood was always busily playing its industrial symphony of rumbling coal cars, spouting locomotives, the tromping of the miners going to and from the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Meandering, non-narrative prose or poetry, like musical symphonies, would not find their literary equivalents until James Joyce’s Ulysses or T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, both published in 1922. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The tune has often been compared to the spiritual ‘Deep River’, while another of the symphony’s melodies has been likened to ‘Swing Low, Sweet Chariot’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

To them its assault on the senses was startlingly fresh, as if someone had uninvented the symphony orchestra and started again from scratch. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

At a concert in February 1814, for example, Beethoven presented the premiere of his eighth symphony alongside a performance of his seventh, which itself was only two months old. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Dvorak abandoned the Hiawatha project but claimed to have absorbed research he had conducted for it into his musical thinking for the symphony. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The symphony stayed inside her always and grew little by little. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the Fifth and Ninth symphonies, Beethoven used the trombone as a noisemaker. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The team effort—the perfectly synchronized flow of muscle, oars, boat, and water; the single, whole, unified, and beautiful symphony that a crew in motion becomes—is all that matters. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I hear her mumble, “I’ve never been to the symphony either.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

By its nature and its size Texas invites generalities, and the generalities usually end up as paradox—the “little oF country boy” at a symphony, the booted and blue-jeaned ranchman in Neiman-Marcus, buying Chinese jades. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is the reason for the constant appearance, in every movement of the symphony, of the melody that begins the first. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This monumental new piece announced to the next generation of composers that the symphony was now to have an epic dimension. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The announcer said they were going to play his third symphony. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“The librarian found me a book about playing in the symphony and another about Berklee!” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

When Papa and I came to Würzburg, I joined the choir for the children of the symphony musicians. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It would be nice if the rest of my life came together like some kind of a magical musical symphony. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Musicologists love to wax on about the ambitious first movement of the Eroica symphony, mainly because it is unusually long and complex, and provides fuel for seemingly endless analysis and scholarly scrutiny. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Her hair was a symphony of snarls and she wore what appeared to be a man’s oversize black shirt. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She would have a whole symphony orchestra and conduct all of her music herself. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Would survivors and relatives of the Lakota Sioux Indians butchered at the Wounded Knee Massacre, which took place just three years before the symphony’s first performance, have recognised its melodies as theirs? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The work that eventually emerged from all this anguish, his fifth symphony, premiered in November 1937, is now recognised as one of the classical masterpieces of the twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I knew the words and melodies of hundreds of songs—a symphony exploding inside my head with no one to hear it but me. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

But it was a powerful force for me, especially at fourteen, with my nerves bright and jangling, ready to launch into a symphony at the slightest provocation. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Dad admitted he was as green as any valley when it came to music, but he had a good ear and he liked symphonies. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The steps protested my weight with a symphony of shudders and creaks, but they held, and what I discovered upstairs—compared to the bombed-out ground floor, at least—was like a time capsule. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Public subsidy allowed formats that had become financially unviable - such as the nineteenth-century symphony orchestra - to prosper somewhat artificially in the twentieth century, justified by the preservation of heritage. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She’s a member of the Rotary Club and has been married twice—for many years to a lawyer, and now to a dentist who is on the symphony board. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He shelved his newly completed fourth symphony, sensing that its dark modernity might make matters worse, and for a while retreated to the relative safety of film scoring. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But symphonies were supposed to be explorations, journeys to find out what would happen if you took a clutch of short melodic ideas and elaborated on them. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The essence of that originality was to take what composers normally did in symphonies - long, abstract, streams of ‘pure’ instrumental music - and turn it into a sung drama on stage. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It took no little time to shed these disagreeable impressions, even once the brilliancies of the symphony were cast up around me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Beethoven, inspired by study of and admiration for Handel and Bach, merely had the idea of appending to a symphony something you might expect in an oratorio. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Within the “symphony of voices,” Kepler believed that the speed of each planet corresponds to certain notes in the Latinate musical scale popular in his day—do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Culture isn’t just symphony orchestras, movies about dead British royalty, and hard-bound books. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The problem was that Wagner felt that writing symphonies was no longer a worthwhile pursuit. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The recently appointed Kuhani will offer blessings from the temple, and musicians will fill the streets with their discordant symphony. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He’s muttering something I can’t hear and conducting a symphony with his hands as he walks away from me toward a counter that has a hot plate with a kettle on it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Tia Alicia took her to museums and the symphony and the ancient ceiba tree. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

My fist unfolded, and the acorns fell to the ground with a symphony of plinks. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

But with all my knowledge and scepticism, I have never been able to argue with a one-hundred-piece symphony orchestra, full colour, three dimensions, and I being in and part of those incredible parlours. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The occasional solo of the whip added to the symphony of brutality Adarlan had created for its greatest criminals, poorest citizens, and latest conquests. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Big, booming Beethoven symphonies blast from her CD player all day long. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It is like a symphony musician who stops playing a piece on a hanging note and he cannot rest until he finishes the note. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A Bach invention, a Brahms symphony, and a Beatles song are different forms in different genres, and at first they may sound as if they have nothing in common. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Even allowing for the traditional plea of composers to be immune from political events irrelevant to their art, Haydn’s symphonies sound as if they were written in a vacuum. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In more recent years, a reluctant consensus has emerged among musicians that Leningrad may not be Shostakovich’s best symphony, despite its iconic status. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Sitting with my feet on the soiled canvas I felt as though I had wandered into the percussion section of a symphony orchestra. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liyana played the violin for them and told them, through Poppy, she would be in a symphony in Europe someday. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

During the day sometimes, or when she had just waked up in the morning, a new part of the symphony would suddenly come to her. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The scale of Beethoven’s seventh symphony was to be overtaken in a dramatic way, however, by the ambition of his ninth and final symphony. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

There is no television to watch in the evenings, just an old stereo on which they sometimes play a symphony or jazz. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But maybe the last part of the symphony was the music she loved the best—glad and like the greatest people in the world running and springing up in a hard, free way. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And she could play the Beethoven symphony any time she wanted to. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

While at the heart of Beethoven’s symphony lies a vision of a better civilisation led by a benign deity, Berlioz, a life-long atheist, attempts to evoke the Apocalypse and Final Judgement in sound. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s the summer’s end symphony. People from all over come to it. It’s a quite a big deal. We, the youngster musicians, play as a sort of cute sideshow,” Simon explained. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gets to next Friday and says, “Wow, the symphony? Woman to Woman sure does plan some extravagant events.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The next morning I wake up to an obnoxious digitized symphony—the alarm on my phone, which, miraculously, held its charge overnight. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The other bonus of this approach, as far as he was concerned, was that it treated the symphony, not other operas, as a structural starting point. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But polyrhythm conceived from scratch by a composer, written down on the page, imposed on the Western symphony orchestra, player by player, was an utterly novel concept. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

How long, then, will it be before our musical culture will be shuddering towards extinction, needing some earnest lover of the old and the 'authentic’ to rescue our songs and symphonies from oblivion? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This dress is black, because black is the best thing for such occasions: a simple, sober black dress, like those of the women who play cellos in symphony orchestras. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

What I remembered was getting hooked up with a Trazon prescription and the suicidal symphony. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Frost drops her magazine and even the receptionist has stopped typing, her hands held above her keyboard like a conductor waiting to cue a symphony. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time a deep bass drops, the ground glows in a symphony of light. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s like an angry symphony of three different songs. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Other dogs stayed on their porches, happy to mark his appearance and departure with passive earsplitting symphonies. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scream and whisper of the world making a symphony of so good and so what. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The fact that there are now women playing for symphony orchestras is not a trivial change. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“A body can’t play a symphony next to a man, without compassionating with his woes.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It was a placid explosion of orange and red, a great chromatic symphony, a colour canvas of su­pernatural proportions, truly a splendid Pacific sunset, quite wasted on me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

This convenient comparison is given extra poignancy by Beethoven’s reference to the French despot in his momentous third symphony, these days known as the Eroica but originally dubbed the Bonaparte. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

As well as nine symphonies and much chamber music, he wrote over six hundred songs before his death in 1828. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A symphony of grinding, a chorus of popping, an aria of exploding, and finally, the sad clapping of hard metal cutting into soft trees. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

His seventh symphony received its premiere at a Wagner memorial concert in December 1884, its second movement, Adagio, being in the form of a funeral lament for Wagner. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

People speak with the help of lungs, throats, voice boxes, tongues, and lips, thanks to an intricate symphony of sound and breath and movement. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The weeping had an accidentally contrapuntal harmony, a symphony of grief in the blood-stained kitchen. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As is so often the case in music’s rich history, the most original, daring and influential works - Beethoven’s Eroica symphony, Richard Strauss’s Salome - are ones that creep up on the world, apparently out of nowhere. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And the black symphony in the doctor’s office? Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Before the advent of blind auditions, the percentage of women in major symphony orchestras in the United States was less than 5 percent. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

A full symphony orchestra was swelling out of the radio; their eldest sister Gwen was slicing onions and singing; their mother was bent broad-beamed and red-faced over an oven. The Dark is Rising 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The endless percussive symphony makes my brain want to slide out through my ears and run away—and I realize that must be how it happens! Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The university, the county, the symphony foundation, the business community are all involved in creating a new model. Can the symphony be saved? 2011-08-29T20:30:00Z

“What is the stone that goes to the next, and creates a certain symphony?” Nick Cave Digs Deep, With a Symphony in Glass 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z

But Dudamel held them back ever so slightly, as if to show that this symphony is telling us what can and should be, rather than what is. Dudamel and Beethoven — and Vin Scully — for the common man 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

Others have reported that "the sound of the sea was a symphony" and "the world was as if newly created … It brought an inner joy … to be part of the miracle of Creation". Albion Dreaming by Andy Roberts - review 2012-07-25T07:00:03Z

And that was before members of Shirley’s family publicly condemned the film, calling it “a symphony of lies.” A Pocket Guide to the Oscars’ Beefiest Controversies 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

Last week, in a column on the Boston Symphony, I quoted Thomson’s comments on the excessive perfectionism of the American symphony orchestra. Virgil Thomson’s Enduring Critique of Classical Music in America 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Often as not, and rightfully so, that means the Los Angeles Philharmonic, which has become not only the envy of the circumscribed symphony world but also an exemplary creative model for arts organizations everywhere. L.A. versus Berlin: Which is king of the classical world? 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

It was the Third with which Salonen began his conducting career, learning the symphony in a few days when approached as last-minute substitute in London for Philharmonia Orchestra performance in 1983. Gustavo Dudamel brings out the full force and awe of Mahler's Third Symphony 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

The solemn, shimmering haze of string chords and delicate chimes that opens the symphony reappears throughout the three movements. CD Review: Arvo P?rt?s Fourth Symphony 2010-10-08T15:47:00Z

This Sibelius symphony was once pilloried by the critic Virgil Thomson as being “vulgar, self-indulgent and provincial beyond all description.” Review: An Orchestra of Teenagers, but No Apologies Necessary 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

He nonetheless came to see the value of classical training; he later returned to the classics and eventually performed Bach and Mozart on several occasions with symphony orchestras. George Shearing, ?Lullaby of Birdland? Jazz Virtuoso, Dies at 91 2011-02-14T18:49:32Z

In 1949 he became organist of Chelmsford Cathedral and quickly made his mark by raising the standard of the cathedral choir and founding the Essex symphony orchestra, which later made him president. Stanley Vann obituary 2010-06-03T17:02:00Z

Such mood swings, prompted by an unpredictable leader, are what gives the symphony its lasting relevance. Salonen's 'Pollux' supplies some grunge for L.A. Phil tour 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z

But there is barely a hint of heartache in this jovial symphony, which the musicologist Charles Rosen has described as one of the last 19th-century works to convey “the civilized gaiety of the Classical period.” Music Review: Finding Beethoven?s Moods Hidden Between the Lines 2011-08-14T23:23:18Z

Mr. McGegan said that the area’s universities and San Francisco’s excellent symphony orchestra, opera and ballet companies create a fertile environment for early music, very similar to that of Boston. Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Joins Mostly Mozart 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

To call him “photogenic” is like calling Beethoven’s Ninth a pretty good symphony. Review: A feral, mischievous, ecstatic Bowie revealed in new Seattle MoPOP photo exhibit 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

For a 70-minute Austrian symphony first performed more than a century ago, Mahler’s Fifth makes a surprisingly strong case for itself as the song of the season. Mahler’s Having a Moment. He’s Got Lydia Tár to Thank for It. 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

Neither are symphony orchestras: it’s simply a question of whether society finds it worthwhile to pay for them. A Pop-Cultural Moment for Classical Music 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

The Philadelphians had planned to present a complete survey of the symphonies at Carnegie last season, as part of the celebrations of Beethoven’s 250th birthday. Review: Carnegie Hall Reopens With a Blaze From Philadelphia 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Mr Phillips was "the unanimous choice from an extremely talented field" One of the UK's oldest symphony orchestras has named a 20-year-old student as its youngest ever assistant conductor. Orchestra names young conductor 2012-06-28T12:53:07Z

The finale built slowly, and seemed to end as openly as the symphony had begun: the closing measure’s crescendo not a sweep so much as a shine with lingering radiance. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Conductor Is the Star 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

Again with Beethoven in mind and again writing for the Berlin Philharmonic, he made his Ninth a choral symphony — and a drama — telling a story of desperation and hope set during the Nazi epoch. Hans Werner Henze, Romantic Composer, Dies at 86 2012-10-29T02:30:06Z

The episodic opening movement, lasting 25 minutes, emerged here like a symphony unto itself, with ruminative stretches that kept building inexorably to bursts of searing turmoil. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Performs Mahler and Thomas Ad?s - Review 2012-01-07T00:40:59Z

He returned to the symphony in 1893, and completed it the following year. Mahler Was More a Romantic Than Scholars Thought 2013-07-26T16:47:28Z

They both belonged to a church choir and attended concerts by the local symphony orchestra. Scott Johnson, Playfully Inventive Composer, Is Dead at 70 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z

It was valuable to get a chance to hear this symphony live, but it does come off a bit repetitive and thin, however wearyingly loud and dense it gets. Review: A Shostakovich Symphony Finally Reaches the Philharmonic 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

Another issue the symphony needs to address if it's to recover its fiscal health, Woods said, is the small size of its endowment. Symphony likely to break even for season; cash challenges remain 2012-08-24T18:58:03Z

“It’s not as intense an experience as doing one of the symphonies,” says Foster, the violist. Perspective | The best way to understand a Beethoven concerto? From a musician’s point of view. 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

The problem for me is not that anything sounds particularly unlike Mahler but that much sounds too specifically Mahlerian, leading you into another symphony and down a blind alley. Review: Philadelphia Orchestra Plays Rachmaninoff and Work by a Mahler Proxy 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

Last fall, Chicago Symphony musicians walked out only to return 48 hours later when management offered them a 4.5 percent increase over three years, according to symphony news releases. Striking San Francisco Symphony cancels second show as talks resume 2013-03-15T19:38:48Z

The Haydn symphony — a work full of musical jokes — got a precise, vivid reading, with Hrusa indicating a progressive diminuendo by drooping like a wilting flower. Review: Expressive conductor plus exuberant soloist equals stirring evening 2011-05-06T17:10:05Z

I mean, they are, and when you build them into an absurd symphony of tooting, like Mel Brooks in Blazing Saddles, you have to be made of stone not to laugh. Laughing Gas: In Defense of the Fart Joke 2013-10-02T14:28:05Z

The concert began with Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Serenade to Music," with the youth symphony and about 35 of the children's chorus conducted by Luke McEndarfer, the group's artistic director. American Youth Symphony and National Children's Chorus members rise to 'Heaven Earth Mankind' 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

I had not known a single human voice could make a symphony orchestra sound small. Wagner: beauty in the eye of the beholder 2011-07-14T15:01:01Z

All those musical effects felt better integrated into a power that accumulated both within each movement and over the symphony’s full span. Review: The Berlin Philharmonic Gives a Master Class at Carnegie 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z

That and Berlioz's symphony are populist Bowl fare that does little to reveal the enormous range of Heras-Casado's repertoire. Conductor Pablo Heras-Casado turns on the charm at Hollywood Bowl 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

Rippling waves of sound punctuated the first movement of the symphony, rich with intriguing timbres. | Washington Square Ensemble: Washington Square Ensemble Make Waves at Merkin Hall 2010-04-08T22:43:00Z

Most recently, in Hamburg, Germany, a performance of Beethoven’s symphony was played at the request of Chancellor Angela Merkel as an inspirational evening out for the Group of 20 summit. Dudamel and Beethoven — and Vin Scully — for the common man 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

In “As Promised,” a single black outline turns in on itself and becomes much more complicated, curving through the center and rippling along the edges, resulting in a symphony of polyp shapes. Four Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

Being a member of a symphony orchestra requires a remarkable cooperation. Classical music can unite and console in troubling, angry times 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

If Robert Schumann had been a really fine orchestrator — or if he were not the bumbler in that regard that conventional wisdom holds him to be — would his symphonies be more popular today? Schumann, via Simon Rattle, Robin Ticciati and Nézet-Séguin 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

This work is the last movement in Lewis’s personal symphony of civil-rights memories. Rep. John Lewis’s new ‘March: Book Three’ rises to the historic occasion 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

The movie soundtracks are synchronized so that, heard together, they form a symphony, Mr. Berg, an electronic music composer, and Ms. Djurberg’s companion and collaborator, said in the interview. Female Artists Occupy Main Galleries at the New Museum 2012-06-03T03:26:52Z

Here I am trying to recreate the spirit of an 18th-century performance of a Mozart symphony, and I’m using an iPad.’ Jeffrey Kahane Conducts New York Philharmonic Using iPad 2011-11-23T23:13:25Z

The oblong Dining Room is a symphony in tones of beige and honey, from the irregular stone flooring to the plush upholstery and the tablecloths. A ‘Landmark’ Restaurant Returns: A Preview of the Four Seasons 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Eschenbach can be a fussy interpreter, and in the symphony he seemed to have a pronounced idea about every phrase and gesture. Music Review: John Oliver Leads the Boston Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-08T22:44:17Z

Shostakovich Symphony No 7, 'Leningrad' Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Petrenko Shostakovich wrote the seventh and longest of his 15 symphonies in the summer of 1941, following the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Shostakovich: Symphony No 7 'Leningrad' – review 2013-04-27T23:07:01Z

Can you believe that a composer and conductor of symphonies, operas and sonatas was once known as colloquially to Americans as RiRi is today? Leonard Bernstein Through a Daughter’s Eyes 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

The Eighth is an upbeat work — one of Dvorak’s shortest symphonies — full of energy, folk-inspired melodies and rousing brass enthusiasm. A bright program in which Dvorak wasn’t the feature 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

The prospect of hearing any symphony by Gustav Mahler performed without a conductor is rare. A spirited opening to the chamber music festival 2011-01-08T20:58:00Z

After its historic premiere in wartime conditions in 1942, the symphony rode a wave of patriotic fervor, but it was torn apart by many Western critics for its supposedly dumbed-down and overinflated rhetoric. Review | Philadelphia Orchestra triumphs in epic Seventh Symphony 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

With all due respect to the great symphony that usually fills the room, it takes a rock singer to level a raw, emotional gut punch like that. Eddie Vedder honors Mark Lanegan during second Seattle show 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

Schumann’s flawed but endlessly inspiriting symphonies, it seems, have never been more alive. Schumann, via Simon Rattle, Robin Ticciati and Nézet-Séguin 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

This year is the 25th anniversary of that auspicious release, a doleful 53-minute symphony that swept the Billboard charts, as well as the 40th anniversary of the work’s 1977 premiere. How a Somber Symphony Sold More Than a Million Records 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

If a hardy Bruckner symphony hardly seems holiday fare, think again. Bruckner as a holiday treat? The L.A. Phil thinks so 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

This might also be the motto of Mahler’s last-completed symphony, his Ninth, often construed to be a death-obsessed composer’s ultimate premonitions. Mahler lives! Dudamel gives his most impressive performance yet with L.A. Phil 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

When symphonies record for a label, they’re paid a flat fee; the label owns the master recordings in perpetuity. Seattle Symphony launches its own recording label 2014-03-19T07:03:49Z

There was similar Mozartian crispness and fine phrasing in the D major Haffner symphony that opened the concert. Norwegian CO 2010-08-26T11:00:00Z

A high point was “Passacaglia: The Secret of Wind and Birds,” billed as “an interactive symphony.” For One Night, China’s Great Hall of the People Reverberates With Music 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

And there are some pieces in the literature — in fact there’s a Sibelius symphony that ends mezzo forte, off the top of my head — but he was right.” Memories of Tanglewood on Its 75th Birthday 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Lauderdale works closely with three collaborators to come up with orchestral arrangements he hopes are fun for symphony players. Pink Martini arrives in Seattle with plenty of fizz 2010-04-15T20:30:00Z

The Mahler and Copland symphonies, the evenings’ longest pieces, took pride of place after intermission on their programs. Review: Gustavo Dudamel Comes to Town, Megawatt Appeal on Display 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

Ultimately Moss describes most of what she does as building long-term relationships with artists she feels display an out-of-the-generic-box "creative bent above and beyond doing the best Brahms symphony." Lincoln Center artistic director Jane Moss conducts surprising successes 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Here he’ll play Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1; the orchestra also performs two Schumann symphonies. Best bets for classical music in Seattle this fall 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

That Adagio, moving as it is, became something of a memorial to Wagner, who died in 1883, as Bruckner was nearing completion of the symphony. Music Review: Zubin Mehta, Israel Philharmonic, Collegiate Chorale at Salzburg 2012-07-27T21:23:47Z

The description of the “second symphony” matches the overture of the opera. The More We Learn About ‘Dido and Aeneas,’ the Less We Know 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

During his final 20 years, Bertoia developed an army of minimalist sculptures with long rods that waved like fields of grain, producing tidal washes of luminous overtones or pointillist symphonies. A Sibling Rivalry Divides a Famous Artist’s Legacy 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z

“Even in a gutted factory,” he says, “bolts and stains and tracks on the floor, overhead cranes” show the division of labor, of “thousands of people working in a coordinated symphony.” Meet the latest tourist attractions: Abandoned factories 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

In a way, it’s a risk for a Finnish conductor to make an important debut with Sibelius’s Second, the best-known Finnish symphony, completed in 1902. Review: John Storgards’s Debut With the New York Philharmonic 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

When he started writing his symphony, he thought it was going to be a divertimento of maybe 20 minutes. A Symphony With Powerful Champions, but Often Overlooked 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

Mozart in the Jungle about an eccentric conductor that shakes up an old-fashioned symphony world was also chosen through the pilot process. Amazon's Hysterical, Saucy 'Catastrophe' Marks An Inspired Win In The Binge Wars 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

In this supposedly patriotic 1937 symphony, there is always the unresolved question as to whether the composer, fearful of Stalin’s lethal criticisms, wrote something subversive or sycophantic. With his L.A. Phil program, here's what a man of mystery portends for New York 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

After all, at a time when people hunger for one-of-a-kind live events, what is the inherent attraction of hearing, say, an Italian conductor leading a French orchestra in a Tchaikovsky symphony? Review | Czech Philharmonic showcases musical birthright 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

Dudamel's performance did not downplay the obvious high points of the symphony that get an audience every time. The orchestral worlds of Los Angeles and Venezuela collide for Beethoven's Ninth at Disney Concert Hall 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

The Met Orchestra’s concert at Carnegie Hall on Sunday, which packed the place, opened and ended with James Levine conducting excellent performances of second symphonies: Beethoven’s to begin, Schumann’s to end. Review: Anna Netrebko Saves the Day for the Met Orchestra 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

Mr. Spivakov led a bristling account of this anxious symphony, dedicated to the victims of fascism. Music Review: A Breathless Boccherini, an Unnerving Shostakovich 2010-11-23T23:40:00Z

The symphony — Mendelssohn’s second for full orchestra, though conventionally numbered fifth — was written in 1830 to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Lutheran statement of theology, the Augsburg Confession. Music Review: American Classical Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall 2013-06-07T22:48:08Z

As orchestras and symphonies across the globe have been struggling to attract younger audiences to classical music, groups of classically trained musicians and conductors are taking their music to the people. Bringing Classical Music to the Club Scene 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

For reasons more to do with superstition than with logic, people regard a composer’s ninth symphony as a milestone. Music Review: Philip Glass 75th Birthday Concert at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-01T23:17:25Z

Just last year at Carnegie, Mr. Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic performed Schumann’s four symphonies in two programs. Berlin Philharmonic’s Beethoven Marathon at Carnegie Prompts Some Head-Scratching 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

If anything is worth a long, long answer, it’s Beethoven’s last completed symphony, which received its world premiere in Vienna in 1824. Two to tango: Beethoven and Astor Piazzolla share SSO bill 2012-12-27T21:21:56Z

That piece, “Become Ocean,” made its world premiere at the symphony last year and won the Pulitzer Prize for music last month. Seattle designer Michael Cepress adds panache to SSO ensembles 2014-05-05T02:00:05Z

For the Andante movement in the symphony and the Nocturne in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," the electricity was low; the colors, dimmer; the tension, lax. Sun shines on Hollywood Bowl guest conductor Ludovic Morlot 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

She conducts as if the symphony were made out of oversized instruments. An L.A. Phil reminder that but a mile, and fate, separate Disney Hall from skid row 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

Or perhaps, tweedling between the cricket scores and a complicated symphony on Radio 3, he accidentally rolled past a two-for-one ticket offer on the sort of station I listen to. Harry Potter and the Deadly Dullards 2011-07-23T23:06:50Z

Beethoven intended fairly lean orchestras to play all but the last of his symphonies; and in the fifth the key is in the consistency of the attack and momentum. Teresa Carre?o Youth Orchestra of Venezuela ? review 2010-10-13T08:12:00Z

A Mahler symphony is generally an event, and the Concertgebouw made it one Tuesday night. Royal Concertgebouw makes a mark with the overfamiliar in D.C. 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Haydn was a wit, and he put funny things in the symphony. When Dennis Prager conducts Santa Monica Symphony, there's no avoiding politics 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

Phil into the most prosperous symphony in the country, with the largest budget. L.A. Phil chief Deborah Borda to leave for New York 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

It requires the complicated, sweeping, unmatched symphony of life. What does a pandemic sound like? For many of us at home, it’s a heartbreaking silence. 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

He became the festival’s biggest individual donor and supported the local art museum, the symphony orchestra and hospitals. Donation for a Lucerne Opera House Is in Dispute 2011-04-28T21:05:39Z

Ives assumed that any audience in his day would recognize the hymns when hearing his symphony. Review: Trinity Wall Street and Julian Wachner Play Carnegie Hall 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

Because we're using players from the symphony, it seemed like the best repertory. Mark Morris and Seattle Symphony to collaborate at Paramount 2010-05-12T22:50:00Z

It’s just about perfect after the symphony or a show downtown. At the ART Lounge, just say ‘cheese’ | Happy Hour 2013-01-03T02:32:53Z

So their return will be poignant: just two nights, and the four symphonies of Brahms, a composer Barenboim performed as a pianist in this space in 1962. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

Getting back to that concert with the academic title, the subject of the Montreal program was not really the evolution of the symphony as a genre. Music Review: Evolution, and a Definitive Endpoint 2011-05-15T21:30:31Z

Many leading conductors have balanced work between opera houses and symphony orchestras, readily transferring techniques and styles between the two genres and repertories. Gustavo Dudamel Hasn’t Conducted Much Opera. That’s OK. 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z

The rise and fall of Franck’s symphony shows that the canon can change — that the canon can be changed. What Happened to One of Classical Music’s Most Popular Pieces? 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

But if there had only ever been one set of instruments that could play, say, Mozart symphonies, they might not be performed often. Reviving a Harry Partch Work With Hubcaps and Wine Bottles 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

The word also often appears as shorthand for “symphony orchestra” in names including Seattle Symphony. Seattle Symphony is up for 3 Grammys. Here’s a beginners guide to enjoying the Symphony. 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

They appear in various forms throughout the first movement of Shostakovich’s symphony: The Tortured History Behind Prokofiev’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

“Only music, only a Brahms symphony, comes close” to the sensation of those prelapsarian gallops, she writes. ‘As It Turns Out,’ a Sister’s Remembrance of Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z

When the symphony finally subsided into silence, no one in the hall moved a muscle for around two minutes. If Blair absorbs me, Mahler's chord ousts him every time 2010-09-02T20:30:00Z

There is still nothing quite as spiritually transcendental as just a pure live performance of a Mahler symphony or a Beethoven symphony. Netia Jones, Making Maurice Sendak’s Creatures Sing 2012-10-07T05:00:06Z

In essence, the 10-foot-wide painting is a symphony of seeing and being seen in the newly emerging modern world. The Kimbell captures 'Painter's Eye,' but it can't elevate Caillebotte 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

One of his early projects was an admired set of recordings of Beethoven’s symphonies with Bruno Walter, among the 20th century’s most distinguished conductors, who was then in the last years of his career. John McClure Dies at 84; Produced Classic Records 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

The series is presenting three Adams works, along with four major Bruckner symphonies. Music Review: An Unlikely Pair, Making Musical Sense 2011-07-14T23:06:24Z

Well, I would like to go to symphony orchestras in this country and see the orchestra look more like the demographics that they’re meant to serve. ArtsBeat: Jessye Norman Talks About ‘Stand Up Straight and Sing!’ 2014-05-06T16:27:37Z

Friday night's two symphonies, Beethoven's Fourth and Mahler's First, started in strikingly similar fashion: a sustained unity, with a melodic line stepping tentatively down. Berlin Philharmonic/Rattle 2010-09-05T16:05:00Z

The final four of the composer’s seven symphonies are such visionary, unconventional works that the familiar Second can seem bucolic and accessible by contrast. Review: John Storgards’s Debut With the New York Philharmonic 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Watson shapes his recordings into albums and performance pieces meant to be listened to like symphonies. London, as You’ve Never Heard It Before 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

What drives a composer to write music — especially for a group as complex as a symphony orchestra? The next ‘Become Ocean’? Seattle Symphony to unveil new commissions 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Breuker occasionally brought his idiosyncrasies into the classical realm, with pieces for brass ensembles, carillons and symphony orchestras. Willem Breuker, Dutch Composer and Bandleader, Dies at 65 2010-07-29T06:19:00Z

In the symphony, the tarantella material undergoes hallucinatory permutations, sometimes slowing to a crawl and sometimes accelerating in a panic. Revisiting a Symphonic AIDS Memorial 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

Barenboim came to Mahler eventually, but his feelings are complicated, and he has never recorded a complete Mahler set; in contrast, he has recorded the complete Bruckner symphonies three times, most recently with the Staatskapelle. Daniel Barenboim and the Music of Anton Bruckner 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

Berg’s “Seven Early Songs,” with the soprano Elina Garanca, and Elliott Carter’s “Three Illusions” are the filling in a symphonic sandwich; the bread is a pair of second symphonies, those of Beethoven and Schumann. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Feb. 6-12 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Subtitled “Tragic” by Mahler at his last performance of the symphony, it is prevailingly dark, and often gritty and abrasive. Review: In Mahler, Philadelphia Orchestra Finds Beauty Amid the Grit 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

This semi-sympathetic stance makes sense, since the film, a glorious and haunting symphony of color, emotion and sound, is very much its own Cause. Review: ‘The Master,’ From Paul Thomas Anderson 2012-09-13T15:23:48Z

Conventional wisdom has it that his concert pieces, including three symphonies, lack some of the spontaneity and brilliance of his stage work, as it strains too hard to make a point.  Perspective | Does Leonard Bernstein have any heirs? 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

He was buoyant, opening with one of Bach’s most overtly jubilant cantatas and ending with what the conductor described as the most joyous symphony ever written, Beethoven’s Seventh. Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra serves up a sandwich of sad and sweet 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

They asked me to suggest ideas and we decided that we wanted something different to the usual symphony concert format so as to attract an audience beyond the orchestra's core followers. How Dorset's 1000-year-old Viking bones inspired my new oratorio 2012-07-11T17:41:33Z

The Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky symphonies were studies in letting a score speak for itself. Review: The Rising Star of Conducting Arrives in New York 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z

“These characteristics poured into his other work, including the symphony.” What Happened to One of Classical Music’s Most Popular Pieces? 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

The National Symphony Orchestra’s “New Moves: symphony + dance” festival this month at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall presented the last of its three programs on Friday and Saturday under the conductor Thomas Wilkins. NSO’s ‘New Moves’ festival closes with Jessica Lang and Leila Josefowicz

But the creation of a bricks-and-mortar home base where the organization will present 90 percent of its concerts —near the city’s conservatory of music and symphony hall — seals that comparison. SFJazz Plans Its Own Building in San Francisco?s Hayes Valley 2010-05-06T19:47:00Z

In this teeming, vividly orchestrated symphony, Bernstein boldly draws from diverse styles, including episodes of wide-spaced, poignant harmonies evocative of Copland, and hurtling moments that screech with modernist intensity and break into 12-tone shards. Review: Son Confronts Father to End a Leonard Bernstein Festival 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

In addition to the Quay Brothers providing a new animation to go with Andriessen's music, the Phil will use an existing work by video artist Bill Viola, "Inverted Birth," to enhance Part's "Los Angeles" symphony. L.A. Phil lays out its 2015-16 season at Disney Hall 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

Though he was cheeky enough to dedicate his unfinished Ninth to God, his awesomest and most sweeping symphony was the Eighth. Finding the Awesome in Bruckner’s Eighth 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

At 20, urged by a mentor, he wrote a symphony but soon withdrew it and never completed another. The Case for Greatness in Classical Music 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

The dark heart of the symphony is the second movement, which evokes AIDS-related dementia. Revisiting a Symphonic AIDS Memorial 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

The symphonies are full of such anxious, often abrupt juxtapositions. Music Review: Christopher Houlihan at Church of the Ascension 2012-06-04T21:59:02Z

Mr. Currier, writing on a commission from the Minnesota Orchestra to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, produced “Re-Formation,” a sort of choral symphony for performance in Minneapolis in November. The Best Classical Music Performances of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

By Ross’s count, there are “about three dozen different versions of the symphonies in existence.” Finding the Awesome in Bruckner’s Eighth 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

Beginning with martial percussion and dissonance, the symphony’s baseline is horror. Review: A Conductor Unearths Rarities. Will People Listen? 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

In addition, he recorded Mozart’s and Haydn’s symphonies as well as Beethoven’s symphonies and piano concertos — all of which displayed a rousing, dancelike quality that brought Mr. Hogwood classical superstardom in the 1980s. Christopher Hogwood, conductor who gave new drive to classical warhorses, dies at 73

Unlike his later symphonies, which are so complex and searching, this one is almost feisty. Review: Bruckner, Then a Cultural Call to Arms, at Carnegie Hall 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z

The Louisville Symphony filed for bankruptcy reorganization last year and the symphonies of Honolulu and Syracuse went out of business in recent months. ArtsBeat: Musicians Pass Out Leaflets as Bankruptcy Looms for Philadelphia Orchestra 2011-04-15T13:58:35Z

The society's most famous commission is the composer's 9th symphony, and tribute will be paid to this extraordinary and revolutionary work on two occasions next summer. Royal Philharmonic Society announces bicentenary celebrations in UK and US 2012-11-07T18:22:46Z

The symphony does, after all, open with a somber clarinet solo. The next new Finnish star conductor takes the stand in Disney Hall 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

The first three, lasting almost 40 minutes and in effect a symphony in their own right, are purely orchestral. The Gothic Symphony: 'It's a Himalayan peak' 2011-07-13T20:30:01Z

This dissonant city symphony ends on a somber note, in a shot of a closed-down movie theater with a “For Rent” sign in the window. ‘Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn’ Review: No Sex, Please, We’re Romanian 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

Though he never quite answered the “worthy” question, Mr. Stucky explained that he wrote four symphonies before he was 30, but withdrew them. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Steven Stucky’s Symphony 2012-11-30T21:46:43Z

A composer and inventor, Machover is currently writing a symphony about the city of Toronto in collaboration with not just the city's orchestra, but also its 2.6 million residents. The orchestra as mass collaboration 2012-11-12T17:45:01Z

“The Wave Organ,” a sprawling waterfront sound-art installation created with materials from a demolished cemetery, has been quietly performing an oceanic symphony since 1986. Arts: ?Audium? and ?The Wave Organ?: The Sounds of Art 2010-03-28T02:41:00Z

The symphony, my introduction to her music, seemed to fly by. A bright program in which Dvorak wasn’t the feature 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

Last Wednesday, he conducted a demanding program, including symphonies by Bernstein and Schumann, with the Philadelphia Orchestra in its home hall. Review: Can a Busy Yannick Nézet-Séguin Do It All? 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

It was a symphony of stretchable, moisture-wicking fabrics and complicated looking footwear, items designed for maximum visual impact and, one imagines, some function, too. Where the Clothes Do Most of the Work 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

The show is like a chamber music version of the Met’s symphony — smaller, quieter, more accessible — but still displaying the full range of Mr. McQueen’s impressive talents. The “Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore!” Exhibition in London Highlights Alexander McQueen 2014-01-29T23:24:49Z

Price’s engagement with Black folk idioms in her symphonies and chamber music has also entered the spotlight as listeners have encountered these works for the first time. As Her Music Is Reconsidered, a Composer Turns 135. Again. 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

Berlin’s 178 museums, seven symphony orchestras and three opera houses are once again up and running. Berlin, Back in Full Swing 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

During a break from rehearsing his Hillsborough symphony at Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral, he discusses his composition while watching Germany play France in the World Cup on his laptop out of the corner of his eye. Michael Nyman on Hillsborough Symphony 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Masur’s experience in leading these symphonies was immediately apparent in the lucid interpretations he elicited here, deftly shaping melodic lines and highlighting orchestral colors. Music Review: Kurt Masur and New York Philharmonic 2012-11-17T00:22:56Z

At the heart of the symphony, structurally and emotionally, is the adagio, the wordless love scene, conceived for orchestra alone. Forgotten Berlioz: Rom?o et Juliette 2012-02-09T23:00:02Z

Every time you perform that symphony, you go back to the score; you probably discover some more. ‘A very not normal life’: Gianandrea Noseda, the NSO’s next music director 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

There was murkiness in the winds in the Overture of the Bach suite, and mushiness as the fragmented solos were passed around near the start of the Bruckner symphony. Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

Yesterday was spent getting my bearings and also watching 2001: A Space Odyssey with the Adelaide symphony orchestra. Adelaide festival 2013: week two 2013-03-14T08:39:42Z

Hrusa writes in the booklet note that he became obsessed with the symphony after hearing it while lying in bed. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

If cooking is an art form, then the mind-bending dishes that Jefferson Rueda coaxes from pig parts is a porcine symphony. 36 Hours in São Paulo 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

Robertson's brash, impatient approach just about got by in the tone poem, but fell well short of what's required in the symphony. BBCSO/Robertson ? review 2011-02-14T22:00:02Z

They were joined in the symphony by the women of London Symphony Chorus and the choir of Eltham College, who sang with fervent richness of tone. Berlin Philharmonic/Rattle ? review 2011-02-24T08:53:46Z

Led by symphony Music Director Daniel Alfred Wachs, the performance was mature and moving, as was Ives' "The Unanswered Question" that began the evening with wondrous grace. Mark Swed hits the road for a weekend of SoCal orchestra listening 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

And his account of the Mozart was nimble, sharply accented and lively, as the courtlier works among Mozart’s symphonies tend to be. Music Review: New York Philharmonic With Jeffrey Kahane - Review 2011-11-23T23:13:03Z

He says the collapse of the symphony would be a tragedy. Conductor Muti joins striking Chicago Symphony musicians 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

“The Scherzo reminds me of the first symphonies of Bruckner, with the same kind of covered angst; it’s fleeting, but it’s dark,” Nézet-Séguin said. Louise Farrenc, 19th-Century Composer, Surges Back Into Sound 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

Young had obviously reached a bad stage in his life, but the backing by the London symphony orchestra makes it luscious. Tracks of our tears: the songs that make G2 writers weep 2011-04-08T07:00:02Z

On the surface, there seems nothing unusual about a program opening with a Haydn symphony and Beethoven’s oft-played Piano Concerto No. 1. Music Review: The Orchestra of St. Luke?s at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-20T23:06:06Z

Brahms wrote the Third while on holiday in the Austrian countryside, and unlike his previous symphonies, it was warmly received. Music Review: Kurt Masur and New York Philharmonic 2012-11-17T00:22:56Z

“To see our Seattle Symphony here was a treasure,” Kelling said, as wait staff passed trays of Russian savories among guests at the private reception for symphony supporters. Seattle Symphony and ‘Ocean’ play to adoring crowd at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-08T00:33:04Z

Mr. Scott will perform the other five symphonies on consecutive Saturdays. 2010-01-11T07:05:00Z

With the 150th anniversary of his birth this year and the centenary of his death next year, Gustav Mahler's symphonies and song cycles are ubiquitous this season. This week's new live music 2010-12-04T00:07:00Z

The symphony got the best deal when the center’s two theaters were planned. Critic?s Notebook: Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, Mo. 2011-11-20T19:25:33Z

The fact that O'Brien has managed to milk 17 years out of talking to people on television is a miracle on par with Beethoven writing symphonies while deaf. 2010-01-14T20:15:00Z

When the fractals are programmed into the computerized light system, the result is a dense symphony of geometric detail, giving the illusion of three dimensions. 3-D Comes to Met Opera, but Without Those Undignified Glasses 2011-02-16T00:00:12Z

The change is also hitting symphony orchestras, many of which were founded on the subscription model. Opera Has a Problem: Fans Aren’t Subscribing 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

But the program didn’t show off the harsh power of the Vaughan Williams symphony. Music Review: Program by the Book: Orchestral Colors? Check. Solo Showcase? Check. 2011-03-27T23:30:19Z

When “Preludes” begins, in Moscow in 1900, memories of the hostile reception to his first symphony in 1897, performed disastrously under the baton of a drunken conductor, still grip him in a stranglehold. Review: ‘Preludes’ Shows Rachmaninoff Failed by His Muse and Killing Time 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

They became works to project to an audience: a “determined musical shouting” that acquired the “heroic discourse of the symphony,” as Kerman puts it. 17 Works, 9 Hours, 10 Days: My Beethoven Quartet Marathon 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

Joined by members of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Kahane had but a third of those forces for what was the first time the orchestra performed the symphony on its own. Beethoven, politics and a Ninth Symphony for all 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

But the symphonies also continue the line of Beethoven and Mahler. Recognition for a Composer Who Captured a Century’s Horrors 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

"Now our symphony is the only song to sing." Songs featuring camera tricks and comeback chicks 2010-05-05T11:15:00Z

The first three shows will feature small ensembles of symphony players at a downtown Denver gallery. Colorado Symphony links up with pot industry 2014-04-30T13:28:15Z

Fry may have attacked Beethoven’s influence, but certain symphonies of his were unimaginable without the finale of Beethoven’s Ninth. Review: Douglas W. Shadle’s ‘Orchestrating the Nation’ 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

This misguided, mishandled decision is a blot on the reputation of the youth symphony and its justly praised First Music competition, which has awarded commissions to 139 young composers since it began in 1984. An Argument for Hearing a Work With a Nazi Reference 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

Varga spurred the symphony to a rousing start with George Enescu's sonorous miniature, "Romanian Rhapsody" in D major. Review: Varga, in elegant form, leads SSO in inspiring program 2010-04-16T18:02:00Z

His symphonies took years to write, and the Third, left incomplete at his death, was finished by Alexander Glazunov. Borodin: Symphonies ? review 2011-08-11T19:30:00Z

This overture only burnishes the epic visual symphony on which it rests. Best graphic novels of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Written within the space of only 10 years, each symphony employs Martinů's thoroughly characteristic musical language to convey very different moods and emotions, from the epic first to the experimental, fantastic sixth. Martin?: The Six Symphonies ? review 2011-07-23T23:05:51Z

No doubt the jurors also rewarded his muscular sound, which seems powerful enough to cut through a symphony orchestra. Music Review: Benjamin Beilman at Merkin Concert Hall 2013-05-10T20:38:46Z

As she gnaws, shakes and claws at her victim, her noisy snorting and snuffling is a primitive forest symphony. Review: There's Lots of Suffering in The Revenant, But Bear With It 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

Judging from Thursday evening’s performance of the Britten and Sibelius “sea” works, and the Sibelius symphony, the SSO should be poised to make an excellent impression on California audiences. Seattle Symphony vividly evokes the sea in works by Sibelius, Britten 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

Knussen conducted his own first symphony at the Proms at the age of 15. My hero Oliver Knussen by Adam Foulds 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z

It was a symphony of live fire cooking. At Saison, the hearth’s fire and smoke set the beat for the kitchen 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

The music site Pitchfork proclaimed the album “a godlike symphony to teenhood.” At Home With Donnie and Joe Emerson: Touring the Farm Where the Emerson Brothers Recorded Their 1979 Album 2012-09-12T22:45:21Z

Evenings are alive and teeming; alight with swarms of stinging insects and cicadas screaming over the subtle symphonies of cricket song. Don’t write off Mississippi: Before you dismiss us as “a garbage state,” listen to the queer Southerners you’re leaving behind 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

Season two of the cycle began last month with Beethoven’s First and Eighth Symphonies framing a freshly commissioned work — a symphony in all but name — by London-based composer Gabriel Prokofiev. A pair of striking debuts at Seattle Symphony 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

Nicknamed the St. Petersburg of the East, Harbin was home to a thriving Jewish community that helped build a rich cultural scene, including China’s first symphony orchestra, made up of mostly Russian musicians. In China, Rejuvenating a Classical Music Heritage Linked to a Jewish Community 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

The symphony is the last and one of the least played of the Strauss tone poems. Into the Music: Strauss?s ?Alpine Symphony? Played Twice in One Night 2012-04-13T22:20:54Z

The symphony and the opera are separate and independent of each other, but musicians from the symphony perform as the pit orchestra for the opera. Top conductors departing San Diego Opera and San Diego Symphony 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

In place of reckless provocation and reaction, the New York Philharmonic made a daring, hopeful tour to Pyongyang and brought the symphony with it. Dvorak's 'New World' and a new piano concerto for our times at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

In the meantime, ECM New Series is to release Kremerata recordings of all four Weinberg chamber symphonies, along with an orchestration of the Piano Quintet. Gidon Kremer: A Violinist on a Mission, or Several of Them 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

Watching these players sweat their way through these symphonies, using every muscle to make them dramas of sight as well as sound, you could believe it. Review: A Beethoven Cycle From Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

We have to hope that the Bruckner symphonies he has performed since, and others, will soon follow on record. The 25 Best Classical Music Recordings of 2017 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

I felt as though I was holding in my hands the literary equivalent of all the works of Michelangelo, all the symphonies of Mahler, all the paintings of Cézanne, all the films of Fellini. Reading group: Bogged down on Swann's Way? 2013-02-07T14:01:15Z

No one would dream of performing a Schubert symphony today without using, or at least consulting, the original text. Rodgers and Hammerstein: the Mozarts of the 20th century 2010-08-11T20:45:00Z

"Scheherazade.2" is very much a concerto, but Adams also calls it a dramatic symphony in the manner of Berlioz's dramatically structured symphonic works. Violinist Leila Josefowicz is a powerful storyteller in John Adams' 'Scheherazade.2' 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

The concerto was jointly commissioned by the symphony orchestras of Toronto, Seattle, Dallas, and Melbourne; its world premiere was given earlier this month in Toronto. Review: New concerto was written for powerhouse violinist — and he delivered 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

The symphony says Gregory was instrumental in establishing Utah as a performing arts center. Former Utah Symphony leader, 90, is dead 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

The intricate manipulations Beethoven gives his themes in the symphony’s finale are nothing compared to the gnarly gyrations of the piano variations, which Mr. Denk, 48, dispatched with a winning combination of pluck and intensity. Five Days, Three Pianists, Three Generations 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

The symphony is a musical quilt in memory of friends he had lost to the disease. Music Review: Los Angeles Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-03-18T20:43:32Z

Of the mighty symphonies, for example, only a few new interpretations made much of a mark. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

This symphony, especially the first movement, comes across at times as a self-conscious “major statement.” Music Review: Baltimore and Albany Symphonies at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-08T21:11:30Z

If our attention flags during a Beethoven symphony, we are not failing the task of listening. Music Review: ?Launching the Percussion Revolution? at Juilliard 2012-02-01T00:03:35Z

Ms. Coates composed 17 symphonies, along with numerous works for small ensembles and voice. Gloria Coates, Composer Who Defied Conventions, Dies at 89 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z

It wasn’t until shortly after Beethoven’s death that his symphonies were really scrupulously prepared for performance. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

The performances of the seven symphonies stood out for their revelatory freshness, clarity and modernity — with still a hint of hands-off wariness. Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia play larger than life on Southern California tour 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

His poised, earthy Rameau is almost as audacious, if only because this repertoire has for far too long been seen as the province of period ensembles, and taboo for symphony orchestras. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2016 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

The third of the spirituals, Going Home, was written to Dvořák's famous largo theme, and led directly into the symphony proper. LPO/Alsop – review 2013-02-21T17:43:15Z

And if there are no exact quotations from the symphonies, Mr. Widmann’s overture is run through with Beethovenian riffs, flourishes and humor. Music Review: Beethoven?s Varied Descendants 2011-01-14T23:03:20Z

Chorale performances in the 2010-11 season include Handel's Messiah, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, "Choral," and Mahler's "Resurrection" symphony. Seattle Symphony Chorale sets auditions 2010-08-20T20:05:00Z

"Composers of the 20th century don't necessarily write symphony pieces," Tai explained when I interviewed her and Jolley at Cornish earlier this month. Seattle Modern Orchestra gives you a warm welcome to contemporary classical music 2011-01-25T00:19:17Z

“My hope has always been that fans of films who never go to a symphony hall will see why it’s so fun.” What It Was Like to Compose the Rogue One Score in Four Weeks 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

But he’s also a bungler who apologizes constantly for such antics as disrupting a symphony orchestra’s performance or letting a youngster watch “Saw.” ‘Parental Guidance’ a waste of Billy Crystal’s and Bette Midler’s talents 2012-12-24T16:49:41Z

His dogged quest to unearth the deepest intricacies in the symphonies of Beethoven, Bruckner, Mahler and Shostakovich reaps thrilling, often surprising performances. L.A. meets the future conductor of the New York Philharmonic 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

This symphony is going with the NSO on their brief tour to Russia in March, continuing the theme of the evening: long journey, fitting tribute.  NSO delivers a monumental and sobering salute to its former music director 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

With the added reminder that the best-known symphony of them all is, as the label might say, made in Germany. At G-20, Beethoven Sends a Mixed Message to Trump 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

He penned a wide range of work, from somber symphonies to popular television and film scores, including for “Serpico” and “Zorba the Greek” Body of Greek composer Theodorakis to lie in state 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z

The large symphony orchestra, supplemented with unusual instruments like glass harmonium, viola da gamba and bongos, becomes a vast palette on which Mr. Benjamin mixes up ever-new timbres. Critic’s Notebook: George Benjamin’s ‘Written on Skin’ Caps Tanglewood Festival 2013-08-13T21:39:43Z

It began with an overture, Dvorák's Carnival, and ended with a symphony, Tchaikovsky's Fifth, both excitable, heart-on-sleeve performances, and a violin concerto was sandwiched in between. BBCSO/Bringuier ? review 2012-02-13T17:51:34Z

The symphony begins with a terrifying trumpet solo. Twigs break, cans bang and L.A. Philharmonic soars with Mahler 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

It is a vast symphony, opening with a heroic flourish. Schubert's surprising relevance: Dudamel mines the promise of youth in trying times 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

It made you, as performances of his symphonies often do, want to hear them all the time. Review: The Philharmonic Tries Out Another Temporary Home 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

Of course, the issues facing America’s full-time symphony orchestras are more complex than what this four-week summer festival has had to cope with. Mostly Mozart, Mostly Improved 2013-07-26T20:05:06Z

Mr. Nagano’s unusual program for this festival, tracing the evolution of the symphony, is fascinating on its own terms. A Bracing Breath of Spring Air From All Directions 2011-04-29T16:17:11Z

The multicultural future is now in this watershed show that extends the music of this never-to-be-completed American symphony, bending the notes toward the sound of justice. 'Hamilton' brings its tale of American idealism to L.A. at a moment when it's needed 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

The 110-year-old symphony canceled its concerts and filed for bankruptcy late last year, citing a large drop in donations. Judge OKs Honolulu Symphony's request to liquidate 2010-12-14T02:16:05Z

This is a symphony of solos, at times almost a concerto for the L.A. Salonen leads Yuja Wang, L.A. Phil through Russian turmoil 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

There won’t be any more books in the Lord of the Rings saga, any more symphonies by Beethoven, or even any more One Direction albums. Friends reunion: let it go, it's never going to happen 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Folks would be astounded to learn of the editing and splicing that takes place in recorded symphonies and concertos. Picasso in 1932: Ingenious, Exhausting, Relentless 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

But the movie keeps going, building a symphony of tragedy and hope that celebrates Lincoln’s great triumph while acknowledging the terror, disappointment and other complications to come. Movie Review: ‘Lincoln,’ by Steven Spielberg, Stars Daniel Day-Lewis 2012-11-08T13:00:00Z

The symphony was a protest against the possibility of dying in the middle of life, with so much left unfinished. CBSO/Nelsons - review 2011-02-03T16:47:54Z

The piece is one of several eclectic works that will appear in this festival, which also brings symphony concerts, dance and public outdoor spectacles to this otherwise-sleepy seaside town on the country’s west coast. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

The result of this steady output is evident in more than 30,000 manuscript pages of music: 27 operas, 11 symphonies, 8 string quartets, 20 piano études and 50-odd films, among many other works. Perspective | If you think you know who Philip Glass is, you probably don’t. 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

But the story has a winning momentum, to go with its pleasing evocations of the symphony of running. Running for Their Lives in Two Middle-Grade Novels About Track Teams 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

During an interview at the Guggenheim Museum, Mr. Ratmansky called the commission the riskiest project he ever planned, asking, “How would you sell three symphonies of Shostakovich at the Met?” The Week Ahead: Oct. 14 — 20 2012-10-14T07:20:04Z

After learning of the Grammy nomination, he couldn’t find the words to tell his parents, and stared in shock at his roommate, who plays oboe in the youth symphony, Choi said. These Young Musicians Made an Album. Now It’s Nominated for a Grammy. 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z

Each of these two releases offers one symphony and one concerto, and one includes “Métaboles,” probably his most performed work. CD reviews: Tetzlaff takes on Czech masters; Seattle’s Dutilleux 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

But wasn’t that Mr. McEnroe at his impossible best: black eyes and symphonies? Review: ‘John McEnroe’ Captures a Perfectly Imperfect Tennis Star 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z

The bodies driven away, the stage finally emptied, the symphony’s stirring, stentorian choral finale was a promise of rebirth directed at a field of upturned dirt. At the Opera, Humans Bear Witness to Atrocity, or Ignore It 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z

On impulse, I stopped and cut the motor; only the symphony of birdsong filled my ears. Sahara-Level Sand Dunes, Mediterranean-Blue Water: Welcome to Michigan 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

With no deal reached, management canceled a Saturday night performance of Mahler's Ninth Symphony, said symphony spokesman Oliver Theil. Third concert canceled as San Francisco Symphony strike continues 2013-03-16T20:08:38Z

"What seems or sounds like chaos is actually the symphony of Mother Nature," he intones. HBO's "Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” knows how to put on a show 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z

He penned a wide range of work, from somber symphonies to popular TV and film scores, including for “Serpico” and “Zorba the Greek.” Thousands gather for Crete burial of composer Theodorakis 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

When considering Schubert’s final symphony and the Cleveland Orchestra, start with George Szell. The Cleveland Orchestra, America’s Finest, Restarts Recording 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

He's eager to introduce music lovers to symphony players in an informal manner: "We don't always wear our dress coats and tails." Meet Seattle Symphony's new concertmaster 2012-06-18T05:15:12Z

Say the phrase “classical music” and many will imagine a renowned symphony orchestra playing masterpieces of the distant past at Carnegie Hall. Nine Concerts in Seven Days at the World’s Most Famous Concert Hall 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

My friend, a violist, left the concert wondering aloud what would happen if a symphony were downsized to fit the group. Review: American String Project mixes things up this year, resulting in memorable moments 2010-05-21T19:16:00Z

Dvorák's seventh symphony, however, represented an entire change of mood, although Belohlávek's urgent approach underlined the work's ambition and drama as well as its characteristically more genial and vigorous qualities. BBCSO/B?lohl?vek ? review 2010-10-04T21:00:00Z

For fans of obscure operas — and lesser-heard symphonies and chamber pieces — the Bard Music Festival is one of the best reasons to stick close to New York in late summer. 7 Things to Do on Labor Day Weekend 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

My grandmother’s dinner table was never empty, and she coordinated the menu details with her children in perfect symphony, like a seasoned conductor. A Chicken Dish That Makes It Feel Like Christmas 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

“Is it inflating the symphony of the lovable Belgian,” Gilman wondered in the New York Herald Tribune, “to rank it above the dolorous swan song of Tchaikovsky?” What Happened to One of Classical Music’s Most Popular Pieces? 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

Instead of the typical gala evening of Mozart favorites, the festival orchestra was joined by the wonderful Young People’s Chorus of New York City for a thoughtful program of symphony and song. Review: A Youthful Experiment Kicks Off Mostly Mozart 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

It was under this umbrella that Boulogne conducted the premiere of Haydn’s six Paris symphonies, among many other important commissions. His Name Is Joseph Boulogne, Not ‘Black Mozart’ 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z

The film becomes a poem of metal and concrete, a symphony composed in glass and rebar, light and air and brought alive by an antic, crazy inspiration. Review: ‘The Walk,’ High-Wire Bravado at World Trade Center 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z

The opera is structured like a classical symphony, with a sonata-form opening movement, a scherzo, an adagio and a passacaglia finale.  Music Review: New York Philharmonic, Led by Christoph von Dohnanyi 2012-03-23T22:47:08Z

He said many of his 7,000 members are taking a hard look at their careers and may not return to Broadway orchestra pits or symphony spaces. Plush toys, jewelry, dance lessons — Broadway’s side hustles 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z

He adopted a similar approach to Prokofiev's last symphony, No 7 in C sharp minor, Op 131, a work often dismissed for its relative simplicity and lyricism. BSO/Karabits – review 2012-11-30T17:56:34Z

Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto made a hefty prelude to the symphony. CBSO/Andris Nelsons ? review 2011-01-13T22:46:01Z

He did, though, manage to lend both symphonies a legible, compelling shape, if at a bit of a remove. Review: The Rising Star of Conducting Arrives in New York 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z

The rest of the printed program was devoted to Brahms: the Third Symphony and the Variations on a Theme by Haydn, presumably intended as a link from the Haydn symphony to the Brahms. Music Review: Andris Nelsons Conducts Vienna Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall 2014-03-14T22:10:53Z

On a late-spring day in 2018, when the New York Philharmonic was deep in rehearsals of a Strauss symphony, an unexpected visitor showed up at the stage door of David Geffen Hall, the Philharmonic’s home. Conducting Lessons: How Bradley Cooper Became Leonard Bernstein 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z

Tito Muñoz, the new music director of the Phoenix Symphony, noted that most news coverage of the event barely mentioned the symphony or the new composers whose premieres it was presenting. Debating the Seattle Orchestra’s Foray With Sir Mix-A-Lot 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

No, it’s the mother of all symphonies! — longer, at close to 80 minutes, than Beethoven’s Ninth, and with 10 movements to boot, instead of a measly four. Seattle Symphony brings Messiaen’s ‘Turangalîla’ to Benaroya 2013-01-26T05:57:23Z

The symphony’s plans, which its lawyers are still weighing, are on a considerably smaller scale. Proposing Selections for Colorado’s Cannabis Concerts 2014-05-09T21:43:05Z

The program, which will be repeated Feb. 8, will feature Strauss’s “Don Juan” and Beethoven’s “Eroica” symphony. ArtsBeat: Minnesota Orchestra Announces First Concert After Lockout 2014-01-17T21:07:02Z

And orchestras are turning to the three turbulent symphonies Farrenc wrote in the 1840s, which achieved significant success despite the Parisian public’s hostility to orchestral scores. Louise Farrenc, 19th-Century Composer, Surges Back Into Sound 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

Last night’s episode of “Game of Thrones,” “The Broken Man,” began in a startling way: a cold open, “S.N.L.” style, rather than the usual symphony of maps and fire. “Game of Thrones”: Start Choppin’ 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

City Ballet’s repertory abounds in Russian music that is rarely played in the symphony hall. Setting the Tempo With One Eye on the Stage 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

Where that Swedish artist offers a bright, dynamic symphony, Ms. Quaytman responds with a spare, restrained and slightly dissonant tone poem. 10 Under-the-Radar Art Shows to See Now 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

Or, being a little more specific, a favorite aria in an opera, or movement in a symphony, or song in a song cycle. ArtsBeat: Musical Moments: What Moves Us? 2012-11-16T16:00:23Z

From the start, he programmed Bruckner in subscription concerts, and, by the end of July, he will have led the ensemble in 17 performances of Bruckner symphonies in four countries in just under a year. Bruckner's Second Act 2011-07-16T14:05:00Z

As a spiritual journey through grief and redemption, Mahler's second symphony is often played for commemorative events. Hearts and Renewal: Classical Concert Picks for 9/11 2011-09-09T21:00:00Z

Dudley might have scored dozens of films, written for symphony orchestras, worked with acts from Robbie Williams to Tom Jones, but this has proved one of her most challenging projects. The Doctor's Tale: Barking up the right tree 2011-03-31T20:45:01Z

With a symphony, it’s much more collaborative with other percussionists.” Percussionist Paul Hansen keeps the beat all over Seattle 2013-08-01T21:37:03Z

Eight of his 10 surviving symphonies were written in England and explain why, just before he died in 1991, he was awarded a British knighthood. Celebrating Panufnik, a Polish Composer in London 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

The symphony sometimes lurched from one exhilarating moment to the next. After five years of Gustavo Dudamel, what's next? 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

The impasse came to an end on Thursday with the announcement that the symphony had decided to file for bankruptcy and dissolve. San Antonio Symphony to Dissolve Amid Labor Dispute 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Day-Lewis composes a symphony of moods: sardonic, melancholy, inspired, impatient. Review: Daniel Day-Lewis Sews Up Another Great Performance in ‘Phantom Thread’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z

When we hear a Brahms symphony or a Beethoven piano sonata, we carry around with us our previous hearings. Review: Four Days of Luigi Nono in ‘Utopian Listening’ 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Jacobs is exploring the late Mozart symphonies, in which his performances are sometimes surprising in their refusal to conform to the more straightforward style of either the Vienna Philharmonic or the British early-music practitioners. Ren? Jacobs?s Harmonia Mundi CDs and DVDs 2011-11-20T02:15:30Z

In a place both lush and austere, alien and homey, full of symphonies of languages and accents, smells and sounds, silence and raucous music, nothing can touch the experience of being there like poetry. Read Your Way Through the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

This isn’t “Blazing Saddles”; audible flatulence is restricted to a single plaintive note, rather than a full symphony. ‘Flux Gourmet’ Review: Mastering the Art of Fringe Cooking 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

But he sees the individual clubgoer just as much a part of a collective experience as anyone at the symphony hall. How to act in public spaces in a digital age 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

Take just the introduction to the E flat symphony, No. 39, from 1960. Bruno Walter, a Conductor Who Found Truth Through Beauty 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

It would inspire a symphony and a ballet and win the Pulitzer prize. On an alien shore 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z

A paper trail of his many movements exists almost by accident, with most of his symphonies including the precise locations of their composition: Pontefract, Leeds, Sunderland, Richmond. William Herschel Is Famous for Science. What About His Music? 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z

For generations after Schumann’s death, his symphonies were considered flawed by thick, poor orchestration, so much so that some conductors fixed, as they saw it, the problems. Simon Rattle Conducts Schumann With Berlin Philharmonic 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

But the plain truth about the Rattle concert is this: it's a great Mahler symphony played by what is often the best orchestra in the world – and I can't wait to get over to Kensington. If Blair absorbs me, Mahler's chord ousts him every time 2010-09-02T20:30:00Z

On cooler days, he wrote, “the veiling tenderness of the mists play an ever-changing symphony of color.” Shedding Light on a Landscape Painter’s Lost Years in New York 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

If I read Lockington’s intention correctly, he looked at the symphony from above rather than attempt a priestly spiritual depiction of a composer’s inner workings of Beethoven. A spiritually yearning Beethoven Ninth in Pasadena 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z

As this symphony of echoes reaches its conclusion, readers may hear the grisly battle from “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.” Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer are back — and all growed up 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

Only a couple of her early symphonies from 1970s have had performances in the U.S. Gloria Coates' great oddity on display at REDCAT 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

The opening film, “Kinshasa Symphony,” is the story of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s only symphony orchestra. The Week Ahead: April 3 ? 9 2011-04-02T03:12:49Z

Among the striking things about the vast body of work gathered here is how it interrelates rather like symphonies and string quartets are often intertwined in a composer’s oeuvre. Frank Gehry’s variations on a theme 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

The symphony itself, in fact, was the appeal and the drawback of the evening. NSO offers “Lobgesang,” but highlight is organist Paul Jacobs playing Bach

“It was the first time I had ever played youth symphonies, really, and it was a really important moment in my education,” Montgomery said. These Young Musicians Made an Album. Now It’s Nominated for a Grammy. 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z

A work of iridescent beauty, the symphony for strings, percussion and harp eases us out of our daily metropolitan grind and summons our radiant guardian angels. A symphony for Los Angeles, just one otherworldly delight at L.A. Phil's Mozart and Pärt festival 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

And earlier this year, the symphony announced Lina Gonzalez-Granados as Conducting Fellow — part of its training and mentoring program to shape future music directors. Why are there so few women at the top in classical music? What’s being done about it in Seattle and elsewhere? 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

The symphony will be repeated Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. Eschenbach and the NSO go almost modernist with Mahler 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Throughout most of the symphony’s beginning half, the conductor, Alan Gilbert, and the Philharmonic kept their poise. Finding the Awesome in Bruckner’s Eighth 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

Is this a symphony with a narrative program, per se? Review: Absent 20 Years, a Conductor Rescues the Philharmonic 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

This daring symphony was longer, louder, more dissonant and contained more extremes of sound and of mood than any symphony to date. Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra with Gustavo Dudamel - 23 June 2012-06-22T08:52:00Z

If this sound, also observed recently in a program of Mozart symphonies, were married to more intense interpretations, it could have a galvanizing, swordlike effect. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Richard Strauss 2013-12-13T22:39:30Z

Blended scotches are simply out of fashion, which denies the art and craft of the blenders who strive to create a symphony out of the blended notes of the single malts. Does Blended Scotch Still Have a Place in the Modern Bar? 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

For the Austrian composer, the rustic ring of the cowbell took on profound significance in his symphonies, representing cosmic solitude in the face of eternity. Reducing Mahler’s Sixth Symphony to a piano recital 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

The ensemble sounded galvanized in the stirring, deliriously grand Saint-Saëns symphony. Music Review: Saying Farewell to School, With Some Help From Brahms 2011-05-20T21:22:12Z

Barenboim's way with Beethoven's seventh and eighth symphonies felt surprisingly old fashioned, too. Prom 13: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra/Barenboim – review 2012-07-25T17:12:13Z

It is the shortest and least popular of Dvorák's four late tone poems, all of which are greatly overshadowed by the Czech composer's concertos and last symphonies. London Philharmonic Orchestra's Jurowski a hypnotic force 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

As an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, he took classes in acting, directing and film; he also played the cello in the symphony orchestra. Truth, Lies and Chinese Art Inspire ‘a Puzzle Box of a Play’ 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Chessa, in an interview, described the process of creating this edition, and how he views the symphony in relation to the other works of Eastman’s catalog. A Long-Lost Symphonic Love Story Is Told Again 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

If we must hear Mozart symphonies, there are many performed only rarely; is yet another “Jupiter” necessary? Music Review: Alice Coote and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet at Mostly Mozart 2013-07-31T21:15:18Z

The first sketches for the symphony were among the few possessions that Weill carried with him when he left Berlin in 1933, and Mr. Kahane said that he hears in it a work of exile. Jeffrey Kahane Conducts New York Philharmonic 2014-03-21T22:19:16Z

I am surrounded by animals — not tourists, whose voices are happily missing from the symphony of sawing katydids, chirping frogs and singing birds. Costa Rica’s ‘biologically intense’ Osa Peninsula is truly wild 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

The Montreal Symphony is excellent, and the Beethoven symphony performance that ends the program should be strong. A Bracing Breath of Spring Air From All Directions 2011-04-29T16:17:11Z

But each resonates with the others, like movements in a melancholy symphony. ‘The Americans’: In Season 4, the Wars Grow Colder and More Dangerous 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

Last season, the Hallé participated in a cycle of Mahler symphonies; here, it presented a selection of early drafts. Hall?/Elder - review 2010-10-04T20:45:00Z

My reactions have been mixed, at best, to his accounts of that Bruckner symphony and other works including Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” and Debussy’s “La Mer.” The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

All of Beethoven’s nine symphonies, to me, are one. Wayne Shorter, Jazz’s Abstruse Elder, Isn’t Done Innovating Yet 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Spielberg and Williams had appeared together before at symphony concerts in other cities including Atlanta and Phoenix. WATCH: Steven Spielberg surprises the audience at Seattle Symphony concert with John Williams 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

There's plenty to savour: cycles of Beethoven piano concertos, Mahler symphonies and Scriabin orchestral works, and a celebration of Henry Wood, plus a spectacular opening weekend. This week's new live music 2010-07-09T23:06:00Z

"I am traveling and trying to keep a balance between conducting opera and symphonies," he says. At SSO, Jesús López-Cobos to lead Spanish-influenced program 2012-05-31T20:19:05Z

The new work, “The Illustrated Farewell,” is to use the whole symphony. New Work by Twyla Tharp in Royal Ballet’s 2017-18 Season 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

David Bruce’s “Cut the Rug,” which seems constructed like a four-movement symphony on CD, became a run-on series of grooves and meditations encompassing Balkan-like rhythms and Andalusian flamenco. Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble make some joyful noise at the Hollywood Bowl 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

If Wednesday’s program, a Mozart piano concerto and a Bruckner symphony, didn’t work here, nothing else would matter — not the more spacious lobbies or the auditorium’s wraparound seating or the stylish restaurant. The Philharmonic Tests Its New Home With the Classics 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

Scannell is also somewhat of a symphony evangelist, having bought Spring for Music tickets for relatives in Pennsylvania. Seattle Symphony and ‘Ocean’ play to adoring crowd at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-08T00:33:04Z

They played Beethoven's Symphony No 1 and 2 with instruments that were around when Beethoven was writing these symphonies with the authentic method used to play them. On my radar: Park Chan-wook 2013-02-24T00:05:33Z

Even Wagner, no fan of Mendelssohn’s, admired the Romantic, poetic qualities of this symphony. Music Review: On a Cold Night, Bending the Rules of Harmony 2010-12-14T06:15:15Z

In the two mid-cycle concerts I attended, the Philharmonia shone in Beethoven's Third and Fourth symphonies, the latter notably fresh and radical. Cuarteto Casals; Beethovenfest Bonn 2012 – review 2012-10-13T23:06:30Z

“For me, it’s not just thinking about how you sell tickets, but how you build relationships, how you mix programs and take the symphony to people in their community,” Woods said. Seattle Symphony CEO Simon Woods going to Los Angeles Philharmonic 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z

Cycles of Beethoven’s complete piano sonatas, symphonies and string quartets are commonplace; the violin sonatas are much less frequently offered in entirety. Music Review: Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace in Beethoven Violin Sonatas 2014-03-03T22:56:20Z

Most of the great conductors have had a preference for either Bruckner or Mahler, Bruckner’s successor as a creator of giant late-Romantic Viennese symphonies: it’s a matter of taste. Daniel Barenboim and the Music of Anton Bruckner 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

Still’s symphony received a robust round of performances in the United States in the 1930s. When Europe Offered Black Composers an Ear 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

And fresh off of listening to a version by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Mark Swed caught the Pasadena Symphony’s take on the “symphony of symphonies.” Essential Arts: Dudamel speaks out, the new rack of Tony nominees, Cheech Marin's Chicano art center 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z

The program also offered the New York premiere of Tod Machover’s “Philadelphia Voices,” the latest in his series of collaborative “city symphonies.” Review: Jonas Kaufmann Takes a Big Step Toward ‘Tristan’ 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

But it reminded us that this was still a symphony concert, and Barnatan’s playing was lively and wonderfully expressive. A symphony for Los Angeles, just one otherworldly delight at L.A. Phil's Mozart and Pärt festival 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

His third symphony, the so-called Organ Symphony, is sometimes derided as a potboiler, but I submit that there are few joy-delivery systems better than the piece’s finale. “Babe”: Pig at the Philharmonic 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

With such a consciously exotic idea at the film's heart, it may be obtuse to ask for plausibility but there's an atonal symphony of false notes in the drama and performances. 'A cauldron of iffy acting' 2013-03-20T15:56:11Z

Playing with the symphony behind her is "brilliant," like a wave lifting her up and over everything. Brandi Carlile returns home with hit album, new spouse 2012-11-18T00:58:27Z

It’s nice that the Chinese want to play an “American” symphony, although just how American Dvorák’s “New World” remains questionable. A diplomatic China Philharmonic plays Disney Hall 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

The symphony rehearsals are fairly standard, he says, but rock ’n’ roll-based pieces from “Elect the Dead,” while technically easier, require some rhythmically tricky parts that the musicians have to play with total accuracy. System of a Down's Serj Tankian goes classical with symphonic concerts in Northridge 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

Think of his last three symphonies or the six quartets he dedicated to Haydn. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: The Vienna Four Part 2 2011-01-11T12:00:49Z

But the Montreal Symphony is here with Kent Nagano leading a program tracing the evolution of the symphony, from Gabrieli brass works and Bach sinfonias to ’s Fifth. Spring Performance: Music : Calling All Orchestras: Bring a Creative Program 2011-02-20T02:01:55Z

This clip is a festival of silly physical comedy with almost no actual scripted words which culminates in a symphony of deft physical comedy. The Fast Show returns! Here are six of the best sketches 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Across the country, the symphonies and theaters abound with performers trained in Moscow or St. Petersburg or Kiev. Explorer: Israel With a Russian Accent (and Pork) 2010-02-27T04:22:00Z

That heaving portrait of a belief-starved Britain was an audacious symphony of words, ideas and characters you hated to love. Hugh Jackman Stars in ‘The River’ on Broadway 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z

Once the excitable St. Lawrence enters, those dotted Beethoven rhythms from the scherzos of his late quartets and symphonies become manic. A serious Beethoven in John Adams' latest 'Absolute Jest' 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

What blew my mind was that a movie could be pure art, like a painting or a symphony. James Cameron on Science Fiction, ‘Avatar’ and the Challenges of a ‘Terminator’ Reboot 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

My wife’s the reason anything gets done/ She nudges me towards promise by degrees / She is a perfect symphony of one/ Our son is her most beautiful reprise. Lin-Manuel Miranda Reads Powerful Sonnet to Honor Orlando 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

In a phone interview earlier this week, bandleader Thomas Lauderdale said the symphony connection came as a natural move. Pink Martini arrives in Seattle with plenty of fizz 2010-04-15T20:30:00Z

His many recordings include not only those Bernstein scores but also all the Tchaikovsky symphonies, and now he works for the company with the greatest number of Tchaikovsky ballets. Review: New York City Ballet’s Winter Season Blends Movement and Music 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

The chorale seeks members "with significant choral experience," according to the symphony. Seattle Symphony Chorale sets auditions 2010-08-20T20:05:00Z

Dumb as dirt and twice as filling, “Chapter 3” is a symphony of dazzlingly sterile, cartoonish abuse. ‘John Wick: Chapter 3’ Review: Keanu Reeves Is Back for Another Brutal Round 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

At a waste disposal factory, crushed electronics clatter like a symphony, which flows into the rumble of a freight train. ‘Users’ Review: Brave New World 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

Five years ago, for instance, she brought Hungarian conductor Ivan Fischer to lead a Beethoven symphony cycle of back-to-back performances with a modern orchestra and a period instrument ensemble. Lincoln Center artistic director Jane Moss conducts surprising successes 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

There are 200 compositions, three symphonies, a Broadway musical and a ballet. Arts centre honours Clockwork Orange author 2011-02-15T11:49:16Z

“There’s certainly a comfort zone to continuing in a symphony orchestra,” he said. Pit vs. Stage: Longer Nights and More Rubato 2010-07-13T20:41:00Z

He continues, ramping up the melodrama: "These are not Hollywood sound effects, this is the music they play every night in London: the symphony of war!" New band of the day - Public Service Broadcasting (No 1,414) 2012-12-12T17:00:45Z

Audiences flocked enthusiastically to hear the latest symphony of Haydn, Mendelssohn, Sibelius and Shostakovich, but those days are apparently behind us. Review | Shift festival illustrates a clutch shortfall in today’s symphony culture 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

His seventh and final symphony is perhaps as close to symphonic perfection as a mortal can achieve. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z

Lang’s “Scape,” an absorbing and consistently surprising dance that had its world premiere as part of the “New Moves: symphony + dance” festival, sneaked up on us. Jessica Lang Dance, Leila Josefowicz and the NSO, waltzing together onstage

“I love the symphony and theater — these things that people think are stuffy,” Willems says. Mo Willems brings a little silliness into the Kennedy Center’s storied halls 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

The symphony, one of Mozart’s mature masterworks, needs no special pleading, but here a thoughtful context and vivacious playing made it sound especially commanding. 2010-02-15T05:07:00Z

The strike, which began when the musicians boycotted a Wednesday rehearsal, forced the symphony to cancel two shows earlier in the week. Fourth concert canceled as San Francisco Symphony strike continues 2013-03-17T04:41:38Z

If that’s the case, it’s downright inexplicable that it gets programmed so much; I may have heard it more than any other Tchaikovsky symphony. Review | A light Ax, a ponderous Fate: NSO plays Mozart and Tchaikovsky 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

The symphony expects to use the space for creative residencies, performances and as an artistic incubator for local artists. Seattle Symphony building Octave 9, a new performance venue inside Benaroya Hall 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

In its inspired alignment of old and new, the concert recalled last week’s program at the New York Philharmonic, which also closed with a rediscovered symphony by a Black composer. Review: Without a Note of Beethoven, an Orchestra Shines 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

Probably this was just a matter of their unusually long symphonies and inscrutable mysteries contained therein. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Bruckner at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-04-25T21:50:09Z

We didn't have a machine that we could feed sketches to, push a button and have it spit out a symphony. How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

He introduced the main event, the Haydn symphony, by noting that the composer wrote 104 symphonies. Dennis Prager draws classical newbies, and a musicians' boycott, at Disney Hall concert 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

New, a New Zealander with a burgeoning résumé — director of Ontario’s Hamilton Philharmonic, visiting privileges at the St. Louis and Dallas symphonies, a long list of guest engagements — displayed a vigorous, more-is-more style. Review | At the NSO, a vibrant program under vigorous control 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

We stayed miraculously dry in our tent during a night of thunderstorms and steady rain, awakening to a symphony of birdsong, including the throaty warble of the red-winged blackbird. This secluded state park on the Chesapeake Bay offers an alternative to summer’s crowds 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

All we see of The Equestrian Vortex, the film under production, are the opening titles: a screeching symphony in skulls and blood that will have giallo aficionados frothing with pleasure. Berberian Sound Studio – review 2012-06-29T16:06:07Z

Or Franz Schubert, who died at 31, having composed 600 songs, seven symphonies, and a vast body of incomparable chamber and piano music. Perspective | A portrait of Vincent van Gogh as a tormented soul 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

The First is here appropriately fleet, with an emphasis on the innovative swerve the symphony takes in its third movement. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

While my parents devoted their time and energy to the service, I daydreamed about the forthcoming sweetmeat, a symphony of tabla and harmonium scoring my reverie. The sweet Sikh ritual of karah prasad 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z

Renowned as a confident, warm communicator, Alsop, a New Yorker, is a former chief conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, and now leads the symphony orchestras of Baltimore and São Paulo. Last night of Proms 2013 to be conducted by a woman 2013-04-18T13:09:00Z

He will be leading festival choirs and choruses as well as the festival symphony in Verdi's "Requiem Mass." Spoleto Festival USA announces its 2013 season 2012-12-09T14:01:31Z

People who run symphonies should perhaps consider the novelty of forbidding electronic devices of any kind in the hall, and handing out noise-canceling earphones. Hand over your cellphone, and obey the gong. Marina Abramovic reinvents Bach. 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

He made a solid case for the prospect on Wednesday at Alice Tully Hall, with spirited, unpretentious performances of Schumann’s First and Second symphonies, alongside a premiere by Gabriela Ortiz written to accompany them. Review: Gustavo Dudamel Could Be the New York Philharmonic’s Future 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

Put another way, the Fifth, which the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will play next month, is a symphony about hope. Vaughan Williams: Complicated, but Not Quite Conservative 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

In 2021, the effect is a symphony that feels both long overdue and profoundly on time; that hangs around in your head for hours after its shocking climax. Review | My spirits needed a lift. Violinist Hilary Hahn and the NSO delivered, in D major. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

The differences between today’s symphony orchestras and those of Dvorak’s vintage are slight. Review: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at Alice Tully Hall 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

The symphony sounded more supple; the strings in the Ravel were especially sumptuous and sweet in tone. Review: Passel of Frenchmen fit into symphony's evening 2010-06-11T18:48:00Z

Well, in addition to very low job satisfaction, you get performances which inspire the phrase: “Once you’ve heard one major American symphony orchestra’s Beethoven 5 these days, you’ve pretty much heard them all!” ArtsBeat: Reader Response: Orchestras Are Over-Extended 2011-04-22T15:56:25Z

SUN Marches and symphonies by British style brass band, 2 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-03-14T01:47:17Z

Auden in turn hated both Bernstein’s symphony and Robbins’s ballet; he would have surely hated Mr. Scarlett’s potpourri for its sheer harmlessness. Royal Ballet’s Focus on British Choreography Exposes Its Limits 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

At the concert's start, Lamell asked the audience, "How many are hearing a symphony orchestra for the first time?" Dennis Prager draws classical newbies, and a musicians' boycott, at Disney Hall concert 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

It's a juggernaut of a symphony, but under Bychkov it sounded expansively, generously lyrical, as well as driven. BBCSO/Bychkov ? review 2011-03-22T19:31:01Z

Sonic Evolution" "attracts a lot of people going to the symphony for the first time. Blue Scholars, Alice in Chains inspire composers for 'Sonic Evolution' 2012-10-23T14:31:03Z

The symphonies, ballets and concertos sit alongside rambunctious concert works, many pieces for brass and wind band, and the film scores that are arguably his greatest achievement. The Hilarious, Heartbreaking Life and Music of Malcolm Arnold 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

In Shostakovich's Leningrad symphony the mutual energising between the two sets of players paid off best of all. RNO/LPO/Jurowski – review 2012-10-08T17:30:02Z

The long second part of the symphony turns, almost operatically, to the final part of Goethe’s “Faust,” an increasingly ecstatic heavenly ascent. Why America got it wrong on Riccardo Chailly and how the Italian conductor is proving it 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

The confusion over Mahler's symphony begins with its epic, tortured progress from death to glory. Hidden code of two great composers deciphered 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

No fossil evidence suggests that a giant ground sloth ever composed a symphony or that a Devonian fish split the atom even once. ‘The Skin of Our Teeth’ Review: A Party for the End of the World 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z

During his life, Bruckner was overshadowed by Brahms, who hewed closely to accepted forms in his four symphonies. Bruckner's Second Act 2011-07-16T14:05:00Z

Through video recordings, including the Digital Concert Hall, I have also seen him conduct Berg’s “Lulu” and Strauss’s “Salome,” along with symphonies by Beethoven and, in a welcome surprise, Josef Suk. Musicians Love the Conductor Kirill Petrenko. It Shows. 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

On the surface, Mr. Rhorer’s program was an old-style Mostly Mozart concert, with a Haydn symphony as the opener, followed by a Mozart concerto and ending with a Mozart symphony. Music Review: Mostly Mozart at Avery Fisher Hall - Review 2011-08-25T22:15:11Z

They vary between big symphony shows, smaller shows with just a trio and even smaller shows with just me and Michael Rafter at the piano. Sutton Foster: From ‘Star Search’ to centerstage at the Kennedy Center 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

The symphony will perform “Requiem,” Mozart’s final work — left unfinished at the time of his 1791 death — in three concerts beginning Thursday, Oct. ‘It’s good, man’: Seattle Symphony Orchestra concertmaster offers a peek at Mozart’s ‘Requiem’ 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

“It was planned before Covid, but became prescient with the timing,” said Martha A. Gilmer, the chief executive of the symphony. San Diego Gets Its Answer to the Hollywood Bowl, Just in Time 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

In addition to its star turn in “Tár,” there is “Decision to Leave,” a fast-paced detective thriller by the South Korean director Park Chan-wook that makes defiant use of the symphony’s fourth movement. Mahler’s Having a Moment. He’s Got Lydia Tár to Thank for It. 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

Part of the appeal of his music is a sense of sweep that harks back to the symphonies of Beethoven, whose orchestral writing represented a kind of public oratory. Andrew Norman on Loving ‘Star Wars’ and Pushing Musical Boundaries 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

After the 1908 premiere of this symphony in St. Petersburg, it became common practice for conductors to make cuts in the piece, sometimes sizable ones. 2010-01-09T01:00:00Z

Haydn’s refined symphony earned the name “Philosopher” because of its unconventional first movement, a stately Adagio. Review: Susanna Malkki Returns to the New York Philharmonic 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

Opera houses and symphony orchestras tend to draw an older and more vulnerable audience than night clubs and comedy clubs. Cities and States Are Easing Covid Rules. Should the Arts Follow? 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z

But Guy expanded the piece later for full big band and symphony orchestra combined, for a conservatoire workshop – and it's just as well he did, because that's indirectly how we got to this Prom concert. Django Reinhardt: music, mischief and magic 2012-08-19T21:00:00Z

Max was always inviting some pretty risky comparisons, as does any composer who dares title a large-scale orchestral work a "symphony". A guide to Peter Maxwell Davies's music 2012-08-20T16:14:00Z

One is to explore the connections among Beethoven’s symphonies and three worthy but less traveled 20th-century works. Music Review: New York Philharmonic in the Modern Beethoven Festival 2012-03-02T22:43:08Z

It’s only two minutes long, but “Amber,” from the second half of the project, runs like a spaced-out symphony. Sky Ferreira’s Dazzling, Defiant Return, and 11 More New Songs 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

The brief but striking sequence is an architectural symphony. “The Founder”: A Fast-Food Visionary on Shaky Moral Ground 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

What he called "a symphony of nature" is a veritable hymn to the universe, whose gradual progess over some 100 minutes takes on a superhuman scale. BBC Now/Otaka ? review 2010-10-04T21:45:00Z

Its conceit, through all of its revisions, has been to combine the grand forces of a symphony orchestra with those of Mr. Marsalis’s Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Music Review: The New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-06-02T20:37:30Z

But in this most restless and despairing symphony of the Mahler cycle, Alsop chose cogency over trenchancy much of the time. A Mahler under control 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Nor, crucially, is this year's Mozart symphony famine a one-off omission. The Proms' neglect of Mozart means we are losing touch with his true genius 2012-07-19T21:00:04Z

Everyone hears symphony orchestras in movies, in so many different ways. New pops conductor ready to put his stamp on symphony holiday program 2012-11-30T00:12:26Z

But the symphony also saw its musicians strike last year in a dispute over wages and health care costs. New Kennedy Center leader Deborah Rutter blazed trail in Seattle 2013-12-12T19:31:25Z

Last fall he was to have conducted all nine Beethoven symphonies with the Boston Symphony. For James Levine, Now May Be a Time to Choose 2010-04-12T22:46:00Z

When the symphony returns on May 30 and June 1, it will be joined by Ravel's Piano Concerto in G, with Hèléne Grimaud as soloist. With Dudamel and Mozart, there's life in the old 'Linz' yet 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

Still, a symphony orchestra was never quite a home away from home for Shankar. Zubin Mehta's L.A. return gives Shankar raga a proper home and makes Strauss hero's journey personal 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z

Major works include three symphonies and an opera, The Mines of Sulphur. Composer Sir Richard Rodney Bennett dies aged 76 2012-12-25T14:46:08Z

Manze sculpted lines of searing intensity through the densely loaded score; there's a clarity to the textures he draws from this orchestra that really focused and drove the symphony's wayward energy. BBCSSO/Manze – review 2013-05-03T13:16:09Z

It received an incisive, vibrant performance from the East Coast orchestra, a cheerful freelance ensemble with representatives from several major symphonies. Music Review: East Coast Chamber Orchestra at Tishman Auditorium 2012-02-07T23:35:30Z

"The orchestra has survived a 'save the symphony' campaign in the early 1900s, it has survived a couple of world wars and a depression," Vulgamore said. Musicians clamor for answers from Philly Orchestra 2011-04-25T21:08:12Z

The symphony was recorded as part of the Philharmonic’s Nielsen Project, begun last season with the Second Symphony. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Carl Nielsen Symphony 2012-06-15T21:52:06Z

Such raw and immediate social relevance is uncommon and important in classical music today, and it made even a Mahler symphony — something raw and searing in its own right — seem almost peripheral, a rare feat. A Mahler Mini-Festival in New York 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z

The first point about the tempo is that in earlier editions of the symphonies, there were no metronome marks, so that authorized slow tempos. A Conductor Brings Nearly a Century of Experience to Beethoven 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

Consider the pioneering pieces of the 1960s, such as “Music in Similar Motion” and “Music in Fifths,” the operas “Einstein on the Beach” and “Satyagraha,” and the hypnotic late symphonies. ‘Words Without Music’: A look inside Philip Glass’s creative genius 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

Maybe they just got Riccardo Muti's stellar new recording of Berlioz's symphony with the Chicago Symphony and figured it doesn't get much better than that. Conductor Pablo Heras-Casado turns on the charm at Hollywood Bowl 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

The symphony is often felt, with some justice, to sprawl, but Oramo held the whole together most impressively. First night of the Proms 2013-07-13T00:25:10Z

A poignant jumble of modernism and nostalgia, Europe and America, “The Rite of Spring” and “Appalachian Spring,” the symphony is — like Mahler’s Seventh — a study in overripeness and unsettled mood. Review: The Berlin Philharmonic Gives a Master Class at Carnegie 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z

As model for American composers, however, this became something of an obstacle that needed to be overcome if we were to write our own kind of symphonies. Dvorak's 'New World' and a new piano concerto for our times at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

But there's a moment in every parent's life when you have to accept that if your kid isn't writing symphonies at 4, he ain't Mozart. Motherlode Blog: The Jock (and his Dad) at the Chess Board 2012-07-29T11:00:43Z

It’s not necessarily illegal to give people 100 air horns and conduct a symphony in the streets and use the building as the resonator. A Bare Market Lasts One Morning 2011-08-01T22:22:42Z

The head of the symphony board does not run the orchestra. ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ and entertainment’s classical-music problem 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

Rebecca Nicholson It's easy to cynically pigeonhole this film – a documentary about a bunch of kids from the less desirable neighbourhoods of Mumbai preparing to perform The Sound Of Music with a professional symphony orchestra. Tonight's TV highlights: Caroline Quentin: A Passage Through India 2011-03-08T00:05:54Z

It’s not just that his symphonies are so big and blocky; it’s that he rewrote them so many times, so the “first” symphony, which was played on Thursday, was revised over more than 20 years. Under Eschenbach, NSO pays dutiful homage to greatness 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

For a meditative visitor sitting on one of the folding chairs scattered about, it all becomes a Cage-ian symphony: a harmonious blend of sonic textures, timbres and rhythms. Art Review: Pondering Sculpture Under the Trees 2010-08-26T20:00:00Z

This was not an occasion for a detailed critical assessment of a Mahler symphony performance. Music Review: Mahler?s ?Resurrection? From Philharmonic - Review 2011-09-11T22:08:40Z

It's the opening chord of Gustav Mahler's first symphony and, absorbing though the former prime minister's words are, I confess that Mahler ousts even Tony Blair every time. If Blair absorbs me, Mahler's chord ousts him every time 2010-09-02T20:30:00Z

Shostakovich may have described his ninth symphony as “a merry piece.” Guest conductor Olari Elts to lead SSO Shostakovich program 2014-01-24T01:35:08Z

Junior Orchestra, which performed pieces by the Black composers Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Stewart Goodyear, as well as a Tchaikovsky symphony. A European Music Festival’s Push for Diversity Stirs Debate 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

The drink was elegant and stealthily boozy — a quiet symphony of botanical gin, prickly fizz and bright lemon softened with simple syrup. The unfailing elegance of a French 75 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z

But the documentary lacks the rigor it would take to turn this warm portrait into a proper cinematic symphony. ‘¡Viva Maestro!’ Review: A Documentary in Need of a Conductor 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

Contrasting with the organ symphony, after intermission, was the quintessentially American “Appalachian Spring,” which epitomizes the idea of straightforwardness. Review | NSO gets off to an energetic, all-American start 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

Amber’s arrival in Italy is hailed with the kind of sweeping symphony one might expect to hear in a World War I romance over a shot of a dumpster. ‘Spin Me Round’ Review: Eat Pray Lust 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

Endowment funds, which are separate from year-to-year operating expenses, are invested with the intention that they'll yield income for the symphony. Symphony likely to break even for season; cash challenges remain 2012-08-24T18:58:03Z

Slight and precocious, the symphony was notable mainly for its passing instances of subtly contrasted dynamics, keenly represented here with precise, lively playing. Music Review: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Jeremy Denk at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-20T22:02:00Z

"Mozart in the Jungle," Amazon's new comedy series set in the world of a fictional symphony orchestra, has officially been picked up for a second season, the online company announced Wednesday. 'Mozart in the Jungle': What it gets right and wrong about classical music 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

But the usual format, in which the symphonies are offered as the unified vision of a single conductor and orchestra, lacks the out-of-the-box sparkle that today’s taste for high-concept productions demands. Music Review: Ivan Fischer Offers Beethoven at Alice Tully Hall 2010-03-26T20:50:00Z

Dvorák’s symphony happened to be the main work on the orchestra’s opening concert in Oct. L.A. Phil lives up to the hype with electrifying guest conductor David Robertson 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

As soon as these words pass her lips the song jolts into life and the whole thing transforms into a baroque pop symphony. New music: Laura Mvula – Like the Morning Dew 2012-11-09T10:36:00Z

“When you have a work that just sits on a program with a Beethoven symphony and an overture,” he said, “that makes it hard for the audience to understand why it’s even there.” Got a Classic Piece? Here Comes the Sequel. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

The Bax was new to the Proms, the only one of his symphonies never played there before. Prom 43: RPO/Litton ? review 2011-08-17T09:57:20Z

Bernstein so desperately wanted to be taken seriously by the musical world as a composer of symphonies, not of songs. Marin Alsop and Michael Tilson Thomas on why Leonard Bernstein and his music live on

Changes in performance practice are surely the most significant, with symphony orchestras everywhere largely withdrawing from the pre-Beethoven repertoire in much of the orchestral world, and not just at the Proms. The Proms' neglect of Mozart means we are losing touch with his true genius 2012-07-19T21:00:04Z

He simultaneously glorified the traditional forms — symphony, sonata, quartet — and pushed them to the breaking point. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Beethoven 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

Thank heavens, the universe, the spheres and these Danish musicians for the rest of the programme, which oddly segued between pieces and which included Ligeti, Tchaikovsky and, played with exuberant mannerisms, Sibelius's mighty fifth symphony. The Rake's Progress; BBC Prom 35; Three Choirs festival 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z

Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic are presenting all four of the finished symphonies in two concerts at Carnegie Hall, the second to take place on Monday evening. Schumann, via Simon Rattle, Robin Ticciati and Nézet-Séguin 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

This is the most classical of the symphonies in form and content, an inventive and ingeniously orchestrated work, played here with plush, textured sound and winning grace. Music Review: Mariinsky Orchestra Plays Tchaikovsky at Carnegie - Review 2011-10-11T20:45:23Z

"La Valse" and "Faun" will probably be the big draws at the symphony concerts. French accent at SSO: Morlot to lead works by Ravel, Debussy, Dutilleux 2012-03-08T22:02:11Z

His early signal successes as an orchestral conductor included a Mozart symphony series with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor and Early-Music Specialist, Dies at 86 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

The action grows symphonic in scope, but it's a strangely lumpy symphony with an abrupt wrap-up and an oddball disproportion between themes stated and themes explored. Ward Just's novel 'Rodin's Debutante': converging lives, loose ends 2011-03-09T23:49:04Z

He was a symphony in black, right down to his leather trousers. The night I partied with John Lennon. By James Kaplan 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

As is his custom, he conducted the symphony, one of the repertory’s most sweeping and profound works, from memory. Gustavo Dudamel in New York: Selfies, Hugs and Mahler 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z

Both performances were finely detailed, with the woodwind very elegant in the overture, and the strings supremely rich and eloquent in the symphony. Czech Philharmonic/Gardiner 2010-08-30T10:51:00Z

Beginning with the epically proportioned first movement, this piece tears up the rule book of the Classical symphony. The Ultimate Beethoven Symphony Collection 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

He often recounts a story from his youth when he nearly wore out an LP of the Bruckner second symphony while his friends were listening to the Beatles. Bruckner's Second Act 2011-07-16T14:05:00Z

He gives the impression of being a genuine musician, able to analyze Rachmaninoff’s piano works, as well as his symphonies and songs. Daniil Trifonov, New to Rachmaninoff, but a Bold and Youthful Echo 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

Parry provides us with the answer, calling it variously "lightweight" and "quite a small and unimposing kind of symphony". Don Giovanni; La bohème; English Music festival – review 2012-06-09T23:06:16Z

Dutoit, who conducted the North Korean state symphony on his visit, said he was further inspired by a teary-eyed airport farewell from orchestra members. Charles Dutoit pushes for inter-Korean orchestra 2011-07-22T05:05:10Z

We tend to think of Joseph Haydn as a consolidator: the composer who drew together numerous musical currents to perfect the symphony and the string quartet, defining forms of the Classical and Romantic eras. Review: Haydn’s ‘Seven Last Words of Christ,’ by 2 String Quartets 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

His musical "Prometheus Bound" is scheduled to open in March 2011 at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., and he's finishing up a "classical jazz symphony" that he hopes to premiere next year. System of a Down's Tankian explores new "Harmonies" 2010-08-21T01:04:00Z

The symphony and opera calculated that their fundraising dollars are better used on streamlined on-site galas — beautiful parties, but nothing like an old-fashioned ball. Ballgowns, tuxedos, champagne: The last real ball in Washington is a relic of the past 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z

This was the penultimate concert in Mr. Gergiev’s New York survey of the Mahler symphonies, begun in October with the Mariinsky Orchestra at . Music Review: Mahler?s Third, Whimsy-Free Version 2011-02-27T22:42:49Z

But Urbanski and the orchestra showed no more than a very, very good symphony. NSO offers energetic Dvorak and a fresh cellist​ 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

The symphony and the opera have seen marked increases in flexible “choose-your-own” subscriptions. Seattle classical-music, opera groups shake off dust to capture new audiences 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

“In a way, the symphony orchestras don’t dare to play this repertoire,” she said of the Baroque. A Female Conductor Joins the Ranks of Top U.S. Orchestras 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

The appointment signals the start of a new era for the Philharmonic, America’s oldest symphony orchestra, which is working to attract new audiences as it recovers from the turmoil of the coronavirus pandemic. New York Philharmonic Chooses Arts Veteran as Leader 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

As if to balance that, the Sibelius symphony was rife with woodwind and brass chorales; the strings don’t even enter until the 18th measure. The Boston Symphony Finds Surprises and Strengths in New Music 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

If there is plenty of evidence of the Dudamel of old in these accounts of the last three Dvorak symphonies, though, there is not much proof of the stature to which the photography aspires. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z

Set to music by Joby Talbot, who refers to his score as “a kind of water symphony,” the ballet, more forcefully than dreamily, inhabits an underwater world. Pacific Northwest Ballet Presents ‘Debonair’ 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

For months Mr. Tao, immersed himself in Bruckner’s challenging, sometimes mystifying symphony as he worked on his commission. Review: The Philharmonic Puts a Young Composer’s Twist on Bruckner 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

Not far from Lenin’s flat, James Joyce was writing word symphonies into his “Scribbledehobble” notebook and beginning to write “Ulysses.” Lenin and the Russian Spark 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

His sole symphony, rooted in Beethoven’s architecture and Schubert’s lyricism, shows a promise that went unfulfilled. Music Review: New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-12-31T00:30:22Z

Written in the early 1770s, it is one of the composer’s so-called “entertainment symphonies,” which followed a period of Sturm und Drang symphonies. When Dennis Prager conducts Santa Monica Symphony, there's no avoiding politics 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

With Beethoven's Fifth, the most famous of all symphonies, the repertory was standard, but Dudamel's commanding performance was not. Everything goes right for Gustavo Dudamel in Beethoven program 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

Alas, I found the piece, which Mr. Bates calls an “energy symphony,” musically thin. Music Review: Riccardo Muti and Chicago Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2012-10-07T22:03:08Z

The forces here were much smaller, with five voices instead of two choirs and an instrumentation of cello, clarinet, horn, harp and theorbo, instead of full symphony orchestra. Hebrides Ensemble – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-26T17:30:02Z

Mr. Husa created works in most of the standard concert-music forms apart from opera, including two symphonies, several concertos, four string quartets and three ballets. Karel Husa, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Composer, Dies at 95 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

The question here is twofold: whether any of the individual Cloud Atlas tales packs enough suspense to fascinate the viewer, and, lacking that, whether the various story snippets, in concert, form some grand symphony. Cloud Atlas: The Wachowskis Struggle in the Stratosphere 2012-10-25T12:00:33Z

The main offering was the composer’s astounding Symphony No. 4 in A minor, the most radical of his seven symphonies and one not heard at the Philharmonic since 1987. Review: The Philharmonic Hails Sibelius, and Offers Joshua Bell on a Mendelssohn 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

It was allegedly inspired by Maya Angelou and the main note is “golden symphony orchid.” | The New Owners of Fashion Week and New Homes for Rihanna, Burberry and Acne Studios 2013-12-20T23:29:18Z

“We want people to feel that this symphony is their community orchestra.” Seattle Symphony conductor Ludovic Morlot to leave next year 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

“There’s no question that the ‘Jeremiah’ symphony is a wonderful work, the violin concerto is wonderful,” Mauceri says. Perspective | Does Leonard Bernstein have any heirs? 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

Valery Gergiev and the London Symphony Orchestra began their run of Brahms symphonies in Edinburgh with a performance of the First that was glorious in the end, but not without its ropey moments. LSO/Gergiev – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-21T17:44:01Z

The Seventh is the least neurotic of Mahler's symphonies, and for those who see him primarily as psychodramatic, it is consequently his most problematic and perverse. BBC Philharmonic/Noseda 2010-04-26T21:30:00Z

He is working on his ninth symphony, for the Queen's diamond jubilee next year. Royal composer Peter Maxwell Davies attacks 'lazy' conductors 2011-01-10T01:00:37Z

"It is one of the few autograph manuscripts of a symphony, central to the international orchestral repertory, remaining in private hands," Sotheby's said, adding that the manuscript contains material absent from any published edition. Manuscript of Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 set for London sale 2014-04-17T15:33:03Z

“Our motivation resets over the course of the symphony of the night,” she said. On the Mattress for ‘Sleep,’ an 8-Hour Lullaby 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

The other is to make the Beethoven symphonies sound fresh, even to listeners who have been hearing them their whole lives. Music Review: New York Philharmonic in the Modern Beethoven Festival 2012-03-02T22:43:08Z

The musician also improvised on themes from three Beethoven symphonies and the piano piece "Fur Elise" for the recital in the composer's birth city. U.S. organist Carpenter bends rules of performing 2013-09-16T20:23:19Z

A symphony orchestra program — or an opera, or a piano recital — is not an exam. Curious About Classical Music? Here’s Where to Start 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

That was quite a surprise, partly because it was done with a symphony orchestra and using symphony orchestras wasn't really done. The stories of the Christmas hits 2010-12-26T00:55:51Z

Nelsons certainly left no doubt about the power of the emotions boiling beneath the surface of the symphony. CBSO/Nelsons - review 2011-02-03T16:47:54Z

Friday’s program also pays homage to two cultural icons unusual in any symphony hall: Andy Warhol and Thelonious Monk. Latest Seattle Symphony ‘[untitled]’ offering mixes Warhol and Monk 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

For more than a decade, Mr. Postilio lived by the Great American Songbook, singing on cruise ships and with symphony orchestras. Off Broadway, Showmen Seal Their Biggest Deal 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

The board said the musicians’ demands to preserve jobs and pay would require “agreeing to a budget that is millions of dollars in excess of what the symphony can afford.” San Antonio Symphony to Dissolve Amid Labor Dispute 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

The world continued to crash into Schubert symphonies over the next two weeks. Schubert's surprising relevance: Dudamel mines the promise of youth in trying times 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

“It was really touching, to see the Chinese symphony sharing a stage with the Philadelphia Orchestra forty years later,” said Craig Hamilton, vice president of global initiatives and government relations for the Philadelphia Orchestra. ArtsBeat: Philadelphia Orchestra Tours China 40 Years After Historic Visit 2013-06-07T16:41:48Z

He encouraged other wealthy people to fill the gaps and support arts centers, schools, parks, libraries and local symphonies. Rick Steves gives $1M to arts in Edmonds 2011-08-26T03:09:03Z

He has recorded accounts of her three extant symphonies, and he continues to investigate her lesser-known orchestral compositions. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

Fitting Tippett’s symphony into that scheme was a stretch, based solely on its inclusion of the sound of human breathing, digitally sampled and amplified. Music Review: New Jersey Symphony Orchestra at Prudential Hall 2013-01-06T21:57:01Z

“We’re saying, ‘Watch our TV show, and maybe this will inspire you to go to the symphony and have classical music be part of your life.’ ” All-Star Orchestra Records Series for WNET 2012-08-31T21:48:03Z

His speech is a symphony of growls, snorts and flights of guttural eloquence. ‘Mr. Turner,’ About the Life of the Artist J. M. W. Turner 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

In 1945, Shostakovich announced his intention to create an epic, euphoric symphony with choir and soloists to celebrate the victory over Nazi Germany. Hallé/Znaider – review 2012-05-25T18:06:41Z

Petrenko's performance of Shostakovich's most controversial symphony, meanwhile, ranks among his finest and most uncompromising achievements. RLPO/Petrenko – review 2013-02-10T18:40:19Z

Beginning this weekend, guest conductor Roberto Abbado, immersed in an exceptionally busy season crisscrossing the Atlantic to symphony and opera halls all over Europe and North America, will enjoy a brief residency in Seattle. Roberto Abbado becomes familiar guest at Seattle Symphony 2012-02-09T21:58:10Z

The healthy brain is a symphony of 100 billion neurons, the actions of each individual brain cell harmonising into a whole that enables thoughts, movements, memories or even just a sneeze. Brain On Fire: 'Blood and foam began to spurt out of my mouth' 2013-01-13T00:05:24Z

Composers, critics, and concertgoers tend to think of Romanticism as a style that’s friendly and familiar, whether it’s offered in the form of a Schubert sonata, a Tchaikovsky symphony, or a Brahms quintet. Cultural Clicks: Tweets from God, the Songs of Summer, and Soccer Art 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

The longest movement in the symphony, it has a gloriously triumphant ending, making this movement a highlight of the recording, followed by a high-octane scherzo that bubbles over into the finale. ‘The Weber Sisters’ throw fresh light on Mozart vocalism 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

Earlier installments in his symphony cycle capture his fascinations with mortality and the afterlife, as well as purely autobiographical anguish. Music Review: Daniel Harding Conducts New York Philharmonic in Mahler 2011-12-03T00:28:20Z

His career began at Ohio State University, where Mr. Allen was principal violist in a student symphony and was invited to play on the radio with a quartet. Peter Allen, stalwart host of the Metropolitan Opera’s radio broadcasts, dies at 96 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

Around 1817, the Royal Philharmonic Society in London commissioned Beethoven to write his Ninth and 10th symphonies. How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

One went back into the concert hall after intermission with a mind for Pärt’s 35-minute symphony. A symphony for Los Angeles, just one otherworldly delight at L.A. Phil's Mozart and Pärt festival 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

It's a bittersweet symphony of synths and strings over which he offers a cinematic – sometimes panoramic, other times close-up and gritty – view of life in the capital and its dead-end satellite suburbs. New band of the day ? No 841: Devlin 2010-08-05T14:29:00Z

Another highlight: a Sibelius festival led by new principal guest conductor Thomas Daugaard that features all seven of the Finnish composer’s symphonies. Yuja Wang, Yo-Yo Ma to appear in SSO’s 2014-15 season 2014-01-22T23:55:38Z

“Tchaikovsky did amazing operas, amazing symphonies, amazing chamber music, amazing ballet,” he said. At Lincoln Center, Cultural Institutions Team Up 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

After a New York Philharmonic performance the following year, Downes called it “the symphony of a poet, regardless of the throng, who communes with the ideal.” Vaughan Williams: Complicated, but Not Quite Conservative 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

Seattle Pro Musica’s “Ceremony of Carols” program caps a yearlong engagement with Britten’s work, starting with SPM’s collaboration with the symphony on War Requiem. Celebrate choral Britten with Esoterics, Seattle Pro Musica 2013-12-05T20:41:59Z

She has favored a symphony of earth tones that echo the environment around her — cream, olive green, peach, gray and black — as well as its vibe. How Should Gwyneth Paltrow Dress for Court? 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Vanska, handed No. 40 by the festival’s programmers, suggested opening with Mozart’s other G minor symphony as a way of comparing the two. The Week Ahead: Aug. 8 ? 14 2010-08-04T19:06:00Z

“It’s not just the audience; it’s the health of the company. You cannot put a symphony orchestra inside a pit, and performers and a chorus in intimate proximity on the stage of the Met.” The Metropolitan Opera Cancels All Fall Performances 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

City Arts began the campaign after spinning off from its parent company, Encore Media, best known to the general public for its printed performing-arts programs distributed at, say, the theater, ballet or symphony. City Arts is officially done: magazine ceases publication, lets go of staff 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

It unfolds as a visual symphony with five or six movements centered around a core aspect of life: death, birth, the age of awareness. Your guide to Terrence Malick's "Tree of Life" 2011-07-02T16:54:00Z

He begins strongly, though, with a vivid depiction of the circumstances surrounding the premiere of the symphony at the Kärntnertor Theater in Vienna on May 7, 1824. Books of The Times: Harvey Sachs?s ?Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824? 2010-06-17T21:09:00Z

Actually, there are six movements to this symphony. Music Review: At the Philharmonic, an Uneven Blend of Jazz 2010-09-23T05:53:00Z

For Mahler's symphony, I moved from my $85 seat to the $20 ones in the top balcony, which was nearly empty. Gemma New test-drives the Long Beach Symphony with an interesting, ambitious program 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

The scherzo from the first symphony is a wow moment, the strings careening on a knife-edge but perfectly together. CD reviews: Tetzlaff takes on Czech masters; Seattle’s Dutilleux 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Rattle significantly broadened the Philharmonic’s repertoire — not only by programming more new music, but also by reclaiming Baroque works that many symphony orchestras had ceded to early-music ensembles. Over 16 Years, Simon Rattle Transformed the Berlin Philharmonic. Here’s How. 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

Well, you read it here first – maybe … In any case, get your ears round Max's symphonies and see what you think. A guide to Peter Maxwell Davies's music 2012-08-20T16:14:00Z

Berlioz conceived “Lélio” as a sequel to the symphony and intended the two scores to be performed together. Music Review: Chicago Greets Its New Maestro, Who Arrives With Unusual Fare 2010-09-24T16:47:00Z

Indeed, Dawson’s symphony — once heralded as a brilliant success — had been dormant in the United States for decades. When Europe Offered Black Composers an Ear 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

He holds the symphony together not by showing where it's going but by going with it. Twigs break, cans bang and L.A. Philharmonic soars with Mahler 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

The mighty Berlin Philharmonic dominates New York’s music scene this week with five consecutive evenings of concerts at Carnegie Hall, working through the nine Beethoven symphonies. Classical Music This Week: Stops in Detroit, New Jersey and Berlin 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Some of its pacing calls to mind a Bruckner symphony, slathering on layer upon layer of sound, never making a statement once when five times will do. Pianist Ohlsson brings elegance to a whiz-bang performance of massive Busoni

More of a poem or a city symphony than a documentary, it drifts freely, sometimes frustratingly between captured and fictionalized moments. Review: ‘Hong Kong Trilogy,’ Captures the Voices of the People 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

Since the 1960s the conventional solution has been to accept as authentic only “original versions” of Bruckner symphonies, preserved in unpublished manuscripts. Still Searching For Bruckner?s True Intentions 2011-07-09T04:30:28Z

Then there’s this absolutely amazing change of tempo and atmosphere, like the moment in a Mahler symphony when grinding marches stop and you’re in a pastoral realm of cowbells and celestas. Art Review: ?De Kooning: A Retrospective? at MoMA - Review 2011-09-15T11:00:58Z

"My thesis was on founding and developing symphony orchestras," Spain says. Concert preview: Northwest Symphony Orchestra's 25th Anniversary 2012-04-26T20:11:08Z

He was a priest, then a soldier, then a violinist in the symphony, which were the worst years of his life. A Conversation With: John Malkovich: John Malkovich on Casanova and Other Roles 2013-05-27T21:18:58Z

‘BERNSTEIN’S PHILHARMONIC’ Though Leonard Bernstein’s centennial arrives next August, the New York Philharmonic got an early start this fall in honoring its legendary music director, with a series focused on Bernstein’s three overlooked symphonies. The Best Classical Music Performances of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

The first of these Hindemith discs won Eschenbach a Grammy last year; the second, devoted to two of the composer’s symphonies, just came out this fall. ‘The Weber Sisters’ throw fresh light on Mozart vocalism 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

Both sides said they were negotiating to try to resolve differences before the 103 symphony players are scheduled to leave next week for a U.S. Third concert canceled as San Francisco Symphony strike continues 2013-03-16T20:08:38Z

Beethoven’s Ninth has often been employed as a symphony of anger management. Classical music can unite and console in troubling, angry times 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

The charm and blarney, the threats and alibis, form a spectacular symphony of verbal belligerence, which Berlinger listens to and sorts out for viewers. Home Movies: Who’s the Bigger Criminal, Whitey Bulger or the FBI? 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

London's symphony orchestras – the London Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonia – are, like the Berlin Phil, composed of virtuosi. The secret of Berlin's shine 2011-02-27T17:00:01Z

Stravinsky used the word “symphonies” in the title in the ancient sense of the word, meaning sonorities that sound together. Music Review: Philharmonic Opens Russian Stravinskyat Avery Fisher Hall 2010-04-22T22:10:00Z

If the symphony showed Prokofiev at his weightiest, Shostakovich’s second piano concerto shows this composer at his most elfin and loving. Review | Forget greatness, enjoy the music: NSO revels in lyrical excess 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Each song also sounds different from the rest, a movement in a bigger symphony about hurt and misunderstandings. Natalie Prass Escapes Nashville 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

His compositions included a symphony inspired by the writings of Henry David Thoreau, an opera set in Colonial America and a piano concerto incorporating bird calls. John LaMontaine, Composer, Dies at 93 2013-05-15T02:27:49Z

Sparked by last year’s Roger Daltrey solo run performing “Tommy” in its entirety with orchestral backing, The Who embarked on its Moving On! tour this spring, joined at each stop by a local symphony. Top 10 Seattle music events for fall 2019, from Lana Del Rey to The Who 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

Wagner’s “Siegfried Idyll” and Haydn’s last symphony complete a weighty program under the conductor Harry Bicket. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Jan. 9-15 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

This summer, coinciding with the end of her tenure with the orchestra, she completed her live recorded cycle of Anton Bruckner’s symphonies with this compact version of the Ninth. CD reviews: Trifonov channels Rachmaninoff, Young’s Bruckner 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Langrée, a balletic conductor who shapes the music with lithe, expansive gestures, led all three symphonies from memory. Music Review: Louis Langrée Leads Mostly Mozart Festival’s Grand Finale 2013-08-25T19:36:27Z

But his sinewy account made an irrefutable case that the composer's revisions enhanced rather than obscured the symphony. Northern Sinfonia/Zehetmair – review 2013-06-12T16:57:53Z

Seattle Symphony fans vividly remember the 2015 Sibelius Festival, when principal guest conductor Thomas Dausgaard conducted all seven Sibelius symphonies with the kind of audience response you usually see in championship sports events. Thomas Dausgaard leads Seattle Symphony in another excellent Sibelius program with ‘Kullervo’ 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Federer “is a classical musician whose symphonies have the power to enrapture us,” writes an admirer on the fan site Federerism. Perspective | Why Roger Federer is the most graceful athlete of our time 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

"Maestro Morlot," she said, recalling how at last year's opening concert, he stepped off the podium, picked up a violin and took a seat in the symphony's third row. A patriotic gala and a well-placed Fran's fan 2012-09-18T02:02:04Z

But you know, restaurants are very noisy places and Stars was a full Berlin symphony orchestra. Remembering Anthony Bourdain: The chefs and writers he knew and inspired reflect 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

When she hears those opening notes she gets very still and focused as if she is about to conduct a symphony orchestra or turn into the Hulk. Disney’s Animated Film ‘Frozen’ Has Some Children Obsessed 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

Some works of art are like symphonies: methodically orchestrated and years in the making, with the potential to be labelled a masterpiece. Christian Marclay’s Sidewalk Animations 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

These qualities made for two very special performances of the familiar Eighth and Ninth symphonies. Budapest Festival Orchestra Has Fun at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

As police investigate a body washed up on shore, a symphony bassist hunts for a missing friend. New crime fiction by Penny, Woodrell and Mayor 2011-10-05T22:49:03Z

Scored for string instruments alone, sometimes played percussively, the 20-minute symphony shows heavy Turkish and Balkan influences, with bent tones, pungent harmonies and syncopated rhythms. Review: Fazil Say, Soloist, Composer and Even Conductor With Orpheus 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

Their next Barbican residency together will be devoted to Brahms, with performances of all the symphonies and the four concertos spread across four programmes. 2013 classical and opera preview: Lulu in Wales and Disney at the ENO 2012-12-30T20:22:01Z

The program’s second half featured a vibrantly characterized rendition of Holst’s “Planets,” like Tippett’s symphony a British work in which the span of human life is evoked, though here through astrological archetypes. Music Review: New Jersey Symphony Orchestra at Prudential Hall 2013-01-06T21:57:01Z

They draw your own gaze down, too, forcing you to consider the flower beds not just as careful symphonies of shape and color but as riotous crowds of individuals. Ebony G. Patterson Brings a Crowd to the New York Botanical Garden 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

More than 30 years later the American symphony orchestra subscription system is still pretty much ossified, if not dying. 2010-01-08T21:25:00Z

Like a well-performed symphony, the dynamics and contrasts are so important. Homeland season four review – back with renewed purpose, and a bang 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

Even theater was to be run on the nonprofit institutionalized symphony orchestra model, something never tried before in America. How the Music Center broke new ground for major arts institutions 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

Otherwise, Mr. Glass noted that he did not write his first symphony until he was 50 and has written 10 since then. ArtsBeat: Philip Glass, at Spoleto USA as Speaker and Spectator, Also Performs 2012-06-03T20:00:22Z

If a pensive slow movement from a Haydn symphony were to put a listener in a contemplative spiritual state, Haydn would be pleased, even if that was not his specific intention. White Light: Is It Driven by the Soul or by Sales? 2010-11-22T22:47:00Z

The Philharmonic doesn’t play these days with old-school brilliance or majesty, or with the feverish edge that Leonard Bernstein brought to Schumann’s symphonies with this orchestra in his classic recordings. Review: Gustavo Dudamel Could Be the New York Philharmonic’s Future 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

The musicians and the symphony association's board of trustees must ratify the agreement. Chicago Symphony, striking musicians reach deal 2012-09-25T02:04:11Z

And when real warmth is needed, as in the symphonies of Mahler or Florence Price, there’s the small but important lack of bloom and build, of resonance. Geffen and Gustavo: Mixed Boons for the New York Philharmonic 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z

I was singing with opera singers and there was a 60-piece orchestra, the St. Louis symphony orchestra. Amy Irving on her new film "Confetti," stage fright and the big role she almost turned down 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

The orchestra will perform the Mahler 2nd symphony in subscription concerts Sept. 22-27. Hearts and Renewal: Classical Concert Picks for 9/11 2011-09-09T21:00:00Z

Hometown stars on the roster include the National Symphony Orchestra performing works by Tchaikovsky and two of Mahler’s symphonies. ArtsBeat: A Wide-Ranging Season at Kennedy Center 2014-03-04T16:04:28Z

Gradually, like a symphony of bodies, dancers from the Philadelphia group fill in the screen with their own renditions of “Chair.” David Gordon Digs Into His Archives for a Dance That Matters 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

The occasion was the second of Mr. Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin’s sweeping survey of Bruckner’s nine symphonies at Carnegie Hall. The Best Classical Music Performances of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

So, absolutely last minute, we made sure that in this season we would expand on this Nielsen frenzy by performing another great symphony of his, the often ecstatic “ Espansiva,” No 3. Sibelius rocks, and other reasons a Danish conductor keeps coming to Seattle 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z

“That is, words, like individual notes in music, when put together, form a new meaning, and sometimes an entire symphony.” John Ashbery, Prize-Winning Poet, Is Dead at 90 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

“It’s like music in a symphony; you can’t play fortissimo all of the time,” he added. The Uffizi Gallery Gathers Some Heavy Hitters in a New Room 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Mayer, who grew up outside Washington, was exposed to classical music in the way many suburban children are, with visits to the local symphony and enrollment in the school chorus. ‘Rigoletto,’ in Rat Pack-Style, at the Met 2013-01-23T13:00:00Z

The new season also brings the next phase of the orchestra’s plan to perform Carl Nielsen’s six symphonies and three concertos and record them for the Dacapo label. New York Philharmonic Announces Next Season?s Schedule 2012-02-22T17:04:47Z

The epic Siberian Breaks crams half a dozen genres into an absorbing pocket symphony. MGMT: Congratulations 2010-04-08T22:30:00Z

Here, these players’ account of Barry’s “The Eternal Recurrence” vibrates with the same joyous commitment to detail as in the symphonies. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

“Now he was seeking a new path,” Mr. Downes says of the Beethoven of the Ninth as distinct from the composer of the eight earlier symphonies. Tanglewood’s Archival Magic Still Casts a Spell 2012-06-28T15:03:28Z

This symphony, the longest yet written and the first to include an elaborate choral finale, presented unprecedented technical challenges. Books of The Times: Harvey Sachs?s ?Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824? 2010-06-17T21:09:00Z

This is a symphony, after all, that begs for overwhelming bigness. Beethoven, politics and a Ninth Symphony for all 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

A deconsecrated and disused church on the edge of Manchester city centre has been transformed into a new concert and rehearsal venue for one of Britain's oldest symphony orchestras. In pictures: Halle's new church home 2013-06-13T04:57:10Z

Performing the nine symphonies in chronological order provides a unique access to an incredibly adventurous mind, and to an organic sense of development. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

The discovery of Beethoven's symphonies six years later, coming shortly after that of Shakespeare, turned his creative world upside down. Forgotten Berlioz: Rom?o et Juliette 2012-02-09T23:00:02Z

The clock turned back to the 1930s with the eager, impassioned first symphony by Samuel Barber, in a performance as vivid as any you’re likely to encounter. Desperately seeking relevance, orchestras grapple with existential questions 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

Even so, playing six Mahler symphonies in five programs over eight days would test even orchestras that make a specialty of these still-daunting works. Music Review: Finding the Right Pace (and Support Crew) for a Marathon 2010-10-22T22:44:00Z

The said on Monday that Mr. Levine, who is music director of both the Met and the symphony, will cut back on opera performances in the spring. ArtsBeat: James Levine to Cut Back On Met Spring Performances 2011-03-21T17:40:43Z

It will appear online and as an exhibition in the windows of the symphony building. Newark Artists, Thriving Amid Crisis and Catharsis 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

But Mr. McGrath took the news graciously, expressing gratitude for 47 years of “working with phenomenal people” and for a whole career beyond “Sesame Street” of doing family concerts with major symphony orchestras. Bob McGrath, Longtime ‘Sesame Street’ Star, Dies at 90 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z

"But the word 'symphony' gives the public a better idea." Seattle Wind Symphony to perform Sousa, Bernstein and Nirvana tribute on May 6 2012-05-03T20:20:11Z

But it is in Act II that Balanchine demonstrates the ideal of Romantic love: two anonymous dancers at the wedding divertissement dance to Mendelssohn’s string symphony No. 9. Love Two Ways: Ashton and Balanchine on Romance 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

Among the more intriguing repertory items are Sibelius' epic "Kullervo" symphony, Rachmaninov's "Spring" cantata, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 and Billy Childs' Violin Concerto, a memorial to Iraq war victims. Summertime, and there's music for everyone in Grant Park 2011-03-02T22:26:00Z

It's an elegiac movement recorded by a symphony orchestra that features desolate violins swelling around a barely there synthesizer pulse. Daft Punk's unlikely journey into the 'Tron: Legacy' universe 2010-12-26T06:00:00Z

Both of these symphonies constitute yet more examples of Rouse’s supremacy among living American composers in terms of melodic invention and calculated use of the orchestra. CD reviews: A modern symphonic master 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Burns reflected on “all the symphonies that weren’t written, all the great literature that wasn’t written, all the children that weren’t raised right with love.” Ken Burns Explores America’s Inaction During the Holocaust 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

Now, at the age of 30, the Israeli wunderkind is poised to succeed his mentor at the helm of the acclaimed symphony. Tough act to follow: Young maestro leads Israel Philharmonic 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

The letter also cautioned that the cannabis-themed events could endanger the symphony’s contract with the city for the use of Boettcher Concert Hall. Proposing Selections for Colorado’s Cannabis Concerts 2014-05-09T21:43:05Z

I heard a similar touch in a Mahler Four that Mäkelä conducted last year in Munich; there, the cool performance didn’t deliver on the symphony’s heavenly climax. Review: The Rising Star of Conducting Arrives in New York 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z

At first glance, the program that the Philadelphia Orchestra presented at Carnegie Hall on Friday appeared perfectly conservative: a Brahms symphony, a Haydn concerto, the suite from “Der Rosenkavalier” by Richard Strauss. Yannick Nézet-Séguin Leads the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

You'll be in good historical company, too: the symphony was dedicated to Serge Koussevitzky, who premiered it in December 1929 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Why Arnold Bax will make it a Prom night to remember 2011-08-17T09:26:51Z

Corigliano’s symphony may not have been politically or aesthetically revolutionary, but it showed how a more incremental approach can work alongside an activist vanguard. Revisiting a Symphonic AIDS Memorial 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

As early as the 1890s, in the first movement of his huge choral symphony, “Kullervo,” the strings echo a phrase in the brasses, first at full volume. Hearing the Mystery in Sibelius 2011-08-15T21:18:14Z

Ross says of this bizarre irruption of the classical verities into the most extreme of contemporary contingencies: "the symphony became a tactical strike against German morale." The rest is power: classical music in the age of the dictatorship 2013-05-10T15:01:02Z

Like all of Bruckner’s symphonies, this one emerges in long spans. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Memorial Day Concert 2013-05-28T20:23:42Z

The young musicians, in jeans and fuzzy sweaters, had just finished rehearsing a Prokofiev symphony in an empty concert hall. Where Israelis, Palestinians and Iranians Must Listen to One Another 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z

The symphony orchestra is often touted as a model of democracy and common purpose. Watch 5 Moments When Classical Music Met Politics 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

More than that, the symphony, played before intermission, evokes the moods and characters of those operas, especially “Don Giovanni.” Review: New York Philharmonic Gives Mozart His Due 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

The symphony is the resident orchestra of the Barbican, which Mr. Rattle criticized in an interview last month with the BBC. Simon Rattle to Return to His Roots, Taking Over the London Symphony 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

There’s also a symphony, composed of students and staff. Scalpel, Sponge, Magic Beans: When Doctors Moonlight as Actors 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

While Arron’s yearly schedule includes a handful of outings as a symphony soloist, more than 90 percent of it is “wonderfully full” with chamber activity. Cellist Arron: chamber music champion, Seattle chamber-fest fan 2013-06-19T23:07:26Z

It didn't come close to what we needed to do: construct an entire symphony from a handful of phrases. How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

Following Tradition With Three Solid Blows A major part of the job for any music director of the is to tend to its traditions as the oldest symphony orchestra in America. Music Review: Following Tradition With Three Solid Blows 2010-10-01T22:36:00Z

But even the most experienced listener may not be aware of the subtle and deep connection between a conductor’s symphony of movements and the music emanating from the players. Breaking Conductors? Down by Gesture and Body Part 2012-04-06T12:00:28Z

Taken together, the four symphonies could almost be read as individual movements of a gigantic whole, so natural and compelling was the flow. Critic’s Notebook: Spring for Music Festival at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-13T22:06:48Z

Last year, Base Hologram brought the adored opera singer Maria Callas back to life for string of performances backed by symphony orchestras. 'It's ghost slavery': the troubling world of pop holograms 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z

In its 2016-17 year, the symphony logged operating revenue of $31.7 million, up 13 percent from the year prior, according to its annual report. Seattle Symphony names Krishna Thiagarajan president and CEO 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

Here Cooke introduced the well-known term: “the vexatious ‘Bruckner problem’ — the confusion over the various versions which exist of most of his symphonies.” Still Searching For Bruckner?s True Intentions 2011-07-09T04:30:28Z

As expected, the high point came on Friday evening with Detroit’s audacious presentation of an “Ives Immersion”: all four of Charles Ives’s numbered symphonies in chronological order. Critic’s Notebook: Spring for Music Festival at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-13T22:06:48Z

Principally, it has led to an ambitious recording project of Sibelius’s complete symphonies, released this year on Decca. At 26, the Conductor Klaus Mäkelä’s Star Keeps Rising and Rising 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

But the symphony ended up being poignantly resonant for an entirely different reason. Review: The Czech Philharmonic Brings Tear-Streaked Consolation 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

But the Fifth also happens to Schubert at his most conventional, here mimicking what was already an old-fashioned "Classical" symphony in 1816. Review: Make this L.A. Chamber Orchestra guest conductor feel at home 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

Something like the Ninth Symphony, which is nearly an hour long, it demands a kind of Zen-like concentration by the players, the way some Bruckner symphonies do. Philip Glass and John Adams on a Bowie-Inspired New Symphony 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

The new production of Wagner’s “Lohengrin,” with the Birmingham symphony, will be directed by Hans Neuenfels, who is known for his radical productions. Young Conductor at the Forefront of His Field 2010-04-20T11:45:00Z

First he had to show me a video of these kids nailing passages in a Tchaikovsky symphony. Venezuela youth orchestra tour is canceled, pushing Dudamel into the center of a political storm 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

And for his next steps with new symphonies? Seattle Symphony conductor Ludovic Morlot to leave next year 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

"Fidelio" and the Ninth Symphony reach ecstatic heights espousing the overthrow of tyranny in the opera and promotion of collective brotherhood in the symphony. Classical music's soothing powers in troubled times can help open minds and inspire dialogue 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

To differentiate itself from the upcoming symphony cycle, the gala looked a little bit at Beethoven's neglected theatrical side. Diplomatic Dudamel leads a fervent Beethoven charge at Disney Hall 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

The effect, as their sounds unfurl together, is an eerily soothing symphony from outer space. What does outer space sound like? Hear NASA's satellite symphony at the Huntington 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

She nicknamed him “Culture Man,” as he seemed to have an endless supply of tickets to theater, opera, symphony. Second Chance for First Impression 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

That symphony’s premiere in 1954 on Austrian radio went so badly that he asked that the tapes be wiped. Has the Time Come for a Long-Ignored Korngold Symphony? 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

Bruckner, says music historian Ted Libbey, "renewed the symphony as an expression of transcendent emotion and a confession of personal faith." Violinist Isabelle Faust to appear with Seattle Symphony 2011-10-26T20:02:04Z

While this was not his first symphony, it was the first statement Dvorák was really proud of, and began his widespread fame as a symphonist. Czech conductor will lead SSO in Beethoven ‘jewel’ 2013-05-23T20:27:07Z

And now — 100 years to the month after the work’s premiere, 101 years after the composer’s death — here was Mahler’s grand farewell symphony. Music Review: Jacques Lacombe and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra 2012-06-10T20:10:00Z

To experience this baseball symphony in fresh ways I brought along some companions. The Art of Summer: Music of the Spheres (Whoosh! Thud! Crack!) 2011-07-20T15:27:07Z

Celebrated by many for their majesty and spirituality, Anton Bruckner’s symphonies are seen by others as unduly long, arcane and opaque. A Long Party of Concerts to Celebrate Anton Bruckner 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

Speaking of ends, that last line is another kind of test, the final chord, so to speak, of the symphony. What's the best way to test a novel before you read it? 2010-09-28T08:54:00Z

“Rautavaara once said to me, ‘It’s enough if the symphony includes the whole of myself.’” Einojuhani Rautavaara, Composer, Dies at 87; His Lush Music Found Wide Appeal 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

This is the world premiere of Adams’ sequel to his “Become Ocean,” which won Pulitzer and Grammy awards and was the talk of the symphony world back in 2013. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for March 2018 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

The Phil has the largest budget of any U.S. symphony and benefits from two landmark venues — Disney Hall and the Hollywood Bowl. Gustavo Dudamel and L.A. Philharmonic agree to contract extension 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

That their music is a symphony of ill-tempered threats shouldn’t be a surprise. Chicago Hip-Hop’s Raw Burst of Change 2012-10-07T04:49:05Z

He describes his work with them as deeply rewarding, and not only because it’s allowing him to explore new repertory, like Beethoven symphonies. The music man: Josh Bell at mid-career 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

What’s the point of writing a piece for a symphony orchestra if it’s never going to be played by one?” Whodunit Most Musical by a Musician Most Literary 2011-02-19T01:45:10Z

I don’t mean to sound down on Beethoven’s astonishing symphonies. Berlin Philharmonic’s Beethoven Marathon at Carnegie Prompts Some Head-Scratching 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

Mr. Tilson Thomas’s middle period with the San Francisco Symphony was dominated by Mahler, whose symphonies it took them the better part of a decade to release, to immense acclaim. After 25 Years, San Francisco’s Maverick Conductor Moves On 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

The symphony orchestra takes a particularly hard hit as “an archetypal ‘disciplinary institution,’ ” discipline in this scheme seeming to equate with oppression. ‘El Sistema: Orchestrating Venezuela’s Youth,’ by Geoffrey Baker 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

“Gustav Mahler said that a symphony has to include the whole world,” Mr. Kiilunen said. Einojuhani Rautavaara, Composer, Dies at 87; His Lush Music Found Wide Appeal 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

But does he stand out in the crowded marketplace of 18th-century symphonies, among the reigning works of Mozart and Haydn? William Herschel Is Famous for Science. What About His Music? 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z

Bruckner’s five-movement piece for orchestra, chorus and soloists is longer than most Te Deums but fleeting by the standards of a man known for his gargantuan symphonies. Music Review: Collegiate Chorale Sings Tippett and Bruckner at Carnegie 2012-02-05T22:40:45Z

In his opening remarks, Noseda described the works as “strange symphonies” — though, given their ongoing popularity, perhaps it is the defined parameters of the form that need adjusting. Review | Noseda returns to the NSO podium and, just in time, finds the narrative 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

The symphony wanted to be, but instrumental balances were vague. Mark Swed hits the road for a weekend of SoCal orchestra listening 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

Mahler. Mahler’s last three completed symphonies got profound performances by conductors who have shown astonishing growth since their early days conducting the L.A. The best classical music performances of 2016 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

And the listeners responded with a raucous ovation worthy of, say, a Tchaikovsky symphony. Review: The Philharmonic Revisits an Early Triumph of Its Director 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

The Philharmonic, for example, has already this season presented a Haydn symphony and a Brahms serenade — neither a rarity, but both rarely played by that orchestra. Review: Chamber Music Society Returns, Unchanged 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

She has recorded all of Mahler’s symphonies but one, which is coming soon, as is a book, “Tár on Tár,” that will surely be a best seller. ‘Tár’ Review: A Maestro Faces the Music 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

The first movement of Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony, enough to catch a whiff of the composer’s elation at walking in the countryside, was followed by the slow movement of Mendelssohn’s “Scottish” symphony. BSO at Strathmore skips the uncommon music in season preview 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

We would pop the hot dumplings into our mouths far too quickly, and after a symphony of huffs and puffs, they would settle into our bellies and warm us from the inside out. How 40,000 dumplings empowered solidarity for the Asian community 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

The structure is arranged hierarchically in three tiers — principals, demi-soloists, corps — and in four movements, with an entirely new team of dancers for each of the symphony’s four movements. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater Presents ‘A Month in the Country’ 2013-05-22T21:48:48Z

The music features jarring dissonances and a heavy yet agile orchestration that will be familiar to those who have heard Shostakovich’s operas and symphonies. New York Premiere for a Long-Suppressed Opera 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

These days, the work is almost never performed, and there are very few compositions by women in the repertory of opera companies and symphony orchestras. The Troubadour and the Lady 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

In my house, my father, who was an amateur musician, a choral director, he always got recordings of symphonies for me. ‘A very not normal life’: Gianandrea Noseda, the NSO’s next music director 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

The symphony’s brassy bursts had shine and authority, but the intensity didn’t quite extend through the quieter passages, which meander if focus wanes even a little. Music Review: Program by the Book: Orchestral Colors? Check. Solo Showcase? Check. 2011-03-27T23:30:19Z

Bernstein composed this unabashedly theatrical symphony during the early 1960s, when the threat of nuclear war seemed all too real. The Best Classical Music Performances of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

Each projected an uncompromising attitude, even if Mr. Boulez compromised as a music director in London and New York, and Mr. Harnoncourt in his work with traditional symphony orchestras. Boulez and Harnoncourt, So Different, Yet More Alike Than They Realized 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

Yet there’s also a video of Bernstein conducting a movement of a Haydn symphony while standing, his arms folded, using his eyebrows and flicking motions of his eyes. Perspective | What does a conductor do, anyway? A music critic lays it out. 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

By 1968, he began his professional life conducting opera and, later, symphonies. At SSO, Jesús López-Cobos to lead Spanish-influenced program 2012-05-31T20:19:05Z

With extended, stratospheric passages in the violins, this symphony is a punishingly difficult work, but you’d never have known it from the strings’ command. Review: The New York Philharmonic Highlights Nordic Works 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z

Instead, there was little color, mostly a black and white symphony of hazy, floating fabric punctuated by polka dots and mosaics of graphic patterns, like interlocking squares. Fashion Review: Then Comes the 4th Dimension 2012-09-30T17:54:41Z

Bach performed in coffeehouses, and Mozart was famously thrilled when the audience burst into applause in the middle of his “Paris” symphony. Seattle Symphony is up for 3 Grammys. Here’s a beginners guide to enjoying the Symphony. 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

And if the hum of chattering provides the unbroken timeline and undulant ripple of this baseball symphony, the voices that break through from all around are like striking, if fleeting, solo instruments. The Art of Summer: Music of the Spheres (Whoosh! Thud! Crack!) 2011-07-20T15:27:07Z

The symphony's musicians have been working without a contract since February 15, five days after the ensemble received its 15th Grammy Award for best orchestral performance. Third concert canceled as San Francisco Symphony strike continues 2013-03-16T20:08:38Z

It is here that Shostakovich began to find a less overtly reckless voice after the potentially lethal turmoil surrounding the previous two symphonies. LSO/Elder 2010-06-14T21:31:00Z

A few hours later, TV audiences will have an opportunity to hear some of that symphony played during the climax of this acclaimed drama. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The Bronx, USA’ and ‘Baroness von Sketch Show’ 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

No operas or symphonies here: One of the two world premieres was an 11-minute piece for dueling wind quintets. Tanglewood Holds Its 50th Celebration of Contemporary Music 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

What followed was a symphony of celebrity confessions and rebuffs. Why do we even care which celebrities bathe? An investigation 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

The ostensible draw of the program — getting to hear a full, live symphony orchestra accompany a film — was a little nebulous. The National Symphony Orchestra performs ‘Fantasia’ at Wolf Trap

Programs began to resemble the standard format we know today with an overture and a concerto separated by an intermission from the second half’s symphony. Bar and Bathroom Lines, Molto Adagio 2014-04-18T20:59:14Z

But Dawson’s lone symphony merits more attention than it has received. 8 Things to Do This Fourth of July Weekend 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

In the hallowed final three symphonies, Bruckner stares more deeply into the abyss. A Long Party of Concerts to Celebrate Anton Bruckner 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

And how often can you say that of a nondescript passageway in a symphony hall, anywhere? ArtsBeat: In Hall or Lobby, Toronto Symphony's Festival Offers Intriguing Sounds 2011-03-04T15:28:26Z

We would go to outdoor movies in Bryant Park, see the symphony in Central Park. I Quit New York 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

Both of Paine’s symphonies are as enjoyable as many of the late-Romantic symphonies heard more often. Review: Douglas W. Shadle’s ‘Orchestrating the Nation’ 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

In the first of two concerts, on Wednesday evening, he conducted the school’s symphony orchestra in a program featuring three pianists from its graduate program playing Mozart concertos. Philippe Entremont Conducts; Simone Dinnerstein Performs; Music by Ezequiel Vi?ao 2012-02-03T23:02:08Z

And not one of his frequently played symphonies — the First comes to the Philharmonic next month — but the second of his earlier, rarer pair of serenades. Review: Schumann at the Philharmonic. Robert, Too. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

Next, fans must select which sport or culture: college football, professional football, baseball, basketball, hockey, opera, ballet, symphony, theater — you name it. Season Tickets, for Love of Sport, Culture or Comfort 2012-10-16T22:30:00Z

While no one is ever hoping for distractions during Mahler, there was something heartwarming about the siren wailing down 62nd Street and tearing into the symphony’s majestic final minutes. Review: The Met Opera Reunites, With Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z

Just this week the Mariinsky recording label released a DVD of Mr. Gergiev and the orchestra in live recordings of the last three symphonies. Music Review: Mariinsky Orchestra Plays Tchaikovsky at Carnegie - Review 2011-10-11T20:45:23Z

In the chestnut camp was Brahms’s second symphony, a staple of the Romantic canon. Review | Romantic tropes for the 21st century: the Chicago Symphony on tour 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

Comprising 48 chunks of local rock, the 100kg instrument, which also boasts a raft of computer technology, is now a contender for a place in symphony orchestras. Evelyn Glennie's stone xylophone 2010-08-18T21:00:00Z

Is the symphony orchestra the most efficient and effective vehicle for early music training, especially for training that is supposed to produce social benefits? ‘El Sistema: Orchestrating Venezuela’s Youth,’ by Geoffrey Baker 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

Brabbins says there is an "incredible cumulative effect" to hearing the nine symphonies in chronological order, with nary a break for a Beethovenian breather. Move over Jack Bauer ... Brabbins gives Beethoven just 24 hours 2010-07-13T14:52:00Z

My earliest memories of Beethoven’s symphonies are as a teenager, listening to old LPs. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

It's important to realise that there is more to our orchestra strategy than the eight symphony orchestras. Arts council funding questions: the Q&A digested 2011-03-31T17:09:17Z

Robert looked back at us, holding up his left hand as if conducting a symphony. The Robert Mapplethorpe photo you haven't seen: The one he took of me 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

After a break for the pandemic, they restarted the tour this year, using a symphony and a choir to accent a nine-piece band that sometimes features five guitarists playing simultaneously. Review: The Eagles put on a bucket list kind of night at Climate Pledge Arena 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z

It hardly ever shows up on a concert program or recording unless it is part of a cycle of Mendelssohn's five symphonies, and the L.A. Generous renditions of Mendelssohn and Bach balance youth and experience 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

“Throw the symphony in and you’re living at this really cool intersection.” System of a Down's Serj Tankian goes classical with symphonic concerts in Northridge 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

Brahms's second symphony was perhaps the most blissfully untroubled piece he ever wrote. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Ticciati 2010-04-15T20:45:00Z

As you begin to perfect your “symphony,” you imagine taking on the creative mantle of Cardiff and Miller. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Furtwängler was filmed shaking Goebbels’s hand after having been maneuvered into reprising the symphony for the Führer’s birthday, one month later. A Conductor’s Impossible Legacy 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

His importance is obvious, but precisely because his output was so enormous, including 104 symphonies, 62 piano sonatas and 45 piano trios, we rarely hear more than a repetitive sliver of it. Review: Attacca Quartet Continues Its Haydn Project 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

Rattle conducts symphonies by Beethoven and Mahler in the first programme, while the second is almost a history of the tradition. This week's new live music 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z

Normally – see above – I'm a willing captive in a Mahler concert, but the idea of listening to two Mahler symphonies in a single evening strikes me as completely gross. My perfect Proms 2010-07-08T21:45:00Z

Concert review Every conductor these days seems to feel the need to measure himself against the challenge of Mahler’s symphonies. Mahler’s challenge triumphantly met at SSO | Classical review 2012-11-30T19:07:07Z

Hamlisch was principal pops conductor for symphony orchestras in Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Dallas, Pasadena, Seattle and San Diego. Composer Marvin Hamlisch Dies at 68 in Los Angeles 2012-08-07T13:47:48Z

In 1951 he received international acclaim with his Symphony No. 1, the first of his two symphonies. French composer Dutilleux dies at 97 2013-05-22T14:11:20Z

In catching the symphony’s kaleidoscopic inventiveness—thrashing, delicate, complex, pastoral, titanic, dancelike, joyful—Langrée, with a vast imaginative sympathy, delivered the composer’s essence. A Revelatory Performance by the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

The city symphony is in trouble -- and the size and cultural footprint of the city hardly matter. Can the symphony be saved? 2011-08-29T20:30:00Z

That may be true: the symphony contained appealing ideas and sounds, many seemingly on loan from Shostakovich. Music Review | American Symphony Orchestra: Loosening the Reins on Composers After Stalin 2010-03-01T05:50:00Z

The symphony is one of 20th century music's great question marks. Pianist Yundi adds some flair, but his Beethoven still lacks drama at Bowl 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

There is no doubt of the symphony’s nobility and weight, yet it has always left me a little cold. Cult Fame and Its Discontents 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

This is the debut of music director Ludovic Morlot with the symphony; the program will include Beethoven's "Consecration of the House" and Gulda's rip-roaring Concerto for Cello and Wind Orchestra, featuring soloist Joshua Roman. KING FM broadcasts SSO's big night 2011-09-12T22:25:01Z

Instead of a card, he’s making abstract artworks based on the German composer’s nine symphonies. Mo Willems brings a little silliness into the Kennedy Center’s storied halls 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

The performance concluded the orchestra’s four-concert survey of Beethoven’s nine symphonies that began last Wednesday night. Music Review: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2013-02-04T23:37:45Z

She listed the innovations the city has become known for, from Boeing to Starbucks, and said the symphony is part of the flow of creativity. Seattle Symphony and ‘Ocean’ play to adoring crowd at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-08T00:33:04Z

The campers form the sweet spot of the symphony audience. Music: Playing With the Orchestra in Baltimore 2012-07-13T16:19:48Z

All seven of the symphonies will be played over three weeks, as well as the Violin Concerto — in both its revised and rarely played original forms. Finally, a Lot of Classical Music and Opera to Hear This Season 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

His reading of the first and third symphonies have a nice drive and thrust to them, but don’t always do justice to the intricacy of the overall structure. Classical Playlist: Bruckner, Richard Reed Parry, Brahms and More 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

Dvorak wrote this beguiling symphony in just six weeks in 1875. Music Review: Riccardo Muti and Chicago Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2012-10-07T22:03:08Z

The sounds of clanging stainless-steel bowls were accompanied by cooking instructions and laughter in a symphony of languages and accents. | A Meeting of the United Nations of Gastronomy 2013-07-31T22:13:59Z

Brahms is getting special treatment too, with the Philharmonic performing his complete symphonies and concertos. New York Philharmonic Announces Next Season?s Schedule 2012-02-22T17:04:47Z

Conceived in 2019, long before Daft Punk’s breakup, it is a 90-minute instrumental score for traditional symphony orchestra, with nary an electronic sound in the mix. Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Reveals Himself: As a Composer 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z

Bramwell's no rocking vicar, though his songs are sermons of sorts: gritty but pretty symphonies about life on the slopes delivered with morality, humanity, drama and empathy. I Am Kloot – review 2012-11-11T16:21:50Z

A lean sound, vitality and clarity of texture distinguish these beautifully shaped performances of Schumann’s four symphonies, recorded live in Paris. Classical Critics Pick the Top Music Recordings of 2014 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

This spring, before a looming Schubert symphony cycle, the same thing happened. Venezuela youth orchestra tour is canceled, pushing Dudamel into the center of a political storm 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

This release in memory of Mr. Gielen, who died in March, pairs performances of the same symphony, with the same orchestra, that could not be more different. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2019 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

There are symphonies, concertos, operas and much chamber music. Liminar makes Mexico's Carrillo look like the next great rediscovery 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

Whatever form his piece ultimately takes, the composer won't label it a symphony; he's reserving that term for a hoped-for later work with an ensemble in his home country. Composer asked to put Orange County's essence to music 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

And it was a thrill for me when my home-state Milwaukee Symphony made its Carnegie debut in 1972, no matter that it gauchely billed itself “one of the Top 28” symphony orchestras in the country. Spring Performance: Music : Calling All Orchestras: Bring a Creative Program 2011-02-20T02:01:55Z

Accompanied by a whorl of pizzicato glints and percussive fretting from the symphony, Josefowicz sounded like a fragile insect cupped by a giant metallic mechanism. Review: At the symphony ? Leila Josefowicz, 'Mother Goose' and some pixie dust 2011-04-08T22:03:05Z

His recordings with the group, including the complete Beethoven symphonies, were widely praised. Kurt Masur Dies at 88; Conductor Transformed New York Philharmonic 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z

If the symphony ends with the decomposition of melody it begins with the flowing of creation. Mahler lives! Dudamel gives his most impressive performance yet with L.A. Phil 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

Since Monteux’s landmark, there have been more performances and recordings, especially from Francophile conductors, but the symphony never recovered its omnipresence. What Happened to One of Classical Music’s Most Popular Pieces? 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

Known for his versatility, Mr. Lees wrote for symphony orchestra, solo instruments, voice and chamber ensembles. Benjamin Lees, Versatile Composer, Dies at 86 2010-06-04T05:51:00Z

He then invited ASO pianist Sophie Cook to perform Fanny Mendelssohn’s “Notturno in G Minor” as a prelude to the symphony. Review | Ross emphasizes the new and the forgotten with Alexandria Symphony 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

And there’s more: in addition to Saturday’s repeat performance, Zhang and the Symphony will reprise the overture and the Beethoven symphony at 7 p.m. Hilary Hahn brings youthful listeners to their feet in Seattle 2013-04-26T19:27:18Z

In fact, he made himself essential with a crisp attention to sound and pulse in the Hearne, to eloquence and fun in the Mozart and to exuberance in Mendelssohn's symphony. L.A. Chamber Orchestra ending season on a sunny note 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

“Sand and Gravel Works,” for instance, is a whole symphony of interconnected inclines, angles, slopes and shadows. Z. Vanessa Helder: a Northwest artist rediscovered at Tacoma Art Museum 2013-09-08T14:16:08Z

Not caring much for the strictures of the symphony orchestra, Richter set off on a more unconventional career path, composing for and playing in galleries and alternative spaces. Composer Max Richter's project designed to lull listeners to 'Sleep' 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

Combining seriousness and youthful abandon, Mr. Tao grappled with Bruckner’s symphony in his restless piece. The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

Saturday is an all-Mahler affair, with the adagio from that composer’s last symphony, and the whole of his first. 10 Things to Do in NYC Now 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

New works premiere every week, from brief curtain-raisers to lengthy symphonies and operas. Best Classical Music of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

And the whimsical show about the inner workings of a fictional New York symphony bested "Veep" and "Orange Is the New Black" in the top television category. 'Mozart in the Jungle' cast, Gael Garcia Bernal celebrate Golden Globe wins backstage 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

He wrote nine symphonies, some deemed wild for their innovations, and did not receive broad appreciation until late in his life. Why Seattle Symphony’s next program has just one piece 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z

The timpani played by Nicholas Stoup in both the Mozart overture and Beethoven's symphony were small period instruments that made a stinging whip-crack of a sound rather than the boom of the bigger modern instruments. L.A. Phil's Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla lights a fire at Disney Hall 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

Eccentric British composers certainly deserve their place in the Proms pantheon, but Andrew was never going to have the last word in his admirably diplomatic review of Brian's gargantuan first symphony. The Proms 2011: week one in review 2011-07-27T16:01:18Z

You would think that a Mozart symphony should be heard as an entity, a single composition in four parts. Review: Mozart, a Little Bit Symphony, a Little Bit Opera 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

A Symphony for Detroit Friday brings the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s premiere of “Symphony in D,” Tod Machover’s latest city symphony. Classical Music This Week: Stops in Detroit, New Jersey and Berlin 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Like a Bruckner symphony, the work is monumental, mesmerizing, cumulative in its impact and mostly lacking in air, light and sex. Review | Seeing Jasper Johns: Blockbuster exhibition reveals a brilliant but bleak legacy 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

The programming did not push the players much in terms of stylistic variety, concluding with more romance-period music in Brahms’s second symphony. Young players bolstered by pros in last classical performance at Castleton 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

In the second movement, this call-response pattern was transformed into a high-intensity dramatic dialogue, with the symphony forces rumbling menacingly at the piano's apologetic attempts to placate its angry partner. Review: Varga, in elegant form, leads SSO in inspiring program 2010-04-16T18:02:00Z

“The forces for each piece are determined by what is called for by the music,” says Robin Fay Massie, a violinist who has played with the symphony since 2006. Perspective | The Soulful Symphony reinvents itself, elevating music’s American roots 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

It spooled out like pictures in a frieze rather than connecting elements of a symphony. Proms 24 & 25: BBCSSO: London Sinfonietta 2010-08-05T10:57:00Z

One passage resembled a conductor reigning in a cacophonous symphony. Dance Review: Parsons Dance Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary 2014-01-19T22:21:59Z

“There are films you’ve seen or haven’t seen. Nobody says, ‘Have you read that old play by Shakespeare?’ or ‘Have you heard that old symphony by Mozart?’ What’s the statute of limitations on movie spoilers? 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

He cut his teeth on the Chicago orchestral repertoire, learning the big, brassy symphonies of Mahler and Bruckner. Philip Smith, Master Trumpeter 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

Scattered through the weekend were some quirks — moments of uneasy intonation and tiny flaws, including a hiccup on the opening chord of the Bruckner symphony. The Vienna Philharmonic Tends the Classics With a Perfect Partner 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z

Gerard Schwarz, Seattle Symphony conductor laureate, presented Wright with the lifetime dedication to the arts award for her support of the symphony, Pacific Northwest Ballet and Seniors Making Art, among other groups. ACT artistic head Kurt Beattie, philanthropist Arlene Wright honored by ArtsFund 2012-05-07T19:27:04Z

In the 60s he produced acclaimed operas, symphonies, concertos and choral works. A life in music: Richard Rodney Bennett 2011-07-22T22:55:02Z

She returned a moment later to salute the symphony and conductor Lee Mills. Review: Nancy Wilson plays her first live show in two years with Seattle Symphony 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z

In addition to conducting the works prominently, Bernstein recorded three of Nielsen’s six symphonies, as well as the flute and clarinet concertos, with the New York Philharmonic. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Carl Nielsen Symphony 2012-06-15T21:52:06Z

The program repeats Saturday evening; Friday’s concert will feature a Mozart symphony in place of the Puts. Review | It’s my last review as The Post’s classical music critic. Here are my parting thoughts on the NSO. 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

So why not a symphony about ecology or race? If Blair absorbs me, Mahler's chord ousts him every time 2010-09-02T20:30:00Z

In the symphony, it was the contrasts that seemed heightened, from whispering pianissimos to stentorian fortissimos. LSO/Alsop ? review 2010-12-07T22:00:00Z

Cultural diplomacy is a significant activity for symphony orchestras. China Philharmonic’s Silk Road tour wends to Iran 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z

The series began with Adams' sonic travelogue: A Guide to Strange Places, paired with Bruckner's fifth symphony. Bruckner's Second Act 2011-07-16T14:05:00Z

Like the poem, the symphony is divided into six movements, each movement itself sub-divided, but many of the movements fade or blur into each other. On an alien shore 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z

The classically trained pianist, who loves Maroon 5 and Adele, recently finished his first symphony and a piano concerto, "Manhattan Intermezzo," that he'll debut at London's Royal Albert Hall on Oct. Neil Sedaka turns his calendar girl into dino pet 2012-05-15T21:41:12Z

“Philadelphia Voices” is the latest in a series of Machover symphonies inspired by cities. How a Philly Cheesesteak Goes From the Grill to Carnegie Hall 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

The program also includes Prokofiev’s “Summer Day Suite” and an early Mozart symphony. The Week Ahead: June 5 ? 11 2011-06-03T18:16:25Z

Mr. Rouse’s final symphony is often tonal, directly stated and taut, with an uncanny timelessness. Review: Christopher Rouse Leaves a Haunting Final Symphony 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

So, as Mr. Shadle asks, “Why do American orchestras play so many German symphonies?” Review: Douglas W. Shadle’s ‘Orchestrating the Nation’ 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

His "Video Games Live" concerts have reportedly sold more than 1 million tickets and been performed by symphonies in the U.S., Video game music comes to the orchestra concert hall 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

It is a symphony that was not expected to exist, let alone sound the astonishing way it does. Henryk Górecki's quirky, final major musical statement 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

This time, grunge pioneers Alice In Chains and hip-hop duo Blue Scholars served as inspirations for world-premiere compositions written for symphony orchestra. Blue Scholars, Alice in Chains inspire composers for 'Sonic Evolution' 2012-10-23T14:31:03Z

Proceeds are to help pay symphony musicians for community outreach and education efforts. Detroit Symphony resolves bank loans tied to venue 2012-05-31T06:31:05Z

And then there is Michael Bay, whose films are symphonies of excess and redundancy, taking place in a universe full of fire and metal and purged of nuance. | ?Transformers: Dark of the Moon': They?re at It Again, and Chicago Takes the Hit 2011-06-28T15:11:24Z

And within each is the expressive wealth we might expect from an entire symphony or opera. CD reviews: A Hungarian master stirs the senses and the mind 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

But it had the weight of history, showing the deep semantics of a symphony to be, through an urgency of every musical gesture, timeless. Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra serves up a sandwich of sad and sweet 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

The exposition repeats were observed in both the first and fourth movements of the symphony, and real bells were used in the "Witches' Sabbath," instead of the customary chimes. Muti and the CSO at Carnegie Hall: Feel the love 2011-04-17T20:27:00Z

And Feinstein's busy concert schedule — more than 150 gigs a year, ranging from solo performances to appearances with small combos to full-fledged "Pops" concerts with various symphonies — looks like a well-oiled enterprise. Who could ask for anything more? 'Michael Feinstein's American Songbook' on TV 2010-09-29T21:18:00Z

“How music must breathe, because singers have to breathe; and how music can express the psychology of character. In the normal repertoire, most symphony orchestras never get to either of those things.” A Critic’s First Orchestra Defines Britain’s Musical Soul 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

In sum, the most renowned symphony of all time. The Ultimate Beethoven Symphony Collection 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

Under Dudamel’s baton, the symphony’s final minutes, as the strings gradually dim to nothingness, were as sensible as I’ve ever heard them. Review: Gustavo Dudamel Leads His New York Philharmonic 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z

But it was two boxes containing the complete symphonies of Beethoven and Tchaikovsky that made him want to become a musician. Extraordinary Beethoven, and an Adventurous Streak 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

At times, the symphony seems uncertain, padded or pumped up. New York Youth Symphony Plays Copland’s Symphony No. 3 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

But to Bernstein, Nielsen, who died in 1931, was a craggy individualist, a composer who found his own path into the tumultuous 20th century, whose symphonies were exciting and significant works. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Carl Nielsen Symphony 2012-06-15T21:52:06Z

But the truly exotic note in the jungle symphony of Greg Pierce’s play “Slowgirl” is the adrenaline chatter of the 17-year-old American girl who finds herself in the alien environment of rural Costa Rica. Theater Review: ‘Slowgirl,’ by Greg Pierce, at the Claire Tow Theater 2012-06-19T02:00:10Z

Readers also ranked the cities for their music scenes—whether that means indie rockers in crowded bars, symphonies in state-of-the-art concert halls or renowned banjo bands that still play the local Elks Lodge. These Are America's Best Music Scenes 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

The plan right now is to do another live album, with a symphony, at the Beacon Theater in October. Chris Botti Plays His Trumpet, but No Holiday Music 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

He doesn’t just translate flamenco for a symphony orchestra; he also demands a place in the pit and onstage for flamenco singers, dancers and players. Review: ‘Ainadamar’ Turns Lorca Into Death-Haunted Opera 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z

Seattle Symphony undertakes an ambitious, two-year Sibelius Cycle, presenting Finnish composer Jean Sibelius’s seven symphonies and the original version of his Violin Concerto. 13 Seattle-area arts-and-culture events to look forward to in 2022 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

One of the great symphonies, spanning some 80 minutes, it is also one of the most delicate, ambiguous in emotion and a minefield of potential interpretative wrong turns. RCO/Haitink – review 2012-05-22T17:10:53Z

During a magnificent stretch at the conclusion of the Intermezzo, the line between soloist and symphony blurred, the music exploded into the realm of dazzling energy, and everyone in the hall was breathing as one. Review: A shimmering night of German romantic classics at the symphony 2010-05-14T16:54:00Z

Serkin having done his double magic, the post-intermission part of the program was a hefty slab of Brahms, his fourth and final symphony. Review: Trilling birds and a sedate waltz, expertly delivered by Serkin at the SSO 2011-02-11T23:25:06Z

“Winter Daydreams” is generally considered the sunniest, least troubled of Tchaikovsky’s symphonies. Music Review: Mariinsky Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-07T21:24:21Z

Bear produced and orchestrated the album herself, using her computer and an electronic keyboard to create the sound of a full symphony orchestra. TikTok to the Grammys: How a ‘Bridgerton’ Musical Beat Broadway 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z

All three of the programs feature an overture, a symphony and a concerto — two concertos on the first program on Friday and Saturday, with three NSO principals. Review | At the Forever Mozart mini-festival, beloved composer makes everyone look good 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z

Sarasota has about 60,000 residents and several professional theater companies, along with a professional opera, ballet, symphony and first-class art museums. For This Theater Leader, a Mission That Goes Beyond the Stage 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

This is the only symphony in the Manchester cycle not to be accompanied by a commissioned companion piece. Hall?/BBCPO/Elder 2010-05-05T22:00:00Z

Among the most beautiful of the composer's works, it's also widely regarded as among the most enigmatic, controversial and difficult of symphonies to perform. My perfect Proms 2010-07-08T21:45:00Z

An emphasis on youth has become pervasive in the world of major symphonies, with more orchestras hiring young, photogenic conductors. 'Mozart in the Jungle': What it gets right and wrong about classical music 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

The school's aims: to revive long-neglected musical traditions, to stock schools with qualified teachers and, perhaps one day, to form the country's first symphony orchestra. New school tries to revive music in Afghanistan 2010-05-15T18:46:00Z

From Tuesday through Sunday, Mr. Nelsons will lead that ensemble through all nine Beethoven symphonies, which it also just performed in the composer’s hometown at the Beethovenfest Bonn. Andris Nelsons Gets Ready to Lead the Boston Symphony 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

There's so much going on – the birth of the violin, the violin's big brothers, the orchestra, the piano, the concerto, the symphony, the modern 12-note-to-an-octave system of tuning. Howard Goodall's Story of Music; Being Human; Borgen – TV review 2013-02-04T07:00:06Z

Even beyond the Schumann, there was little vigor in a sleepy evening of Sibelius symphonies. Music Review: Jan Lisiecki Makes Debut With New York Philharmonic 2012-12-14T22:19:09Z

The closer was Stravinsky’s “Firebird Suite,” a work that the BSO plays more often than some of the Beethoven symphonies. A trial by fire for young BSO conductor at Strathmore 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

Mozart’s 38th symphony is known as the “Prague” Symphony because it had its premiere during the composer’s first visit to the city. A symphony for Los Angeles, just one otherworldly delight at L.A. Phil's Mozart and Pärt festival 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

Sibelius' final symphony — the remarkable No. 7 — is on the bill this week, plus Bartok's beloved "Concerto for Orchestra" and Britten's sobering "Violin Concerto No. 1." Your best arts and entertainment bets for the week ahead 2011-04-20T22:18:11Z

It is a rare orchestra anywhere that will not play at least one Beethoven symphony this season. L.A. Phil digs into early Beethoven, explores what is immortal 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

If the Unfinished brought to mind Schumann's famous phrase about the "heavenly length" of Schubert's final symphony, Richard Dubugnon's Battlefield Concerto, premiered in LA a year ago, rather overstayed its welcome. Prom 34: BBCSO/Bychkov – review 2012-08-09T16:06:12Z

His bête noire was the widespread notion that Beethoven symphonies and Bach cantatas could be divorced from their historical contexts. Richard Taruskin, Vigorously Polemical Musicologist, Dies at 77 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

A Brahms symphony movement can have an urgent narrative progression, but a Bruckner movement often seems a series of thoughts. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Memorial Day Concert 2013-05-28T20:23:42Z

What made revisions difficult was the complexity of Mr. Lowery’s design, which had the trappings of an outlaws-on-the-run story but was actually an intimate symphony of pictures, sounds and gestures. David Lowery Directs ‘Ain’t Them Bodies Saints’ 2013-08-09T19:06:44Z

A TV theme song, a star soloist and a heaven-storming symphony. A BSO crowd-pleaser 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

He was so in awe of Beethoven that it took him a dozen years to write his first symphony. ArtsBeat: The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics 2011-01-19T12:00:08Z

Zhang, on the other hand, treats the symphony more as a newsreel with the marching armies and the vistas of devastation. An L.A. Phil reminder that but a mile, and fate, separate Disney Hall from skid row 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

It opens with a similar crash, lending the symphony its nickname, the “Drumroll.” Rouse’s World Premiere and Batiashvili Plays Brahms 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

It’s unlikely that all musicians will reveal themselves as talented dancers or actors — or that audiences will demand choreography at every symphony concert. Concert Choreography: When Musicians Get Up and Move 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

The symphony represented the composer’s attempt, however forced, at rehabilitation. Music Review: A Visitor Arrives, Armed With a Sprawling Score 2011-02-11T22:52:48Z

Now she is set to take over the first professional symphony orchestra in the Nordic region, which between 1892 and 1923 premiered most symphonic works by Jean Sibelius, with the composer himself on the podium. Malkki at helm of Finnish orchestra cracks glass ceiling 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

If the symphony was satisfying, its partner was even more so. Krzysztof Urbanski Leads the Philharmonic in Dvorak 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

Garcia was studying chemistry at Boston College and played clarinet in the symphony band. Springsteen lends hand to search for Mass. student 2012-03-01T00:08:08Z

The union questions the symphony’s money management and argues that a pension is necessary to retain and attract quality musicians. Chicago Symphony musicians’ strike over wages, pension 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

What other animal comes to mind when you look at a symphony orchestra in full concert dress? 27 Ways to Keep Your Kids Culturally Engaged This Winter 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Listeners may find the extreme attention to detail and texture in the early symphonies fussy. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

In an interview, Mr. Herrera said that there had been threats to disrupt Mr. Repin’s performances and that the symphony was concerned that hosting a Russian artist could hurt its image and alienate donors. Too Close to Putin? Institutions Vet Artists, Uncomfortably. 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z

For a young millionaire not named Bruce Wayne, the art museum and symphony don’t matter. The Whore of Akron: More Than Just a LeBron James Takedown 2011-11-30T11:58:32Z

There's nothing normal about playing Tchaikovsky's fifth symphony with an orchestra containing 13 double basses and 33 woodwind. Teresa Carre?o Youth Orchestra of Venezuela; Benjamin Grosvenor, LSO; Promised End; Radamisto 2010-10-16T23:07:00Z

With each, Diamond directed, his expressive eyebrows scrunched in concentration or wagging in delight, his left hand etching symphonies in the spotlight. Concert review: Neil Diamond at United Center 2012-07-07T05:45:00Z

His approach is quixotic – he describes the symphonies as "like spaceships, forever orbiting and sending out signals", which may sound spaced-out, but his Mahler is a cosmic experience. Philharmonia/Maazel ? review 2011-04-13T16:21:18Z

A laptop, he pointed out, easily supersedes what the symphony can offer in terms of sonic power and flexibility. Andrew Norman on Loving ‘Star Wars’ and Pushing Musical Boundaries 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

Not only was the Ninth his last symphony: It was the great game-changer that pointed the way toward Mahler’s concept that the genre should be “like the world,” embracing all of experience. Gustavo Dudamel, one of world’s best-known conductors, to bring LA Phil to Seattle 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

It’s a sensible pairing, since Phish’s songs are both complex enough to benefit from orchestral arrangements and long enough to rival most symphonies. Your week in Seattle music: Katy Perry, Drake vs. Lil Wayne and more 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

Phil players are among the highest-paid symphony musicians in the world, paid to be not just the most important but also some of the best. L.A. Phil lives up to the hype with electrifying guest conductor David Robertson 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

The symphony seems a perfect partner not only for her sound but for the songs. Natalie Merchant: 'Sometimes I am so moved, I can't even sing' 2012-06-13T22:02:05Z

Bernstein also mused about whether he would end a section of the symphony by vaguely waving his arms and stopping when the orchestra ceased playing. Michael Tilson Thomas Looks Back on Bernstein and Mahler 2010-07-09T20:29:00Z

The teenager, who delights in the complex symphonies of Franz Schubert and overtures by Antonio Vivaldi, is the second of three siblings raised by two local schoolteachers. Teen violin star is Venezuela's youngest conductor 2012-06-26T16:39:59Z

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association President Jeff Alexander said orchestra officials are trying to prevent financial challenges the symphony could face in coming years. Chicago Symphony musicians’ strike over wages, pension 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

Schubert’s first few symphonies may be works in progress. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z

He has conducted some vibrant, insightful accounts of Rachmaninoff and Brahms symphonies and other works. The New York Philharmonic Returns, in the Midst of Transitions 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z

This was the first symphony to teach me that classical music can be every bit as theatrical as Broadway and Hollywood. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Classical Music 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

At the end of such a symphony, you don’t say it was beautiful. Building Back Better — One Community at a Time 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

The ballet, planned like a symphony, is in four movements and is about 50 minutes long. Dance Review: Paul McCartney?s ?Ocean?s Kingdom? - Review 2011-09-23T23:00:16Z

It was challenging to be a very specific sound in a big symphony. Oscar Isaac Learned to Love Blockbusters Again in ‘Moon Knight’ 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z

And although he is performing a number of new works this season, symphony subscribers who were put off by a vein of stern modernism in Mr. Levine’s programming probably have less to fear here. Andris Nelsons Gets Ready to Lead the Boston Symphony 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

He weaves a soundscape comprising little original music but an atonal symphony of police sirens, gunfire and bomb blasts. Miss Bala: Beauty and the Beasts in a Mexican Drug War 2012-01-19T19:15:02Z

Tackling a Bruckner symphony in the same way, though, seems a challenge of a different order, and in this case, I'm not sure the gains outweigh the definite drawbacks. Bruckner: Symphony No 2 ? review 2011-01-20T22:20:01Z

She will be the first female music director of the orchestra, which was founded in 1882 and describes itself as the first professional symphony orchestra founded in the Nordic countries. Finnish Conductor Will Be First Woman to Lead Helsinki Philharmonic 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

Miranda says, "Since the beginning of the great unfinished symphony that is our American experiment, time and time again immigrants get the job done." The creator of "Hamilton" says the musical is a needed reminder during a heated political season that "immigrants get the job done." 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

A 2016 study by the League of American Orchestras found that more than 90% of professional symphony orchestra music directors are male. Essential Arts & Culture: Ed Moses dies, a woman leads the L.A. Phil, architecture's award controversy 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

People may play in a symphony orchestra on Thursday, then a pop concert on Friday. The Pianist Vikingur Olafsson on Why Philip Glass Matters 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

The appearance had been in the works for a couple of months — though even within Seattle Symphony, few knew that it was happening, said symphony spokeswoman Shiva Shafii. WATCH: Steven Spielberg surprises the audience at Seattle Symphony concert with John Williams 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

One of Columbia’s artists was Mr. Szell, who in an early collaboration, Mr. Berg recalled, had treated him with the imperiousness for which globe-trotting symphony conductors were often famed. John Berg, Art Director Who Made Album Covers Sing, Dies at 83 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ichiyanagi remained in Japan and went on to compose symphonies, chamber works and vocal compositions, often making use of precipitous glissandos and prerecorded elements. Hearing Yoko Ono All Over Again 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

The symphony was left to unfold, one episode after another, with little forward impulse, few rhythmic charges or lyrical flights. Music Review: Japan Festival Continues, Despite Sadness and Anxiety 2011-03-22T21:21:28Z

One reason there aren’t more female conductors is likely that symphony orchestras are highly traditional entities. Conducting’s glass podium: Female music directors are still rare, but the Northwest has nurtured some 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Sports are doing all right with the canned sounds of roaring crowds; the Democratic National Convention in August was far more compelling as a remotely orchestrated symphony of voices. Perspective | Jimmy Kimmel can surely have fun with a virtual Emmys show, but will TV ever feel like a shared experience again? 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

Before the fatal duel with Burr, Hamilton refers to America as “you great unfinished symphony.” 'Hamilton' brings its tale of American idealism to L.A. at a moment when it's needed 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

“Word of Mouth” by Timo Andres is an exhilarating chamber symphony suffused with optimism but also seemingly filled with the clamor of conflicting ambitions and egos. Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

In 2010, during a concert presented as part of a Beethoven symphony cycle at Lincoln Center, he reset his ensemble differently for the Sixth and Ninth Symphonies, to illuminating effect. Ivan Fischer Returns to Mostly Mozart With ‘Nozze di Figaro’ 2013-08-09T18:45:43Z

The next time Wynton Marsalis writes a symphony for the New York Philharmonic, he might want to plan from the start to keep it well under an hour. Review: Wynton Marsalis’s Urban Symphony for the Philharmonic 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

The ensemble has built a reputation on nurturing new works on the scale of concertos and symphonies; 65 of those were led by Langrée during his directorship. Louis Langrée Wraps Up a Quietly Transformative Era of Conducting 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

What better way to honour the dark and brooding music of Ian Curtis than with a symphony composed by children? Joy Division inspire symphony written by schoolchildren 2010-05-19T11:23:00Z

Gilman, the Tribune critic, once accused the symphony of “weeping maudlin chromatic tears like an impotent Tristan.” What Happened to One of Classical Music’s Most Popular Pieces? 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

I also wish Sheldon had paid more attention to the actual music since, as Andrew Porter once wrote: "Shostakovich's symphonies are the public biography of a great musician in relation to Soviet art." Review | Theatre | A Model for Mankind | Cock Tavern, London | Michael Billington 2010-03-29T23:21:00Z

The Philharmonic’s short-lived attempt to merge with Carnegie Hall, in 2003, damaged the partnership, and some of Lincoln Center’s flashy earlier ideas for the Geffen Hall renovation were seen as unsuitable for a symphony orchestra. After Years of False Starts, Geffen Hall Is Being Rebuilt. Really. 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

The symphony offers some of Schuman’s most sophisticated, complex and arresting music. Music: William Schuman?s Legacy as Teacher and Composer 2010-03-31T21:13:00Z

Each will handle four of the nine Beethoven symphonies separately, then join for Symphony No. 9, bringing to bear a combined force of about 300 musicians. L.A. Phil lays out its 2015-16 season at Disney Hall 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

This week’s program features two symphonies: the seething First and the dramatic Fourth. Opera & Classical Music Listings for March 14-20 2014-03-13T22:51:05Z

Another series of symphony events restricted to the 21-and-up crowd is "Beethoven and Brews," which brings musicians to a trendy downtown hotel bar to play as local breweries offer tastings. Colorado Symphony links up with pot industry 2014-04-30T13:28:15Z

At 80 minutes long the symphony appears daunting, but when well prepared and patiently executed, there are few works of comparable dimension and emotional scope that present less of a challenge to the listener. Prom 27: BBCSSO/Runnicles – review 2012-08-05T13:28:28Z

The airborne cars pirouette prettily, bashing and smashing with all the technological expertise production money can buy; the symphony of body blows, gun pops and crunching metal sounds fine and convincing. Review: Dressed to Kill, ‘Atomic Blonde’ Also Shoots to Kill 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gilbert and the orchestra will record all the Nielsen symphonies and concertos for release on the Danish label Dacapo. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Carl Nielsen Symphony 2012-06-15T21:52:06Z

Saving the Andante for later, however, did leave the symphony sagging after about 45 minutes. Review: Absent 20 Years, a Conductor Rescues the Philharmonic 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

The usher, once again, does not recognize Rutter as his new boss, but violinist Joshua Bell — playing with the symphony — dedicates a short encore to her. One woman, three parties. A whirlwind welcome for new Kennedy Center president.

Built in the late 1930s, the auditorium was once the city’s main symphony, dance and recital hall but fell into disuse by the end of the 1960’s, when Gaillard Municipal Auditorium supplanted it. ArtsBeat: For Charleston and Spoleto, It's Clean Up, Paint Up, Fix Up Time Once Again 2012-06-04T20:55:12Z

Less than half an hour into the symphony the couple sheepishly snuck out. 2010-02-03T21:58:00Z

You’ve got the symphony as it’s composed, and then you have the changes from orchestra to orchestra, with slight adjustments making for enormous tremors in the eating experience. The Japanese Fried-Rice Omelette That Rewired My Brain 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

The strike, which began when the musicians failed to show up for a Wednesday rehearsal, forced the symphony to cancel two concerts earlier in the week. Third concert canceled as San Francisco Symphony strike continues 2013-03-16T20:08:38Z

Well, there are eight big symphonies still to go. Classical Playlist: Mahler and Killer Tuba Songs 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

It sounds like a symphony of demented slide-whistles, sirens and the world’s loudest theremins. Vietnam’s Empty Forests 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

He continued into the first movement of the Schubert without pause, carrying the previous work’s subtle momentum through the symphony’s flowing melodies and the soft syncopations of its not-quite-waltzing second subject. Review: The Unaffected Excellence of the Cleveland Orchestra 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

Yet the sparse textures Mahler employed for this manic outpouring of grief are genuinely haunting, like a spectral after-image of the scoring in his symphonies. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Ticciati 2010-04-15T20:45:00Z

Last week in Vail, Colo., Gilbert conducted five major symphonies, including the Mahler Seventh and Beethoven’s Ninth, as part of the New York Philharmonic’s annual summer residency in the mountain resort. In sunny Santa Barbara, the New York Philharmonic gives its conductor a cold farewell 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

But the symphony also has a pinch of new swagger, and a bluesy grit that recalls Bernstein’s “On the Waterfront” music. Music Review: Alan Gilbert Leads a Program of Haydn and Rouse 2013-06-21T20:22:22Z

As he repeatedly exalts his own importance, your admiration for his “little symphonies for kids,” as he calls his blasts of emotion-charged sound, may be tinged with revulsion. | 'The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector': A Documentary Portrait of a ?60?s Record Producer 2010-06-29T21:39:00Z

But the Shostakovich symphony presents psychological as well as musical challenges. Music Review: A Visitor Arrives, Armed With a Sprawling Score 2011-02-11T22:52:48Z

Rostropovich called Bach’s sixth suite, which concluded the program on Thursday, “a symphony for solo cello.” Istvan Vardai Plays Bach at the Park Avenue Armory 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

So it was a progressive, even inspiring statement for Philadelphia — which released a recording of Price’s First and Third symphonies last year — to close with the First. Review: Without a Note of Beethoven, an Orchestra Shines 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

Before conducting the ode, Mr. van Zweden said that Beethoven’s symphony is about “bringing the community together,” which is “what we did with you tonight.” Review: The Philharmonic Invites, and the Audience Packs the House 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

“We write symphonies,” he proudly proclaimed, as if to prove his point. Trump Is Wrong if He Thinks Symphonies Are Superior 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z

She talks about her childhood in terms of the symphony, an “awe-inspiring and inspirational Styx concert,” and her mother’s show tunes albums. Natalie Merchant sees right through the sexist music industry: “The patriarchy wants to dispose of women at a certain age” 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z

The same press-on approach marked his account of Schumann's fourth symphony at the end of the evening. Prom 37: BBC Philharmonic/Noseda 2010-08-15T11:58:00Z

There was no Mozart symphony performed in the whole of the 2011 season either. The Proms' neglect of Mozart means we are losing touch with his true genius 2012-07-19T21:00:04Z

He once declared that he would never be able write a symphony in the shadow of Beethoven’s legacy, and though he ultimately did so, it took him 14 years to complete his first one. Music Review: New York Philharmonic in Central Park 2012-07-17T23:05:18Z

Liszt’s piano transcriptions of the nine Beethoven symphonies are works of genius. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z

The symphony makes the same journey as Beethoven's, from angst to euphoria, but on a considerably larger scale and through a far more angst-ridden path. After five years of Gustavo Dudamel, what's next? 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

As the rappers turn chaos into cadence, let’s not forget who lays the foundation for the metamorphoses: Mr. Sullivan, whose voice becomes an inspirational symphony of percussive noises. ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ Review: Hip-Hop Saves the World 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

Mark Elder, the Hallé's music director since 2000, reminded us beforehand how revolutionary Haydn, "father of the symphony", was. The Firework-Maker's Daughter; Hallé Orchestra/Elder; Cheryomushki – review 2013-03-31T00:07:03Z

There are 19th-century solo organ “symphonies” and rollicking organ concertos by Francis Poulenc, Aaron Copland and Lou Harrison, to name a few of the most extraordinary. Freeing the pipe organ from the usual grind 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Under Chapter 7, the symphony would shut down, then sell all its remaining assets to pay creditors. 110-year-old Honolulu Symphony seeks to liquidate 2010-12-12T03:05:00Z

Each symphony takes a physical and psychic toll on performers — and listeners. Dudamel, L.A. Philharmonic power through Mahler's potent Sixth 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

Still, even Mozart’s sonatas and symphonies are full of operatic touches. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: The Vienna Four Part 2 2011-01-11T12:00:49Z

One implausible reason is because her symphonies and string quartets are so weird. Gloria Coates' great oddity on display at REDCAT 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

On a single hectic day in 1953, Bernstein, though suffering from a fever, recorded the Shapero symphony with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra, a studio ensemble of top freelance New York musicians. Harold Shapero, 93, American Neo-Classical Composer, Dies 2013-05-22T03:58:50Z

And the symphonies: The hall has programmed not one cycle, but two. This Is How to Do a Beethoven Symphony Cycle 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

“There's probably a little bit more to do in Austria than Switzerland--I would think the symphony is better--but we're splitting hairs between countries,” says Powers. World's 10 Best Places to Live 2010-05-26T04:01:00Z

He can shuttle between a Mahler symphony and a “Star Wars” soundtrack, between a John Adams premiere and a Super Bowl halftime show. Will Gustavo Dudamel Be New York’s New Bernstein? 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z

The subscription series begins the following night with the brilliant violinist Lisa Batiashvili will be the soloist in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, followed by a repeat performance of the Dvorak symphony. Classical Music Listings for Sept. 16-22 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

If, like me, you're a Liszt fan, then this year's Proms offer nothing better than the all-too rare opportunity to hear his two symphonies in close proximity. Top of the Proms 2011 2011-07-07T20:30:02Z

It provides a demonstration of what a fine Mahler interpreter he is, in what is arguably the most challenging and problematic of the symphonies in performance. Mahler: Symphony No 7 – review 2013-07-11T21:40:00Z

Throughout the Nielsen concertos and a galvanic account of the Tchaikovsky symphony, Mr. Gilbert was strikingly vigorous on the podium: not quite Bernstein-level hyperactivity, but far more active than usual for him. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Performs Carl Nielsen’s Works 2012-10-11T22:30:40Z

It's a very convincing early romantic symphony that's well worth a place in the repertoire, while the overture is striking enough to suggest that the whole of the opera would be well worth investigating. Dobrzyński: Overture to Monbar; Piano Concerto; Symphony No 2 – review 2013-07-11T16:58:46Z

Presented this way, the symphonies had surprises to offer those — like me — who were raised on more lush, slow, Romanticized performances and recordings. This Is How to Do a Beethoven Symphony Cycle 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

Besides which, the use of the minor key in any song or symphony is only one way to communicate sadness. Why are minor keys in music sad? 2010-06-29T12:03:00Z

Photograph: Maurice Foxall London's symphony orchestras are criticised for a lack of enthusiasm for contemporary music, and do sometimes give the impression that they only include new works in their programmes under sufferance. This week's new live music 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

Mahler's own idea of the gigantic first movement in the symphony connects with all this. Simon Rattle: Baton charge 2011-02-15T21:30:00Z

A symphony executive says Michael Tilson Thomas will conduct the July 9 opener and two other performances. Boston symphony conductor to miss summer concerts 2010-06-14T17:18:00Z

In this incisive, brilliant performance, the symphony seemed a purposeful entity, however shocking and excessive. Review: ‘Let Me Tell You’ Has Its New York Premiere 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

Actually, there are six movements to this symphony. Music Review: At the Philharmonic, an Uneven Blend of Jazz 2010-09-23T05:53:00Z

Like the symphony, however, it ended in sustained stillness. Review: The Unaffected Excellence of the Cleveland Orchestra 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Alex Healey for the Guardian Photograph: guardian.co.uk The Edinburgh festivals, an intense and exhilarating brew of operas and comedians, symphonies and street acrobats, is now underway. Edinburgh festivals funding: see what they get, before the cuts bite. Full data 2010-08-16T07:00:00Z

And as the symphony ends with a lot of loose ends, it was all by design. A Long-Lost Symphonic Love Story Is Told Again 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

With his insightful account of this symphony, though, he did almost the opposite. Review: The Philharmonic Reveals the Rhetoric of Rachmaninoff 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

We’re sometimes led to think that musical masterpieces of the past fit partly into molds: sonata form, symphony, concerto. Wachner, Washington Chorus give powerful performance of ungainly ‘Missa Solemnis’

His innovative, prolific output — 25 operas, 10 symphonies, some 30 film scores and numerous pieces of chamber music — places him comfortably in the mainstream. ‘Words Without Music’: A look inside Philip Glass’s creative genius 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

How many moments of climax can a single symphony have? Are Bruckner Symphonies Now the Proving Ground for Conductors? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Together, they made the best possible case for the works they performed, including a premiere and Prokofiev's sixth symphony. BBCSO/Oramo – review 2012-07-19T11:43:10Z

Separating himself from the avant-garde, he devoted himself to genres many of his colleagues regarded as outmoded: , song, the symphony. Hans Werner Henze, Romantic Composer, Dies at 86 2012-10-29T02:30:06Z

Dancers filled stages, symphonies reverberated in concert halls and international theater companies returned to American stages. Live Performance Is Back. But Audiences Have Been Slow to Return. 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z

Ms. Tindall, who inspired Ms. Hailey’s character, lives in Los Angeles and has had something of a colorful life outside the symphony hall. Musicians on How ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ Conducts Itself 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

His most famous composition, “Earth Requiem” for large chorus, symphony orchestra, solo quartet and children’s choir, was performed for the first time in 1997 at the National Cathedral in Washington. Gregg Smith, Choral Leader Who Elevated Standards, Dies at 84 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

With an orchestra whose players are drawn from major symphonies across the country, Mr. Runnicles conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 3, Bernstein’s “West Side Story” and much else. 15 Classical Music Festivals to See This Summer 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Andriessen has long been ambivalent about the symphony orchestra. The Dutch Composer Louis Andriessen at Carnegie Hall 2010-04-01T20:43:00Z

One of the best-known figures in British classical music, Davis worked with the symphony for more than half a century. LSO conductor Colin Davis dies at 85 2013-04-15T11:01:05Z

Indeed, where the symphony offers an elegy, the concerto is pulled constantly downward as if by gravity. Review: Carnegie Hall’s Season Opens With Two Faces of Cleveland 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

Russian officials at the end of World War II wanted a victory symphony. Russia's secret weapon? Valery Gergiev and the rapturous music of the Mariinsky Orchestra 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

Last week, the Los Angeles Philharmonic began a cycle of Schubert’s symphonies with the opening concert dedicated to the youths dying in protest marches in Dudamel’s native Venezuela. Dudamel gives Schubertian tragedy a surprising buoyancy 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

If a Beethoven symphony was one of the loudest things its original audience would have heard all year, a Sciarrino piece is often barely audible. Review: Skittering, Creeping Music That Had Me Seeing Things 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

While Barber’s Adagio can withstand the acoustical assault unleashed in the huge church, a Beethoven symphony is more likely to succumb to the echo. Barber?s Adagio Stands Up to Acoustic Retaliation 2011-05-31T14:00:05Z

Even the music suggested a deep respect for children—in some places, it consisted of little notes sprinkled here and there, like background thoughts; at other moments, it swelled into an intricate symphony. How Mr. Rogers Became Everyone’s Neighbor 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

But once he got that off his back, he wrote his next symphony during a few productive months. ArtsBeat: The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics 2011-01-19T12:00:08Z

Simon Rattle, outgoing music director of the Berlin Philharmonic, has been a Sibelius devotee for his entire career and has released a new recorded cycle of the symphonies. CD review: Rattle’s second Sibelius is opulent package of dour masterpieces 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

We played both symphonies at the Proms, and I wanted to show that you don’t have to be English to play this music well. Barenboim and Elgar: A Musical Love Story Continues 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Stucky perhaps achieved his goal of writing a graspable symphony too well. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Steven Stucky’s Symphony 2012-11-30T21:46:43Z

The goal is to create cultural cooperation and break down barriers, enabling audiences to learn more about traditional art — of the Lakota, and of a symphony orchestra. The Lakota Music Project finds common ground through collaboration 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

Around the same time, Olin Downes of The New York Times called the origin and inspiration of the symphony “a question for academic argument.” Let’s Make the Future That the ‘New World’ Symphony Predicted 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

That concert, and others featuring the Berlin Philharmonic playing a complete Schumann symphony cycle, music by Stravinsky and new work, were announced last month. Carnegie Hall Plans South Africa Festival in 2014-15 2014-01-29T16:31:50Z

If the symphony is known for anything, it is the two horn parts. When Dennis Prager conducts Santa Monica Symphony, there's no avoiding politics 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

These composers have a kind of godparental relationship to Beethoven’s symphonies. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

Martinu was a strikingly prolific composer who, like Brahms, turned late to symphonies. Czech guest conductor leads pianist Igor Levit in strong debut at NSO 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

With complex collages that mix photographs, torn paper, string and other materials, Young creates a stunning visual symphony with a surprising and unsettling emotional power. The New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2016 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

There was a "symphony of weapons, shelling" around the extended family's home in northern Gaza, where much of the action was concentrated. Gaza doctor writes book of hope despite death of three daughters 2010-08-15T16:53:00Z

Here, playing a simple, rural woman with few tools to retrieve her children, Zhao Wei crafts a symphony of pathos and desperate strength. The Venice-Toronto Express: Three Films at Two Festivals 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

I fell quickly to sleep, waking on occasion to a symphony of snores from my fellow hikers. | Switzerland: Hiking the Alps of Goethe and James Bond 2013-05-01T18:06:17Z

La Scala opera house announced last week that Daniel Barenboim would conduct Beethoven's Ninth symphony when the pope visits Milan on June 1. Muti to conduct Vivaldi, Verdi concert for Pope 2012-05-06T18:42:11Z

In a return to the Philharmonic this fall he is taking part in a survey of Brahms’s complete symphonies and concertos, which began on Nov. 7. Music Review: Kurt Masur and New York Philharmonic 2012-11-17T00:22:56Z

There were some messy moments in both symphonies; but how much was down to the unfamiliarity of working with each other, and how much to Gergiev's approach? Prom 26 World Orchestra for Peace/Gergiev 2010-08-06T11:01:00Z

The Northern Sinfonia's progress through Beethoven's symphonies more closely resembles a slalom than a cycle, with the works presented in no particular order, under a variety of conductors. Northern Sinfonia/Fischer – review 2013-03-18T17:49:30Z

He was less good, the thinking goes, at channeling his voice into symphonies, sonatas and chamber music forms. Classical Recordings: Schumann: Complete Works for Piano Trio 2011-08-27T04:00:27Z

In the last prepandemic season, he bought tickets for 105 live performances — symphony, opera and lots of theater. He Went to 105 Shows in One Season. Now He Watches TV. 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

While the symphony played Felix Mendelssohn’s incidental music for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” on stage, seven actors portrayed the more than 20 roles in a four-night engagement last weekend. Dogs get a sniff of the stage life with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s casting call

As she puts it, they create “a symphony for a broken orchestra.” Building Back Better — One Community at a Time 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

It doesn’t so much pull on heartstrings as play a full symphony on them, and it’s devastating. 'I completely lost it': the movie scenes that made our writers weep 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

There was a time, during darker days of the pandemic, when orchestral concerts departed from their usual formats — worn-down cookie cutters of a curtain-raiser, concerto and symphony — and turned into something more unpredictable, and open-minded. Review: The Philharmonic’s Artist in Residence Wears Two Hats 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z

The evening opened with Haydn’s last-ever symphony, number 104 in D Major, in a performance that had the lugubrious intensity that often marks Eschenbach’s rhetoric, an audible effort to say something important. A maverick soloist offers a classic new work 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Havergal Brian's first symphony, the Gothic, is 84 years old, has only ever been played complete five times, and has not been heard in London for 30 years. Top of the Proms 2011 2011-07-07T20:30:02Z

That this wasn’t hyperbole became clear when the full symphony was released on the in-house record label that the ensemble started during the pandemic. In Cleveland, Schubert Outsings Even the Mighty ‘Otello’ 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z

The hardware symphony is punctuated by the putt-putt of passing motorbikes and, amid the mayhem, a gong tuner searches for the right sound. Thailand’s ‘Gong Highway’ 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Video: 'Aunt Shae/Mean Colleen' by Seattle's Witch Gardens Local band Witch Gardens always presents itself fashionably, a rarity in Seattle where polar fleece and socks/sandals routinely show up in symphony audiences. Video: 'Aunt Shae/Mean Colleen' by Seattle's Witch Gardens 2012-05-21T21:24:06Z

But it takes only one dissonant instrument to mar the cohesion of a symphony. Brain On Fire: 'Blood and foam began to spurt out of my mouth' 2013-01-13T00:05:24Z

“We write symphonies,” President Trump proclaimed on July 6 during a speech in Warsaw. Trump Is Wrong if He Thinks Symphonies Are Superior 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z

This music, the sort of narrative of this symphony, is something which now, during this war, we feel differently. An American Leads the Odesa Philharmonic to Berlin 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

He’s the conductor of a symphony of thousands, maybe even millions. Lil Nas X, Clapback Champ 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

“But in the case of this symphony,” Muti went on, “I don’t understand.” What Happened to One of Classical Music’s Most Popular Pieces? 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

The intensity of this account lays bare Mahler's symphony as if in an X-ray, like TS Eliot's "patient etherised upon a table". Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra/Roger Norrington: Mahler, Symphony No 9 2010-06-12T23:07:00Z

But the finale's spiraling descent into despair, the expressive fulcrum of the symphony, amounted to very little. Sizzling debut by violinist Renaud Capucon lifts CSO concert out of the ordinary 2011-01-14T17:38:01Z

No, Mahler replied: “The symphony must be like the world. It must encompass everything.” Music Review: New York Philharmonic Continues an Exploration 2014-03-13T22:40:45Z

The festival has long presented opera, symphony and dance performances there, but it has always struck me as a glorified high school auditorium. ArtsBeat: For Charleston and Spoleto, It's Clean Up, Paint Up, Fix Up Time Once Again 2012-06-04T20:55:12Z

Note: “Enigma Variations” is the topic of the March 17 “Beyond the Score” educational/multimedia/musical program at the symphony; see the symphony website for details. A&E highlights: ‘Oz the Great and Powerful,’ Flogging Molly, Joyce Carol Oates 2013-03-07T20:22:37Z

The symphony is still the principal form of orchestral music. The Proms' neglect of Mozart means we are losing touch with his true genius 2012-07-19T21:00:04Z

"There will be a cathartic feeling in the room — both moved and sad," he said about the Mahler symphony. Hearts and Renewal: Classical Concert Picks for 9/11 2011-09-09T21:00:00Z

One was a commemoration of the centenary of Alexander Scriabin, a composer Mr. Muti has long championed, with two symphonies, the Third on Friday evening and the First on Sunday. Chicago Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and Beyond 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

The buzz in our head becomes a symphony, hunger a sculpture. My Rear Window 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

Isolated musicians, too, have pulled out their scores of his solo works — miracles of making symphonies out of single instruments. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

And to the Sydney Opera House to record a full symphony orchestra. TV review: Gary Barlow – On Her Majesty's Service; The Apprentice: The Final 2012-06-03T19:30:01Z

Instead, the symphony came across as a predecessor of “Rite of Spring.” Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia play larger than life on Southern California tour 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

My breaths begin to deepen as the symphony of sensations of rushing leaves me. The subway is a moving temple: Underground meditation on the A Train 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z

To create her solo symphonies, she travels across the country and abroad doing interviews, then edits the testimonials to a series of verbatim excerpts, and learns them. Anna Deavere Smith Contains Multitudes 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

He achieved international fame with his seventh symphony, “Angel of Light,” in 1994. Einojuhani Rautavaara, acclaimed Finnish composer, dies at 87 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

The film begins with a prologue in which Mr. Gitai, pictured in stills, is shown strolling alone on a beach to the strains of a Mahler symphony. 2010-01-13T00:41:00Z

These days, the musician spends most of his time conducting and performing with orchestras and symphonies. Nada Surf: Life After The One-Hit Wonder 2012-01-27T14:00:30Z

Yamada's rapport with the orchestra was also plain in Rachmaninov's second symphony, after the interval. BBCSO/Yamada ? review 2011-03-09T19:15:01Z

Just as Beethoven’s Nine elevated the symphony into what one contemporary called “the highest genre of instrumental music,” performing them all, together and intensively, has always held a special allure. Review: A Beethoven Cycle From Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

Though the long-limbed melody needs a deeper-pile string sound than the Bournemouth orchestra brought to the work, it was played with a great deal of finesse and the closing symphony was equally impressive. Bournemouth SO/Litton - review 2011-03-17T18:01:35Z

The symphony’s board, which had argued that maintaining a large orchestra had grown too costly, especially during the coronavirus pandemic, said it did not see a path forward. San Antonio Symphony to Dissolve Amid Labor Dispute 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

They are performing a series of Gustav Mahler's symphonies and giving a boost to the famed Venezuelan music teaching program known as "El Sistema." Dudamel and LA Philharmonic make waves in Caracas 2012-02-16T17:32:08Z

The CSO's other resident octogenarian, Bernard Haitink, concluded his tenure as principal conductor with a distinguished cycle of the nine Beethoven symphonies. From Muti to 'Macbeth,' a good year in classical music 2010-12-23T19:54:00Z

“I don’t plan on just throwing out the Beethoven symphonies, the Schumann symphonies or Mozart,” he added. Lincoln Center Names Conductor for Reimagined Mostly Mozart Orchestra 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z

By means of sudden hesitations and excited accelerations, hairpin silences and obsessional repetitions, he turns the teeming first movement of Schubert’s Sonata No. 15 in C Major into a kaleidoscopic symphony. What Paul Badura-Skoda Did for Classical Piano 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

It is interesting that Gabrieli used the word “symphony” to describe pieces that are back-and-forth dialogues between groups of brass instruments. Music Review: Evolution, and a Definitive Endpoint 2011-05-15T21:30:31Z

He asked the musicians to play a section of the symphony without the cellos and basses, then with them. Dennis Prager draws classical newbies, and a musicians' boycott, at Disney Hall concert 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

In the natural world’s symphony orchestra, woodpeckers are the percussionists. The percussive appeal of the woodpecker 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

Imagine a Venn diagram of silent film buffs, symphony aficionados and fans of the Police. Stewart Copeland's 'Ben-Hur' thunder rolls into Northridge 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

The American sound artist Adrian Rew captured the euphoric, psychedelic, ping-ponging din of three Midwest casinos on “Slot Machine Music,” presenting the familiar plunk and buzz as an ecstatic noise symphony. Need More Nature? Listen to 12 Essential Field Recordings 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

Dvorak’s symphony, which premiered at the Philharmonic in 1893, is to be the linchpin of this curious project. Review: A Safe Start to Alan Gilbert’s Final Season With the Philharmonic 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

The human voice is a symphony, Arthur Lessac said, if only one knows what to listen for. Arthur Lessac, Holistic Vocal Coach, Dies at 101 2011-04-18T06:00:03Z

Those quibbles aside, the Prokofiev symphony is a playful musical marker for each of the characters and a portentous warning of things to come. ‘Fargo’ Season 3, Episode 4: A Wolf in Cheap Clothing 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

The timpanist, whose role in the symphony is unusually prominent, sat in the front row. Ivan Fischer Returns to Mostly Mozart With ‘Nozze di Figaro’ 2013-08-09T18:45:43Z

It announced Thursday that its start-up, Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings, would issue its first audio release on May 23: a boxed set of Simon Rattle leading the orchestra in Schumann’s symphonies. ArtsBeat: Berlin Philharmonic Starts Its Own Record Label 2014-04-24T15:20:57Z

With a body of strings that's about half the size a symphony orchestra would employ for these works, criticisms of Schumann's congested scoring are banished at a stroke. Northern Sinfonia/Zehetmair – review 2012-10-01T17:18:24Z

“Bruckner starts as an architect in the way each symphony is built,” Mr. Barenboim said. A Long Party of Concerts to Celebrate Anton Bruckner 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

In both the Second and Third symphonies he enforced a sense of Old World grandeur without lapsing into staid Old World stodginess. Dohnanyi, Ax and the CSO produce Brahmsian splendor at Ravinia concerts 2011-07-17T05:00:00Z

With emotions and theatricality and a Beethoven symphony — well, just some of it. Dance: Meg Stuart Choreographs ?Blessed? at New York Live Arts 2012-01-06T20:40:21Z

The symphony proves especially fertile ground for him. 'Before Seattle Rocked': music history as social history 2011-10-27T20:10:05Z

Speakers are hidden in the undergrowth and are linked to computers that perform a symphony composed of sounds linked to the plants and wildlife and changes according to the weather and time of day. Listening to the sounds of the woods 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

Along the way, there are insights into the music he loves and loathes, especially the operas of Janacek and Wagner, aspects of Mahler's symphonies, and Brahms's and Britten's music. Composer Thomas Adès: 'Wagner is a fungus' 2012-09-28T21:48:01Z

The orchestra premiered Beethoven’s “Emperor Concerto” and presented the first cycle of all nine symphonies, during his lifetime. Gewandhaus Orchestra does German canon justice at Kennedy Center

I came away from the first and final Shift concerts more worried about the future of the core mission of a symphony orchestra than I was before. Review | Shift festival illustrates a clutch shortfall in today’s symphony culture 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

All together, though, the casts constitute a symphony of magical absurdity, demonstrating both the elasticity and the uselessness of our human faculty for picking out objects and naming them — in this case in block capitals. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

Our angels must be summoned because we possess inner devils, and the transformations to higher planes in the symphony are not always without violence. A symphony for Los Angeles, just one otherworldly delight at L.A. Phil's Mozart and Pärt festival 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

Jet-lagged but unfailingly charming, incoming Seattle Symphony maestro Ludovic Morlot conducted Thursday's daylong series of media interviews — television, radio, print, Internet — with all the grace of a Mozart symphony. Morlot, incoming Seattle Symphony maestro, is 'ready to build something' 2010-07-09T01:10:00Z

He pronounced it “the greatest farewell symphony ever written by anybody.” Henry-Louis de La Grange, Mahler Authority, Is Dead at 92 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

A gifted artist, he had composed 13 symphonies by the age of 11, and his recordings of Joseph Haydn's piano sonatas are considered definitive. Composer John McCabe dies aged 75 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

Let this week’s Los Angeles Philharmonic program of Sibelius’ last two symphonies cogently conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen serve as Exhibit A. Making Sibelius modern with Esa-Pekka Salonen 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

There’s a traveling symphony, but then also there’s that incredible moment in episode seven where the Frank character breaks into a rap song. Finding Joy Through Art at the End of the World in ‘Station Eleven’ 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

Trigger this mode on, and the camera angles are more cinematic, the explosions fill the screen and symphonies signal your epic triumph for the 10 seconds before another dogfight begins. Game On: 'Forza Motorsport 4' revs up its game 2011-10-18T19:35:04Z

That's pretty much where it's at – though there is also a symphony orchestra, an opera company, and a big summer rock festival that attracts bands such as Metallica and Iron Maiden. Could Dundee be the new Bilbao? 2010-10-03T19:00:00Z

“It was like hearing a Beethoven symphony,” he recalls. Tour the Top Floor of Pierre Bergé's Paris Apartment 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

But most impressive was the Brahms symphony, not a piece easily thrown together by a pickup orchestra. Review: A Ukrainian Orchestra Speaks With Quiet Intensity 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z

It’s opera, museums, restaurants, uptown, downtown, jazz, Broadway, symphony, gospel, Central Park, baseball. 2009-12-21T05:00:00Z

That it is called a symphony seemed no big deal. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Steven Stucky’s Symphony 2012-11-30T21:46:43Z

Younger and less famous, but with the same fearlessness and fizz, the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra are in London at the end of a European tour, performing Beethoven and Prokofiev's fifth symphonies in two concerts. Teresa Carre?o Youth Orchestra of Venezuela ? review 2010-10-13T08:12:00Z

He also composed his first piece for symphony orchestra, “Debut: 5/21/72,” on a commission from Zubin Mehta and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Gerald Wilson, bandleader, composer, dies

Mr. Fischer began Rachmaninoff’s symphony with a scooping arm movement that brought forth the first brooding theme in the basses. Music Review: Budapest Festival Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-01-22T23:20:20Z

Mrs. Holloman had further recitals in New York and was a featured soloist with symphony orchestras before winning a Rockefeller grant in 1961 that enabled her to study in London and Berlin. Charlotte Holloman, concert singer and voice teacher, dies at 93 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

Looking at the photograph, one can discern the symphony of anger residing in the arrested figure. An Unnamed Girl, a Speculative History 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z

If Copland appears on concert programs at all, it’s the more lyrical Copland of the ballets and symphonies. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Maybe the greatest difference is that eight years ago, Dudamel was a 28-year-old idealist making a statement that this symphony was all about us and him. Dudamel and Beethoven — and Vin Scully — for the common man 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

He enjoyed being childish: in Harmonielehre , a 1984 symphony that alludes to a crabby atonal textbook by Schoenberg, he imagined his infant daughter, Quackie, riding on the shoulders of the German mystic Meister Eckhart. America's composer 2010-06-19T23:01:00Z

Barenboim has turned its orchestra into a world-class ensemble, with which he has just made a superb set of Bruckner symphony recordings. L.A. versus Berlin: Which is king of the classical world? 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

Given the enormous resources demanded by the symphony it is no surprise that a student orchestra and a youth orchestra are taking it on: no need to pay overtime or hire lots of extras. Into the Music: Strauss?s ?Alpine Symphony? Played Twice in One Night 2012-04-13T22:20:54Z

On Thursday, when the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra performed the symphony at Lincoln Center, the notes were the same as ever. Review: A Ukrainian Orchestra Speaks With Quiet Intensity 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z

The symphony will also continue premiering commissioned works. Seattle Symphony’s 2018-19 season builds on themes explored by Ludovic Morlot 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

Featuring Mozart’s overture to “La Clemenza di Tito” in addition to the Beethoven concerto and the Haydn symphony, the Christmas Eve show was cozy and compact, beginning at 7 p.m. and ending just after 8. Music Review: The New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-25T22:36:15Z

Sibelius’s incidental music for the Swedish Theater, recorded here in complete rather than concert-suite form, was written in 1905, between his second and third symphonies. Classical Playlist: Gabrieli, Bach, 'Distant Voices' and More 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

Another highlight of the season, “Beethoven at 250,” featuring the orchestra performing and recording all nine symphonies between May 28 and June 14, has not been canceled. After $25 million stimulus, stunned NSO players receive one-week notice from Kennedy Center 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z

I saw Cave and the Bad Seeds last week at the Sydney Opera House, where they were accompanied by a symphony orchestra and a children's choir. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds cry murder Adelaide 2013-03-04T09:53:05Z

But a symphony can have three to six movements, depending on what the composer thinks appropriate. Seattle Symphony is up for 3 Grammys. Here’s a beginners guide to enjoying the Symphony. 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

At a certain point in a complete musical traversal — of all Shostakovich’s string quartets, say, or all nine Beethoven symphonies — you inevitably reach the less popular works. Review: Yefim Bronfman Plays Prokofiev’s Overlooked Piano Sonatas 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z

A snappy new chamber symphony premiered by Jacaranda proved playful and inventive, its twists and turns a pleasure. Noon to Midnight, L.A. Phil delivers new music (and free ice cream) 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

Morlot will introduce each piece, interview the musicians on stage and share his plans for the symphony. Morlot, symphony musicians added to Bumbershoot lineup 2011-08-18T18:21:04Z

If Vänskä’s Mahler cycle misfired in symphonies that need more extroversion than reserve, it also includes a Tenth that is among the most convincing available. A Conductor’s Tumultuous, Invaluable Tenure Ends in Minnesota 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

For Bruckner, the symphony is motion of nature operating one dimension beyond what we can see or understand, and only feel and imagine. Bruckner as a holiday treat? The L.A. Phil thinks so 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

In 1999, one of Australia's leading symphony orchestras threatened to boycott the venue, saying the acoustics absorb the sound and drain performances of their energy. Sydney Opera House gets major upgrade to fix hated acoustics 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

There’s an honorable history of programmatic symphonies, and Mr. Davies’s new 10th continues it. Music Review: Beating the ‘Curse of the Ninth’ 2014-02-04T13:01:10Z

Moore played the oboe with the band a total of 29 times alongside the Rockettes, a ballet troupe and symphony orchestra on the historic stage, he said. EXCHANGE: Joliet band was a New York hit in 1936 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

Wilson, who came up with the idea for the orchestra in March and plans to revive it next summer, said she made a point of featuring Silvestrov’s symphony as a way of promoting Ukrainian culture. An Orchestra Supports Ukraine, and Reunites a Couple Parted by War 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z

She patiently, persuasively built that symphony’s fitful first movement, and the whole work had a feeling of straightforwardness, lightness and modesty; neither tempos nor emotions were milked; the performance was more lovely than intense. Review: A Conductor Adds Her Name to Philharmonic Contenders 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

But more recently, the filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard used a tantalizingly brief excerpt from the symphony’s first movement in his 2014 3-D feature “Goodbye to Language.” Review: An Orchestra of Teenagers, but No Apologies Necessary 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

The reception of Prokofiev's Fifth symphony in 1944 was enhanced, even overshadowed, by the canons sounding to mark the Red Army's triumphant entry into Nazi Germany. Hall?/Elder - review 2010-10-04T20:45:00Z

One of the best-known figures in British music, Davis worked with the London symphony for more than half a century. London Symphony conductor Colin Davis dies at 85 2013-04-15T12:00:18Z

This mini-Arcadia is just one portion of the landscape devised by Edmund Hollander, who says it emphasizes a "symphony of flowers designed to move through the seasons." A Stunning Hamptons House with Modern-Meets-Victorian Interiors 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

Before that, on Friday and Saturday, Jeffrey Kahane conducts and plays a far more ordinary program of symphonies and piano concertos by Mozart. Classical & Opera Listings for June 5-11 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

That’s what he wanted — a classical career, with symphonies, opera and ballet. Jon Kalbfleisch tunes up ‘A Little Night Music’ 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

Those skills, approaches and traits are paramount in a role that’s at the crux of what makes a symphony great. Seattle Symphony picks Thomas Dausgaard to succeed Ludovic Morlot as music director 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

Presenting the symphonies like this raises the issue of overall narrative, particularly as a vast majority of attendees will hear only a small portion of the whole. A Long Party of Concerts to Celebrate Anton Bruckner 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

But at concerts in that composer’s day, it was fairly common for movements of a symphony to be interspersed with opera arias, orchestral dances and whatnot. Review: Mozart, a Little Bit Symphony, a Little Bit Opera 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

The show's first half dutifully re-creates the new album, featuring songs by other artists in new versions dramatically reconfigured for a symphony orchestra. Gabriel's orchestral show slowly builds momentum 2010-05-05T01:55:00Z

Whose delicate fingers stitched the dotted netting, lace ruffles and velvet ribbons that transformed an all-black afternoon dress from 1898 into a symphony of texture? | Connecticut: At the Bruce Museum, Gowns as Works of Art 2010-07-10T00:08:00Z

But it makes a huge difference to hear a symphony, whether by Mozart or Messiaen, in a lively, inviting concert hall. Love Classical Music? Anthony Tommasini Recommends Contemporary Composers 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

After intermission, rather than conducting a symphonic chestnut, Mr. Gilbert led a crisp, lively account of Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony, probably the least-heard Beethoven symphony. Critic?s Notebook: No More Silent Summers 2011-06-28T22:12:22Z

The symphony expects to use the space for creative residencies and performances and as an artistic incubator for local artists. Seattle Symphony building Octave 9, a new performance venue inside Benaroya Hall 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

Cepress, chatting in his Chinatown International District studio last week, said the symphony approached him with the idea of “using wardrobe as a means of doing something special.” Seattle designer Michael Cepress adds panache to SSO ensembles 2014-05-05T02:00:05Z

Mahler's symphonies are sometimes read as chronicles of imperial decline as well as dramas of psychological introversion. RLPO/Petrenko ? review 2011-03-08T18:29:52Z

This is a youthful symphony and she let it sound youthful. Review: Make this L.A. Chamber Orchestra guest conductor feel at home 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

The one part of the symphony that borders on the humorous is the repeated, hammered chords of its final bars. Herbert Blomstedt illuminates Beethoven, joyously, with the NSO 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

And now you’re the first female conductor of a major American symphony. Rhythm of change: Marin Alsop leads the Baltimore Symphony into the future 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

Its vaulted ceilings rendered acoustics more akin to a symphony hall than a club. Decibel Festival on the cutting edge | Concert review 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

The symphony didn’t receive a public performance in Russia until 1963. Music Review | Vladimir Jurowski: The Long and Short of Shostakovich, and Jazzy Ravel 2010-03-08T22:17:00Z

In the symphony, the first movement’s ensemble problems seemed particularly odd given Sung’s sedate tempo; every professional orchestra knows this piece well, and she didn’t try to do anything fancy. Guest conductor Sung makes inconclusive NSO debut 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

The SSO is offering travel packages for fans to travel to New York with the symphony for its big gig; visit www.seattlesymphony.org for information. Symphony cellist Efe Baltacigil takes on Dvorák concerto 2014-03-20T21:15:55Z

Slowly I became aware, with horror, of what I was writing: a long and difficult symphony. Harold Shapero, 93, American Neo-Classical Composer, Dies 2013-05-22T03:58:50Z

The final piece, however, screamed “home turf” from the crisp opening chord: Mendelssohn’s “Italian” symphony, his fourth, with its sunny lyrical opening theme familiar as a wall mural in a restaurant. Review | A return to end the season: Eschenbach leads NSO 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

We ran into this tiny company called Metaweb, which had, through a symphony of machines and humans, begun to perfect a system to present real-world people, places and things in a computer memory. Google and the future of search: Amit Singhal and the Knowledge Graph 2013-01-19T21:59:00Z

Perhaps it was apt that his last recording was of an unfinished symphony, Bruckner’s Ninth, in a farewell Lucerne account that, in its final bars, seems almost to glow with compassion. To the Conductor Claudio Abbado, the Orchestra Was a Collective 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

But Beyoncé’s beacon is less Wagner than Duke Ellington, in that she composes a symphony in sound and movement and media and negritude. Beyoncé’s “Homecoming” Is a Total Synthesis of the Pop Arts 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

But music is about more than big symphonies, and it’s about more than the past. Nine Concerts in Seven Days at the World’s Most Famous Concert Hall 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

From the music to the prose, Jean-Raymond gave his audience a symphony of grounding bass and emotional grace notes. Robin Givhan: One Sunday night at Fashion Week redefined the stories that clothes can tell - The Washington Post 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

Royalty, movie stars and Sports Illustrated swimsuit models wore her creations, some inspired by symphonies, others perhaps by impressionist paintings. Leah Gottlieb, a Designer of Swimsuits, Dies at 94 2012-11-20T23:23:01Z

Lasting about an hour, the symphony sandwiches a tiny scherzo between two massive outer movements that present their events in highly unusual ways. Seattle Symphony to pair masterpieces by Shostakovich, Stravinsky 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Kahane conducted from a harpsichord, improvising an accompanying part, or continuo, to the symphony. Jeffrey Kahane Conducts New York Philharmonic Using iPad 2011-11-23T23:13:25Z

The symphony, which planned the fund-raisers as private events in an effort to comply with the law, is mulling whether it can go ahead with the first one, scheduled for May 23. Proposing Selections for Colorado’s Cannabis Concerts 2014-05-09T21:43:05Z

“Once I get a chance to experience the magnificent organ and the symphony together, we’ll explore on the spot,” he says. Seattle Symphony ends season with Wagner, Saint-Saëns 2013-06-25T18:30:10Z

Rock super-axe-man Jeff Beck returns with his first studio album in seven years, this time backed on several tunes by a symphony orchestra. Natalie Merchant, Jeff Beck, MGMT top this week's new CD releases 2010-04-12T20:23:00Z

It's probably the longest setting of the text in existence, twice as long as any of Dvorák's symphonies. LPO/J?rvi ? review 2010-10-13T20:45:00Z

Hamlisch was principal pops conductor for symphony orchestras in Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Dallas, Pasadena, Seattle and San Diego at the time of his death. Marvin Hamlisch, composer for Broadway and cinema, dies 2012-08-07T15:25:25Z

It was Mahler who said a symphony must embrace the whole world. LSO/Valery Gergiev 2010-05-24T21:16:00Z

A Beethoven symphony cycle is hardly innovative programming, but somehow, during his long career, Mr. Levine had never conducted the complete works. For James Levine, Now May Be a Time to Choose 2010-04-12T22:46:00Z

"It was this symphony of codes and sounds and pieces of L.A. communicating about emergencies you'd never otherwise be aware of." Jake Gyllenhaal digs deep for gritty 'Nightcrawler' role 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Rapid-fire cutting, whiplash zooms and tricks with repetition could combine to dilate a single moment in time and make gunfire into a symphony of wanton destruction. The Wild Bunch at 50: the enduring nihilism of Sam Peckinpah's western 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z

He brought the same exacting rhythmic discipline to Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, written in America between 1942-45 and described by the composer as a war symphony. BBCNow/S?nderg?rd ? review 2010-12-06T21:45:00Z

There should be no shame in being known as a film composer, especially when one’s credits include Hitchcock’s “Vertigo,” which critic Alex Ross once described as “a symphony for film and orchestra.” Ensemble shines spotlight on Herrmann’s film scores, and for good reason 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

As they broke up, Eastman wrote the symphony. A Long-Lost Symphonic Love Story Is Told Again 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

It’s a pity: The partnership was thriving both in concert and on record, with a 2019 release of Mieczyslaw Weinberg symphonies drawing admiration. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

The symphony launched its partnership with the academy in 2018 when five section principals spent 10 days teaching and picked a dozen students as fellows to work with the orchestra in London the following January. London Symphony, Simon Rattle work with California students 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z

She needs to be an entire symphony, not just one note. Top tips for writing a strong female hero: Moira Young 2012-08-15T10:15:25Z

The magnificent rain that fell later that night over Anaula’s spartan cabins drowned out the symphony of sounds coming from insects and birds. Latin America 2011 : Suriname, South America?s Hidden Treasure 2011-09-16T18:55:00Z

The first year of the BBC series last year saw the Philharmonic team up with dance duo Nero for a gig called the "dubstep symphony". xx 'excited' about orchestra gig 2012-09-10T05:11:46Z

More than usual, one felt the symphony’s incompleteness. Review | Noseda returns to the NSO podium and, just in time, finds the narrative 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

“I always loved a symphony orchestra, and as a conductor you can do more. So I thought, Why not?” A Conductor Who Knows His Way Around a Score, and a Farm 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

Those textures are easier to perceive throughout Vienna’s rendition — as in the crisp yet purposefully questing quality of the symphony’s final beats. 8 Things to Do This Fourth of July Weekend 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

No other city has a symphony anything like it. A symphony for Los Angeles, just one otherworldly delight at L.A. Phil's Mozart and Pärt festival 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

It’s poignant to read the insecure Tchaikovsky’s own criticism of this symphony, which suffered, he wrote, from his “want of skill in the management of form.” A Star Pianist Brings Soft-Spoken Virtuosity to Scriabin 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

Mr. Hogwood’s more than 200 recordings include the complete Mozart symphonies and the complete Mozart piano concertos, with the pianist Robert Levin. Christopher Hogwood, Early-Music Devotee, Dies at 73 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Bringuier had just enough time to race to his downtown apartment and change during intermission, yet he brought something spry and new to the symphony. L.A. Phil alum Lionel Bringuier wows in Zurich 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

A new iteration of the symphony’s past Sonic Evolution concerts, the Essential Series invites different voices from Seattle’s music community to partner with the orchestra in novel kinships. Indie folk-pop band Ivan & Alyosha to perform with Seattle Symphony 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

Having more people like me is important because there is a class divide, too; people don’t necessarily feel at ease going to a symphony concert or a ballet. ‘I Feel an Abundance’: A Composer Dips Into the Dance World 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

The festival aims to repeat the success of last year's concert series, which saw the Philharmonic perform a "dubstep symphony" with dance act Nero. The xx team up with BBC orchestra 2012-08-16T10:00:15Z

Composers after Beethoven were powerfully influenced by this technique, and not just Brahms and Mahler in their symphonies. Beethoven’s 250th Birthday: His Greatness Is in the Details 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

But, in fact, a Bruckner symphony is basically a symphony for strings and brass, the limits of which were laid out in Barenboim’s traversal of the Fifth Symphony, on January 24th. Daniel Barenboim and the Music of Anton Bruckner 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

Mr. Rattle reverts to the 1841 version, which he calls in the booklet notes “a symphony full of lightness and grace.” Schumann, via Simon Rattle, Robin Ticciati and Nézet-Séguin 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

That symphony is the first Bruckner piece Welser-Möst conducted when he was a mere 24 years old. Bruckner's Second Act 2011-07-16T14:05:00Z

The happenings vary from screenings of old movies such as "Manhattan" to grand Lincoln Center symphonies to humble one-man shows. NY arts world commemorates Sept. 11 in music, film 2011-09-09T20:52:12Z

Skala said symphony officials interpreted this as violating the terms of the suspension barring her from the building. Baltimore flutist fired months after social media rebuke 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

The strings were warm and expressive and, as usual with this orchestra, the woodwinds were especially fine, most notably another oboist, Matthew Dine, in the earlier Mozart symphony. Review: Matthias Goerne Captures the Mood at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

The Triple Concerto, next-door neighbour to the Eroica in any chronological Beethoven list, and as lightweight and unassuming musically as the symphony is weighty and epic, preceded it here. CBSO/Nelsons – review 2012-12-14T17:00:03Z

"The musicians of a major American symphony orchestra live in a global marketplace," Wright said. Labor standoffs silence orchestras in Minn., Indy 2012-10-02T20:17:14Z

With the third and fourth symphonies Thursday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the tragedy of the loss of young life became the actual content of the program. Dudamel gives Schubertian tragedy a surprising buoyancy 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

Orchestras rarely break the habit of commissioning curtain-raisers — something brief and often forgettable to open a program before the fun of a familiar concerto or symphony. Best Classical Music Performances of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

Besides Dudamel's Beethoven symphony cycle, the Utah Symphony began one last month and the Minnesota Symphony launches a cycle on New Year's Eve. L.A. Phil digs into early Beethoven, explores what is immortal 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

Over the past several months they have held concerts independent of the symphony at a local church, raising money on their own. San Antonio Symphony to Dissolve Amid Labor Dispute 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

A year later, Dudamel used the symphony to introduce the Bolívars to L.A., generating what may be the loudest, most tumultuous audience response the hall has witnessed. Twigs break, cans bang and L.A. Philharmonic soars with Mahler 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

"If you hear any of his orchestral music - his symphonies, concertos, or his song-cycle Correspondances - you're immersed in an irresistible kaleidoscope of instrumental colour and, above all, a world of heightened feeling," said Service. French composer Dutilleux dies at 97 2013-05-22T14:11:20Z

I was especially gratified when in 2009, Sony Classical released a box set of his Haydn symphonies and Masses with the Philharmonic. In Praise of Bernstein as Conductor: Movement That Mesmerized 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

Thanks to the advocacy of composer and BBC producer Robert Simpson, Brian had an extraordinary late flowering, writing 20 of his 32 symphonies after the age of 80 – another musical record. The Gothic Symphony: 'It's a Himalayan peak' 2011-07-13T20:30:01Z

Nyman's upbeat symphony — taken from music he wrote for Polish films and given added Coplandesque overtones, had its premiere by a youth orchestra in Mexico City in November. S.F.'s Other Minds concerts create some otherworldly sounds 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

"Bruckner was awestruck by the idea of the symphony," says Dausgaard. Violinist Isabelle Faust to appear with Seattle Symphony 2011-10-26T20:02:04Z

Tchaikovsky’s third symphony is, like the Marsalis concerto, in D Major, and also like the concerto, full of big approachable graspable feelings, presented in an only slightly tidier package. NSO offers exuberant Marsalis concerto 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

A piece of those proportions is the standard concert opener, often leading to a rather longer concerto before intermission and, after it, a meaty symphony. 400 Days Later, the New York Philharmonic Returns 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

Including Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony on this series ventured close to cliché: In an oft-told story, Beethoven, flush with anti-monarchical fervor, dedicated the symphony to Napoleon, only to void that gesture after Napoleon declared himself emperor. Review: A Symphony Talks Politics 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

With the Toronto symphony, Machover wants the orchestra to do the opposite: to democratise classical music, while still making something that is creatively excellent. The orchestra as mass collaboration 2012-11-12T17:45:01Z

In that bassoon call — along with the blending of folk-style melodies and classical sweep, and a dancing finale — Price’s symphony bears the unmistakable influence of Dvorak’s “New World.” Review: Without a Note of Beethoven, an Orchestra Shines 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

One symphony violinist called the programs “a recipe for tendinitis.” Music: Playing With the Orchestra in Baltimore 2012-07-13T16:19:48Z

He and his City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra reached the Sixth and Seventh symphonies this week, with one concert left to go. CBSO/Nelsons: Beethoven cycle, The Flying Dutchman; Eugene Onegin – review 2013-03-24T00:07:02Z

Their recordings of the complete symphonies and the song cycles for orchestra, taken from live performances over the last decade, have received seven Grammy Awards and were released as a boxed CD set last year. Music Review: San Francisco Symphony Plays Mahler and Samuel Carl Adams 2012-09-30T21:54:38Z

Wilson brought on the full symphony following intermission and launched into a cover of Pearl Jam’s “Daughter” before strapping on the mandolin again for Heart’s “These Dreams.” Review: Nancy Wilson plays her first live show in two years with Seattle Symphony 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z

And music it is: a symphony of dialogues and monologues and almost choral incantations that seem to exist both immediately within and poetically outside of a very particular, finely detailed stretch of German history. ArtsBeat: In London, a 'Henry V' That Doesn't Take Sides 2012-06-27T15:15:09Z

For listeners whose greatest passion is the music of the 19th century, the instruments of the standard symphony orchestra are all you need. In a Forest of Instruments, Signs of Evolution 2010-09-03T17:20:00Z

We may not spot the moss and fungus under our feet but in the symphony there are notes and phrases reminding us of these vital bits of the forest ecology. Listening to the sounds of the woods 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

That 1990 performance, moreover, was the last time that the BBC Symphony Orchestra – still the principal orchestra and spinal cord of the Proms – played a Mozart symphony in any Proms season. The Proms' neglect of Mozart means we are losing touch with his true genius 2012-07-19T21:00:04Z

In the final album of the series, renditions of the Seventh, Eighth and Ninth symphonies make familiar passages glint anew. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

Beginning on a high with No 39 in E flat, each of these symphonies is greater than the last. OAE/Rattle; Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Manze; A Midsummer Night's Dream – review 2013-02-03T00:05:56Z

So far, so expected, except that Schubert wasn't mourning Joseph Haydn, revered "father" of the symphony and string quartet. Radio review: Composer of the Week 2010-06-22T07:00:00Z

An experiment in genre boundaries, this Seattle Symphony performance will feature new compositions orchestrated for artists you wouldn’t expect to hear in a symphony hall: indie-soul band Pickwick and rap icon Sir Mix-A-Lot. Your week in Seattle music: Eels, Coolio, Metronomy, more 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

The Brahms symphony proved a good showcase for Ms. Phelps and the rest of the orchestra’s superb low strings, and for Mr. Wang and his fine fellow woodwind principals. Review: A Stirring Premiere at the Philharmonic, With Perfect Timing 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

A section of the symphony was released a few weeks later, as part of the premiere episode of a new podcast from the ensemble. In Cleveland, Schubert Outsings Even the Mighty ‘Otello’ 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z

Mahler began sketching this symphony in 1885, when he was 25, and he fiddled with it up to 1906, five years before his death. A hero's welcome for Esa-Pekka Salonen at Disney Hall 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

The symphonies are just abstract enough and just specific enough, just mundane enough and just spiritual enough, to offer the experience of a pilgrim's progress through troubles and into transcendence. L.A. Phil digs into early Beethoven, explores what is immortal 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

Many would say Mahler symphonies, especially since the days when Leonard Bernstein championed these epic works at the New York Philharmonic and, through his impassioned commitment, made them central to the repertory worldwide. Are Bruckner Symphonies Now the Proving Ground for Conductors? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

His initial program note about the symphony was focused more on technique than emotion. Review: Christopher Rouse Leaves a Haunting Final Symphony 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

It’s not that he’s suddenly employing the rigorous architecture of, say, a Beethoven symphony. Review: Nico Muhly’s Moody Concerto for Two Pianos 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

More fundamentally, it’s that a tour by an anointed symphony orchestra from the other side barely registers in the Western political consciousness. 2010-02-03T21:58:00Z

The rock choir/symphony brings their exuberant, theatrical and complex set to a relatively small venue. A&E highlights: Craft beer, Steely Dan, Railroad Days 2013-08-07T22:51:24Z

No details on the terms would be released before the contract was ratified, the symphony statement said. Sounds of strike ending come from SF Symphony 2013-04-01T03:16:04Z

You could make a case for the piece as one of the great American symphonies. When Boston Ruled the Music World 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

Come spring, a touch of color can brighten up any outfit — even that of a traditionally staid symphony musician. Seattle designer Michael Cepress adds panache to SSO ensembles 2014-05-05T02:00:05Z

“This is really about the future of the orchestra,” said Stephen Lester, a symphony string bassist who is chairman of the union’s negotiating team. Chicago Symphony musicians’ strike over wages, pension 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

But such openness, he observed, means that fewer and fewer youngsters are interested in writing for symphonies, a development Mr. Salonen rues. A Manifesto for a 21st-Century Concert. (Drinks Allowed.) 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

Zinman tried to refresh the repertory, but he made the orchestra known for its striking recordings of Beethoven and Mahler symphonies played with attention-getting speed and friskiness. L.A. Phil alum Lionel Bringuier wows in Zurich 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

Not his most familiar work, this powerful symphony is a troubling portrait of post-World War II feeling in Russia. Remarkable violinist, conductor were masterful pair at Seattle Symphony 2012-11-02T20:31:04Z

From California to Oklahoma to Maine, the symphony of colors that accompanies the arrival of a snap in the air is playing out differently in 2022. How to Time Your Leaf-Peeping Trip This Fall 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z

His complete set of the Beethoven symphonies was much praised as, of course, were his recordings of the Gilbert and Sullivan classics. Charles Mackerras 1925-2010 2010-07-15T10:55:00Z

The symphony said on its web page that it would contact patrons about their tickets. Itzhak Perlman Cancels Concert in North Carolina, Citing Bias Law 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

It's hard not to feel reflexively sympathetic, and to begin to ponder what the differences are, after all, between a symphony, a painting, and a novel, where only the latter requires editing. The importance of good editing 2012-06-14T14:04:47Z

Mostly he mixes his cool blues with his warm oranges, creating a clashing symphony that is animated without being agitated, at once serene and stimulating. Lee Mullican's colors crackle with energy 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

Bristling with virtuosic instrumental solos across the full range of the orchestral palette, it’s like a concerto grosso posing as a symphony. ‘Music for a Prince,’ an Artek Concert Focusing on Haydn 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

It is also often described as the most gargantuan symphony ever written, a musical evocation of the medieval cathedral. Top of the Proms 2011 2011-07-07T20:30:02Z

And this is only one bar out of 1,260 in this symphony.” 2010-02-15T16:59:00Z

The logical way to do that was with a symphony. 'Zelda' game music becomes full-blown symphony in concert 2012-03-21T21:42:05Z

With his first symphony written on the new job, the exuberantly inventive No. 6 “Le Matin,” Haydn presented the players with a gift. ‘Music for a Prince,’ an Artek Concert Focusing on Haydn 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

This information will be presented as "a visual symphony of electronic data", the team promises. Place Pulse: a new website rates city safety 2011-08-19T16:38:49Z

Although Bernstein described him as “an extraordinary violinist,” he had almost no experience playing with a major symphony orchestra. David Nadien, Philharmonic Concertmaster, Is Dead at 88 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

Americans saw the symphony as a model of republicanism, of the individual’s place in the whole, and believed that it would become “the cornerstone of an authentically national musical culture.” Review: Douglas W. Shadle’s ‘Orchestrating the Nation’ 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

It will culminate with the world premiere of an as-yet untitled orchestral work by Part, sharing the bill with Mozart's symphonies No. 25 and 40. L.A. Phil lays out its 2015-16 season at Disney Hall 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

As a former Black Panther whose bittersweet symphonies with Chic exuded bourgeois sophistication, Rodgers knows all about music whose shiny surfaces conceal darker truths about society. Disco gets lucky 2013-05-31T08:58:13Z

The performance was by the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, which is sharing the cycle of nine Beethoven symphonies with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Gustavo Dudamel and Bolivar symphony bring Beethoven's revolutionary conviction out in force 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

But, as his obituaries in 1896 made clear, he was more widely seen as a strangely solitary Austrian church musician with oversized ambitions whose sprawling symphonies were earnest yet awkward and self-indulgent works. Music Review: An Unlikely Pair, Making Musical Sense 2011-07-14T23:06:24Z

But Mr. Bychkov made a case for his claim, highlighting the chamber-music-like interchanges of soloists not only in the concerto but also in the symphony. Review: Semyon Bychkov Leads the New York Philharmonic 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

Whatever its genesis, this score is in fact a wondrously strange and complex symphony. Music Review: ‘City Noir,’ by John Adams, at Lincoln Center Festival 2012-07-13T21:21:56Z

Kahane preceded Mendelssohn's "Italian" symphony with Nocturne and Scherzo from the composer's incidental music to "A Midsummer Night's Dream," the horn-rich Nocturne allowing Todd a final bow. L.A. Chamber Orchestra ending season on a sunny note 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

Broadway is such an engine, and all the off-Broadway theaters and the dance companies and the symphonies, we'll get back there. "People are starved to be in a crowded room again": Cherry Jones on how theater will bounce back 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

Hearing the best symphony of all time is all very well, but there’s a good case to be made for fresh music.  NSO offers energetic Dvorak and a fresh cellist​ 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

The symphony begins with large, heavy chords and somber, dark melodic ideas. Hurricane Mama's impressive set of pipes 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

The continuing paucity of blacks in major American symphony orchestras shows how sorely the organization’s efforts are needed and how much work it still has to do. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z

While continuing as a stand-up on stage and small screen, she developed a humorous musical act as the pianist Dame Illya Dillya, appearing from 1971 for 10 years with symphony orchestras across the US. Phyllis Diller 2012-08-21T17:39:18Z

After intermission came Tchaikovsky’s “Manfred” Symphony, a nearly hourlong hybrid of symphony and tone poem. Review: An Ecstatic ‘Rosenkavalier’ Introduces a Conductor to Carnegie 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

At night, you sleep in some of the tallest treehouses in the world — thatched, open-air observatories surrounded by panoramic views of the forest and a symphony of birds. Treehouses on top of the world: Zip-lining to lodgings in Laos 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

They don’t compose symphonies and they’re not starting up their own clothing lines. My kid doesn’t like books and it’s okay 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

As the twin opening E flat chords of the most revolutionary symphony of all time are played by the most radical orchestra of all time, we may well find the answer. Gustavo Dudamel and London: a special relationship 2012-06-19T16:43:02Z

Each concert – except the final one on Friday which is devoted entirely to a performance of Beethoven's Ninth – frames a piece by Boulez with two symphonies. This week's new live music 2012-07-20T23:05:00Z

Though his reputation had been growing, a symphony was a major statement, and this piece exudes the freshness and imagination of a new arrival on the scene. The Ultimate Beethoven Symphony Collection 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

Naturally, no such caveat applied to the Bruckner symphony, a work Mr. Haitink has recorded three times, most recently in a splendid version released by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Music Review: Bernard Haitink and the New York Philharmonic - Review 2011-11-18T23:46:31Z

Orchestras of the time were not a static phenomenon, but an evolving one, making use of the latest evolving technology as regards the woodwind and brass instruments, rather as Beethoven’s symphonies evolved. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

I set myself the task of earning enough money to hear my symphony played by an orchestra. Experience: I dreamed a symphony, then composed it 2013-05-18T07:00:02Z

It wasn't just a simple melody, but a symphony. Experience: I dreamed a symphony, then composed it 2013-05-18T07:00:02Z

Most moving, perhaps, is “Mr. Botibol,” the saga of a lifelong failure who finds unexpected fulfillment and connection in pretending to conduct the great symphonies and concertos of Beethoven and Chopin. Roald Dahl’s Twisted, Overlooked Stories for Adults 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Still, this is soulful Russian charm expressed in a minor-key symphony. Music Review: Mariinsky Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-07T21:24:21Z

If your gauge is an excitement meter, that peaked the night before with Bolívars' hair-raising Seventh and Eighth symphonies. The orchestral worlds of Los Angeles and Venezuela collide for Beethoven's Ninth at Disney Concert Hall 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Dudamel will conduct all nine Mahler symphonies, some with the Philharmonic and others with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, the flagship orchestra of Venezuela’s nationwide music education system. ArtsBeat: Los Angeles Philharmonic Announces New Season 2011-02-07T18:15:24Z

And there were too many nights when stirring Bach choral works, animated Mozart symphonies, intense Brahms concertos, diaphanous Debussy scores and more just sounded wan, and I felt restless in my seat. What I’ve Learned in 60 Years of Listening to the Philharmonic 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

Hakka Chinese folk songs, operatic arias, a Mahler symphony and the recorded sounds of natural thunder provide the soundtrack. Taiwan's Cloud Gate Dance Theatre heads to L.A. with force of nature 'Rice' 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z

She cries after each performance of the Silvestrov symphony, and when the orchestra plays an arrangement of the Ukrainian national anthem as an encore. An Orchestra Supports Ukraine, and Reunites a Couple Parted by War 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z

Animals in a particular ecosystem evolve to occupy different frequencies in the sonic spectrum, like instruments in a symphony orchestra. Non-fiction reviews roundup 2012-07-06T06:59:01Z

“All these people are standing up like it’s a rock concert, and it’s Beethoven symphonies. It’s incredible.” Joshua Bell’s London 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

After long anticipation, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will open Sept. 30 with screenings of “The Wizard of Oz” accompanied by live symphony music. L.A. bounces back with breezy new stays, superheroes and movie magic 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

Particularly confounding is an unrelaxed and excitable Sixth that hardly lives up to the symphony’s nickname as the “Pastoral.” Gustavo Dudamel: An Introduction in 10 Recordings 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z

In 2020, conductor and orchestra are performing and recording all nine Beethoven symphonies over 18 days, part of the worldwide commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth. Kennedy Center announces its 2019-20 classical music season 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

“But to play this music for a symphony orchestra is as important as playing Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich and Ravel — everything — because it’s very difficult, it’s very healthy, it’s very pure, it’s very imaginative.” A Female Conductor Joins the Ranks of Top U.S. Orchestras 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

That is hardly ever done for the simple reason that each concert is a full price ticket, and thus each concert needs at least one meaty symphony. L.A. Phil digs into early Beethoven, explores what is immortal 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

A symphony orchestra, mariachi band and other artists honored Jose Jose’s legacy by performing some of his hits, including “The Sad One” and “The Ship of Oblivion.” 'Stories through his music': Jose Jose fans pay tribute to Mexican singer 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

“IT is dreadful,” declared India Hicks, the model and former “Top Design” host, in a supremely proper English accent that made the phrase a symphony of syllables. The Royal Wedding: A Royal Wedding? She?s Been There 2011-04-01T19:00:45Z

On that track, as with Joni Mitchell’s “A Case of You,” the symphony players, conducted by Jason Weinberger, added just the right nuance and flourish. Brandi Carlile wows in her concert with Seattle Symphony 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z

Scott called the film “a glorious and haunting symphony of color, emotion and sound.” What’s on TV Wednesday: An Adventure Series and ‘68 Whiskey’ 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

“Beethoven’s Tenth Symphony,” from 1979, knitted together isolated chords, arpeggios and rhythmic components from Beethoven’s nine symphonies into a single grand tribute. Pierre Henry, Composer Who Found the Music in Sounds, Dies at 89 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

We now have the legal precedent that Williams may have too much absorbed the spirit of a small Korngold passage in an hourlong symphony. 'Blurred Lines' verdict would rock Amadeus and other great composers 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z

The orchestral players were from the symphony's Youth Orchestra. San Francisco Symphony interprets John Cage, with great results 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

The Fourth remains a relative rarity among the composer’s output of 15 symphonies. Seattle Symphony to pair masterpieces by Shostakovich, Stravinsky 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

And flu or no flu, Rattle and his orchestra gave the single most vital, inspiring and revelatory performance of a Haydn symphony I've ever heard. Simon Rattle: Baton charge 2011-02-15T21:30:00Z

The concert concluded Mr. Gergiev’s latest survey of the Mahler symphonies, begun at Carnegie Hall with the Mariinsky Orchestra in October and concluding with three London Symphony concerts last week. Music Review: A Conquering Climax to a Tribute to Mahler 2011-02-28T23:16:12Z

What better way to introduce kids to the symphony than with music they already know and love through film? 9 best family-friendly arts and entertainment events in the Seattle area to take kids to in fall 2019 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

Lunging wildly between satirical farce and teary sentimentality, the movie follows the misadventures of a ragtag symphony orchestra that travels from Moscow to Paris under false pretenses. | 'The Concert': Radu Mihaileanu?s Comedy Focuses on Zany Orchestra 2010-07-29T21:15:00Z

The symphony, which Dvorak wrote in New York, was given its premiere by the Philharmonic in 1893. A Facebook First for New York Philharmonic: Streaming Its 175th Anniversary Opener 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

The Haydn symphony and the Beethoven concerto, on the other hand, represent each composer at his height, and each performance was a joy. Mostly Mozart Showcase Three Masters at Lincoln Center 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z

A Hero's Song lacks a detailed literary programme, though it follows the outline of a symphony, with a funeral march as its slow movement. Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No 9; A Hero's Song – review 2013-04-04T20:29:01Z

All sections of the Juilliard ensemble shone in the intense and beautifully detailed performance of the Mahler symphony led by Mr. Gardner, from the radiant opening, with its shimmering A, to the exuberant conclusion. Music Review: Juilliard Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall 2012-12-17T05:23:04Z

One dancer performed in his socks, striking up a symphony of claps, slaps and the muffled drumming of his hands on his chest. Perspective | At the Kennedy Center, Michelle Dorrance’s tappers pay homage to Ella Fitzgerald and Christmas 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z

When the Chicago Symphony Orchestra offered him a commission, he wrote a raw, seething symphony of rage and remembrance for friends who had died. Review: The Searing Power of an AIDS Symphony 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

So the symphony starts with this proclamation of love, and basically fails. A Long-Lost Symphonic Love Story Is Told Again 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

Beethoven lovers will have a chance to hear all nine symphonies in order from Oct. L.A. Phil lays out its 2015-16 season at Disney Hall 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

But the is marking the milestone, too, by programming two of his symphonies. Prom 22: BBC Philharmonic/Noseda – review 2012-07-31T11:16:53Z

A hundred and ten years ago, a symphony of machinery whirred as workers assembled the first Model T vehicles, regarded as the first broadly affordable car, at the bustling Ford Piquette Avenue Plant. Detroit, Then and Now 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

As the central part of the stage rotates, bringing different conversations into focus, the voices blend into a perfectly pitched symphony of screeching egos and obsessions that somehow never connect with one another. | 'Marie and Bruce': There?s Room for Everyone Aboard a Marital Misery Tour 2011-04-06T03:00:05Z

And it should thrill one every bit as much as a Mahler symphony. John Eliot Gardiner: Monteverdi and me 2010-09-02T22:01:00Z

Gustavo Dudamel made the half-hour symphony the most important piece of his Los Angeles Philharmonic program in Walt Disney Concert Hall. With Dudamel and Mozart, there's life in the old 'Linz' yet 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

Despite his renown in opera and symphony circles, Brainerd half-jokingly says he is considering writing a memoir called "The Most Unlikely Candidate." A distinctive voice: Everett's Clayton Brainerd adds to SSO's Beethoven concert 2010-12-30T20:36:03Z

“Together we must find new, compelling ways to engage the community to assure the support the symphony needs,” she said. Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Agrees to a New Labor Deal 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z

One idea he is considering: performing a complete cycle of Haydn symphonies over several years, with each concert including works from multiple periods. Bard College and New York Philharmonic in New Ventures 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

The extension gives the orchestra star power and stability at a time when many symphonies are struggling with finances and trying to reach new audiences. Gustavo Dudamel and L.A. Philharmonic agree to contract extension 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

He also said he had made sure to preserve his participation in the symphony’s United States tour this fall. Levine?s Injury Causes Headaches Around the Musical World 2011-09-21T12:00:22Z

I recently read an article about Dvorak’s “New World” symphony that opened by stating that the piece was the best symphony of all time. NSO offers energetic Dvorak and a fresh cellist​ 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Against this symphony of geologic time, the span of 43 years is a mere grace note. When the Light, Shadow and Stars Aligned: Standing Where Ansel Adams Stood 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

That’s why even if I conduct a symphony 10 times, it’s like a world premiere of that symphony.” ‘A very not normal life’: Gianandrea Noseda, the NSO’s next music director 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

Each year, the Northwest Mahler Festival brings together professional, amateur and student musicians to perform one of nine finished symphonies by the late-Romantic-era composer. Young conductor returns to Seattle for Mahler fest 2011-07-15T15:35:06Z

"We are thinking of a complete set of the Rachmaninoff symphonies, also with the Gewandhaus, so a major drive into the late romantic repertoire, very close to the sound culture of the Gewandhaus." Conductor Chailly: Appeasing La Scala's 'gods' with Italian opera 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

Virtuosity was rife in the playing, especially that of the clarinetist Katherine Spencer and the timpanist Benedict Hoffnung, though Mr. Gardner’s constant risks exacted an occasional toll in the symphony. Review: The Academy of Ancient Music Tackled Mendelssohn at Mostly Mozart Festival 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

Anton Bruckner’s symphonies are often compared to Gothic cathedrals: great ponderous, airy massive towers of hewn rock. Eschenbach, NSO offer mammoth but gentle Bruckner in season’s final program.

Some would name the symphonies he wrote based on the albums David Bowie recorded in Berlin in the late 1970s, “Heroes” and “Low.” Perspective | If you think you know who Philip Glass is, you probably don’t. 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

He performed the dancing minuet movement, and indeed the whole symphony, to his own choreography. Impressive guest turn by symphony’s former principal horn |Classical review 2013-05-03T18:32:51Z

Morlot chose to switch them, ending with the symphony; a good choice, as it would be hard to add anything after the magnificent triumphal end to its final movement. At SSO, remarkable Wagner, majestic Saint-Saëns 2013-06-28T19:54:33Z

However strange and otherworldly, the symphony is music of purpose, as much of Coates' music is. Gloria Coates' great oddity on display at REDCAT 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

Mr. Dudamel, the Venezuelan conductor, has said that he dreamed of leading all of Mahler’s symphonies to commemorate the centennial of the composer’s death. Classical Music on Disc, on DVD and in Books 2012-11-22T21:26:23Z

The idea, powered by symphony chairwoman Leslie Chihuly, was to connect pop and symphonic music, and draw new people into the symphony's sounds — and seats. A salute to those fighting good fights 2012-06-12T03:57:03Z

An ongoing cycle of Vaughan Williams symphonies, for example, is more effective in the lush Fifth and the elegiac “A Pastoral Symphony” than in the violence of the Fourth and Sixth. A Critic’s First Orchestra Defines Britain’s Musical Soul 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Schwarz's final concerts with the symphony are Thursday and Saturday evenings. Seattle City Council honors symphony's Schwarz with street name 2011-06-14T19:00:39Z

Both symphonies, however, continually thwart symphonic logic, proceeding as though controlled by nature, ideas breaking off suddenly or recombining with the unpredictability of clouds on a windy day. Making Sibelius modern with Esa-Pekka Salonen 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

A favorite among critics at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, this Georgian film from Alexandre Koberidze has been described as both a fairy tale and a city symphony. Winter Movies 2021: Here’s What’s Coming Soon to Streaming and Theaters 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

The composer completed this hourlong symphony months after the death of Stalin. Review: With Bach as a Catalyst, Thierry Escaich’s Lavish Concerto 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

First came the boos, like an owl symphony, or a cattle crescendo. Is Ryan Gosling's Lost River Crazy Brilliant or Just Plain Crazy? 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

On the surface, the piece has the form of a Baroque concerto grosso, but the two forces seem to exist on separate planes, heightening the symphony’s solitary feel. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

And listening to "Democracy" is like listening to a symphony of voices - internal and external - in which everyone belongs to a universal, uncomprehending chorus, forever pondering the unknowable creatures that we all are. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: A Chorus of Voices 2012-07-12T16:46:49Z

The performance of a symphony that received its UK premiere under the baton of Proms founder Henry Wood launches the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of Mahler's birth. BBC Proms 2010 2010-07-16T05:44:00Z

“He’s saying ‘unfinished symphony,’ and that also implies there are some flaws.” Six Lyrics That Show Why ‘Hamilton’ Is Tough to Translate 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

Daniel Barenboim’s Bruckner cycle reaches its glorious conclusion with the immense final three symphonies. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

But the earlier symphony had already reached epic proportions, so Mahler built a less ambitious lyrical symphony around that song. Gemma New test-drives the Long Beach Symphony with an interesting, ambitious program 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

A year earlier he had taken the symphony on his first European tour with the orchestra, a bold move for a conductor under 30 and in just his second season as music director. Mahler lives! Dudamel gives his most impressive performance yet with L.A. Phil 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

During the Mozart symphony, in an intense episode of the third movement, the musicians are seated in chairs facing every which way. A Swiss Orchestra Dances Beyond the Boundaries of Classical Music 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

Thankfully, Adès has made further music from the score: the solo piano Berceuse, written for Kirill Gerstein, and this symphony, which cleverly echoes the opera without excerpting it. Review: A Conductor Takes a Victory Lap With Her Orchestra 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z

The Philadelphia Orchestra’s cycle of Beethoven symphonies was supposed to come to Carnegie Hall in spring 2020. Review: Two Years Later, a Beethoven Cycle Reaches Its Finale 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

Gustav Mahler, maker of gigantic symphonies, may seem an odd preoccupation for a chamber group. Argento at the Armory, With ‘Das Lied’ 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

Morlot said he and SSO have announced their split so early so “the symphony can imagine what the next vision will be.” Seattle Symphony conductor Ludovic Morlot to leave next year 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

On Sunday he begins a Mahler symphony cycle with the Mariinsky at Carnegie. | Oct. 17 ? 23 2010-10-15T16:51:00Z

Unfolding like a symphony of small humiliations, there isn’t a moment in this movie that doesn’t feel at least vaguely familiar, and there isn’t a moment in this movie that doesn’t feel completely true. The 7 best movies new to Netflix in February 2019 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

“It was really touching, to see the Chinese symphony sharing a stage with the Philadelphia Orchestra 40 years later,” said Craig Hamilton, vice president of global initiatives and government relations for the Philadelphia Orchestra. ArtsBeat: Philadelphia Orchestra Tours China, 40 Years Later 2013-06-07T17:12:29Z

Bringing together a symphony orchestra and circus performers indeed sounds like a perfect summer treat for the whole family, a partnering of beautiful music and a three-ring extravaganza. ‘Cirque de la Symphonie’ brings spectacle to Benaroya 2013-07-10T22:03:55Z

Even as symphonies and other works for soloist and orchestra kept coming from the Bolcom workshop, no new piano concerto followed — a peculiar development, given his own stature as a keyboardist. Decades Later, a Composer Revisits the Piano Concerto 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

Nothing says that the 50-year-old Mahler, for all his troubles, was not contemplating an 11th symphony and beyond. Review: We Held Our Breath Through Simon Rattle’s Mahler 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gardiner’s cycle, performed over five evenings, amounted to a reintroduction to symphonies that felt smaller and more transparent than usual. This Is How to Do a Beethoven Symphony Cycle 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

His legacy is defined by intimidating bodies of symphonies, string quartets, piano sonatas and more, now canonic. ArtsBeat: The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics 2011-01-19T12:00:08Z

Both symphony performances showed the degree to which Mr. Luisi prizes sharp dynamic contrasts and fluid tempos. Music Review: Vienna Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall - Review 2011-11-15T23:15:18Z

“From the beginning,” Adams says, “my friends at the symphony were asking for a large-scale work.” Seattle Symphony premieres John Luther Adams work 2013-06-12T23:10:49Z

The symphony ends with a sternly anguished setting for mezzo-soprano of a Hebrew text from the Book of Lamentations. Not Just ‘West Side Story’: Celebrating Bernstein’s Symphonies 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

But he doesn’t want to present Beethoven in Seattle as just a lineup of symphonies, concertos and other major orchestral works. Meet Thomas Dausgaard, Seattle Symphony’s new music director 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

Korngold had an unrivaled ability to float a melody free, but his symphony sounds weary, burdened, at times even angry to be fighting its battles once again. Has the Time Come for a Long-Ignored Korngold Symphony? 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

One repeated note in the symphony was reminding us of the fungus that lay beneath us. Listening to the sounds of the woods 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

In recent years, Miller returned to his classical roots, appearing frequently as a guest conductor with symphony orchestras. Conductor Mitch Miller dies at age 99 2010-08-02T18:27:00Z

On Saturday, exactly 75 years later, the gifted young organist Christopher Houlihan performed Vierne’s six symphonies for solo organ at the Church of the Ascension in Greenwich Village, a marathon that took two concerts. Music Review: Christopher Houlihan at Church of the Ascension 2012-06-04T21:59:02Z

Taking on Beethoven’s nine symphonies in a concentrated marathon of concerts has long seemed almost a requisite undertaking for any conductor of stature — the ultimate public statement of artistic gravitas. Berlin Philharmonic’s Beethoven Marathon at Carnegie Prompts Some Head-Scratching 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

The extremity often employed in Tchaikovsky doesn’t, however, serve Beethoven’s symphonies. Gustavo Dudamel: An Introduction in 10 Recordings 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z

I've been going to the symphony there since my grandparents moved there 20 years ago. Seattle Symphony premieres Nico Muhly work 2012-01-23T19:12:04Z

Yet Sept. 5, her 150th birthday, will not be widely celebrated with performances of that pioneering symphony. Amy Beach, a Pioneering American Composer, Turns 150 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

Seattle Symphony audiences, however, will find no need for trepidation in this week’s premiere performances of David Lang’s very approachable new work, “symphony without a hero.” Seattle Symphony debuts David Lang’s new work in a program of hero and anti-hero 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

He achieved fine detail and seemed particularly attentive to recurring strains of other Mahler symphonies, making this work seem a more integral part of Mahler’s output than it often does. ArtsBeat: Mahler Megasymphony: The Onslaught 2012-02-19T18:26:18Z

And incorporating that arithmetic into his compositional process, his new symphony accordingly becomes their sonic analogue. Music Review: Beating the ‘Curse of the Ninth’ 2014-02-04T13:01:10Z

In Dvorák's "New World" Symphony, a noted nationalist Czech composer gave late 19th century Americans a few hints about how an "American" symphony should sound — reference "Hiawatha" and Beethoven's Ninth, but don't skimp on spirituals. L.A. Phil brings new 'New World' to Asia 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

At its Carnegie Hall premiere in 1893, Antonin Dvorak’s last symphony was hailed as a new dawn for music in the United States. Review: Douglas W. Shadle’s ‘Orchestrating the Nation’ 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

Where the symphony is a cataclysmic colloquy, the Quintet sounds like a single-minded expression of lament and loss. A guide to the music of Alfred Schnittke 2013-04-29T15:12:17Z

Designed for smaller spaces than today’s 2,500-seat symphony halls, this intimate and infinitely varied music is the purview of Seattle’s 29-year-old concert series, Gallery Concerts. Gallery Concerts’ ‘Strike the Viol’ presents two concerts of English music from the 1580s to the 1680s 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

The four-movement Ninth, which clocks in at around an hour and a half, is Mahler’s last completed symphony. Dudamel, LA Phil deliver a glowing night of Mahler 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

Both Bruckner’s symphony and “The Firebird” require a careful marshaling of forces so that the climactic moments late in the game really soar. Review: Under Salonen, the Philharmonia Orchestra Shines 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

It’s puzzling that this symphony continues to be overshadowed by its successors. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-04T21:59:54Z

But it was only with the Schubert symphony that Gilbert removed his interpretive gloves. The Music Academy of the West's grand adventure 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

By broad acceptance, symphonies — especially Sibelian ones — are abstract music ruled by a logic that refers to nothing but itself: an exercise in form and structure rather than the illustration of some extramusical idea. Music Review: Beating the ‘Curse of the Ninth’ 2014-02-04T13:01:10Z

That was far from the case in the 1970s, but Mr. Lewis found a way to create a symphony of sound at his fingertips. Don Lewis, Unsung Pioneer of Electronic Music, Dies at 81 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z

Mr. Glass, one of the most influential and prolific composers of operas, symphonies, chamber works and film scores, is now 78. Review: Philip Glass’s ‘Words Without Music’ Tells of a Life Full of Changes in Rhythm 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z

But it’s our job to teach them how to voice their desires in a tone that is a bit more classical symphony than punk rock. The art of saying no: How to raise kids to be polite, not pushovers 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

Already the most adventurous major symphony orchestra in the country, it has set its sights on being the most adventurous opera company too, with an enviable portfolio of new and recent works. Music Review: ‘Don Giovanni,’ Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel 2012-05-27T22:36:40Z

The two symphonies here demonstrated the Great Man’s enormous transformation in the 24 years between their premieres, but also how much of his late style was gestating in his youth. Review: Two Years Later, a Beethoven Cycle Reaches Its Finale 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

The society will participate in exhibits in New York and London featuring manuscript versions of Beethoven's last symphony which contains the "Ode to Joy" that has become a theme song for world peace and freedom. "Ode to Joy" for Royal Philharmonic Society's 200th 2012-11-07T14:53:10Z

When he wasn’t hiking or swimming, he would labor over songs and symphonies inside a small lakeside hut. Review: Mahler, Distilled by Classical Music’s Greatest Duo 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

The symphony was at least as energetic, hard-driven and exciting as the Berlioz. Mariss Jansons Leads the Bavarian in Berlioz and Shostakovich 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

The symphony is bursting with ideas that sound like no other composer, such as the honeyed melodies, the fairy-dancing scherzos and the build-up of energy to the flavorful bursting point. Generous renditions of Mendelssohn and Bach balance youth and experience 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

Dudamel made this an absolutely joyous symphony of swells, implying climaxes but never fully reaching them so that we could have the continual expectation of more. Mahler lives! Dudamel gives his most impressive performance yet with L.A. Phil 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

Some composers, she added, demand maturity — like Bruckner, whose symphonies she is studying now. A Conductor Considers Her Future 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

Though I love these scores, I wouldn’t go that far: Condescension endures toward Bernstein’s unabashedly theatrical symphonies. Not Just ‘West Side Story’: Celebrating Bernstein’s Symphonies 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

Or he could be Ridley Scott, conducting his team of actors and technicians in the bold atonal symphony that was the 1979 Alien. Prometheus: Alien Minus One 2012-06-05T13:20:45Z

His careful readings of Shostakovich's Fourth and Fifth symphonies represent the clearest possible refutation of the idea that music is a non-representational art form. The rest is power: classical music in the age of the dictatorship 2013-05-10T15:01:02Z

His story of color and silhouette built like a symphony. Perspective | Fashion commits many sins. It’s trying to redeem itself. 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

For listeners who have grown up hearing their Beethoven played by regular modern symphony orchestras, our performances will present some striking differences. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

Willimon A show is much more like jazz than it is a symphony. How to Make a TV Drama in the Twitter Age 2013-08-09T14:51:02Z

A Haydn symphony, No. 88, was on the program then, and Haydn figured again this time. Shaham's Mozart dazzles Seattle Symphony audience 2012-10-26T19:16:04Z

A symphony based on their album New Eyes will be unveiled. Culture Club to play orchestral gigs 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

But I’d been experimenting a lot with large scale things, like taking symphonies and slowing them way down to last eight hours. John Oswald on Plunderphonics, "Grayfolded" and audio collage 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

She said she hoped for a long-term association with the symphony, because its audience was "our crowd ... people who like art and music and alternative products." Colorado Symphony links up with pot industry 2014-04-30T13:28:15Z

Beyond the numbers, musicians play an outsize role in the cultural life of the nation — from symphony orchestras and operas to chamber music festivals; from Broadway pits to Nashville recording studios and national concert tours. A String Quartet Is Crushed by the Coronavirus 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z

Structured like a symphony, in five movements with pauses in between, the show begins with a column of light projected from the stage, panning very slowly across the darkened house. Review: A Cast of 87 Sounds a Climate Change Alarm 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z

The symphonies are substantial pieces – the First from 1861, lasts almost 70 minutes – in a style that seems closest to Mendelssohn and Schumann with just hints of Brahms and Wagner in the later works. Raff: Symphonies Nos 1 ? 11; Suites 2010-07-29T21:50:00Z

In this gentlest of Mahler’s symphonies, Alsop favored detail over form, episodic expression over structural insight. A reshuffled Baltimore Symphony Orchestra can’t quite fill the void after headliner’s exit

Like the Schumann, Brahms opens this symphony with a three-chord burst, but from there, it couldn’t do more to differ. With the NSO, French piano duo Katia and Marielle Labèque brew up a storm (and some stress) 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

Although three different recordings were released in the 1980s, the symphony had a limited audience until the Nonesuch album. How a Somber Symphony Sold More Than a Million Records 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

Here's a select list of what "Mozart" gets right and wrong about the rarefied world of symphony orchestras. 'Mozart in the Jungle': What it gets right and wrong about classical music 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

He celebrated Tom Petty, our small-town symphony orchestra, his Peace Corps experiences in Thailand from 1970 to 1972, cheap deals on gadgets at Big Lots, and Lydia, his beautiful Dutch Calvinist wife. The Time Capsule 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

All in all, it was a pretty good summer of armchair operas and symphonies. An Opera Lover Tests Streaming Services 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

He was a devout Catholic, and he had certain views of life that might not seem very modern, but — apart from dedicating his last symphony to his “beloved God” — they were not made explicit. There Are Three Versions of Bruckner’s Fourth. Why Choose? 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

The jewel of the building is the elegant 2,400-seat symphony hall, whose acoustic panels recall birds in flight. New Philharmonic takes wing above Paris periphery 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

And because there are no words attached to eight of his nine completed symphonies, he gets away with it, without endangering life and limb. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

The Seattle and Oregon symphonies’ solution: ask famed theater designer Michael Curry, whose work includes Broadway’s “Frozen” and “The Lion King,” to portray Stravinsky’s mythic tale using life-size puppets. Stravinsky’s ‘Persephone’ at Seattle Symphony goes big with puppets, dancers, singers and full orchestra 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

“With sparse dialogue and restrained drama, the film is a symphony of angles and glances, of colors and shadows.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Extinction — The Facts’ and ‘Hysterical’ 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z

Montreal’s cultural scene covers the spectrum, from circus troops and comedy festivals to theater in both English and French, the Montreal Opera, Grand Ballet and the symphony. 36 Hours in Montreal 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

He missed his symphony, he said, and he thinks the season is "going fabulously." French accent at SSO: Morlot to lead works by Ravel, Debussy, Dutilleux 2012-03-08T22:02:11Z

We're used to hearing the Messiah done by small baroque bands in church acoustics, so a symphony orchestra in a concert hall is at a disadvantage. RSNO/McGegan review 2011-01-05T21:46:00Z

A symphony orchestra that plays opera too, as in Dresden and Vienna, has an extra dimension of musical understanding that so many symphony orchestras don't have. Preview: Seattle Opera stages Wagner's influential 'Tristan und Isolde' 2010-07-25T04:46:00Z

Take George Frederick Bristow, whose five symphonies were written over 45 years. Review: Douglas W. Shadle’s ‘Orchestrating the Nation’ 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

The archives depict the mundane details of commissioning, scheduling, auditioning, hiring and ego massaging that go into running a symphony orchestra. Mahler Said What to Whom? 2011-02-03T22:00:06Z

It's notable also when several U.S. symphonies are embroiled in labor battles and will not be starting the season on time, or whose seasons are in jeopardy. Seattle Symphony opens season with Joshua Bell, former Gov. Dan Evans 2012-09-12T02:11:03Z

The program certainly conveyed a sense of familiarity; the little-known Schumann work was bookended by Mendelssohn’s “Reformation” symphony and Mozart’s “Jupiter” symphony, linking three staple names of the classical canon. Midori fails to sell little-known Schumann to NSO audience

He said he developed critical skills in the army band, namely honing a near-photographic memory for hundreds of symphonies that he transcribed note by note. Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor known for his subtle interpretations, dies at 80

The composer, however, died in 2010, leaving, it was believed, the symphony unfinished. Henryk Górecki's quirky, final major musical statement 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

The program began with a lean, lithe and elegantly shaped account of the Mozart symphony. Music Review: A Soundtrack for the Chaos, Light and Dark of Creation 2011-01-07T22:54:00Z

He conducts symphony orchestras, and he tours with a 12-piece vocal ensemble who play entirely improvised concerts. Bobby McFerrin gets vocal 2010-05-06T22:05:00Z

The Nutcracker Long Beach Ballet performs with a full symphony orchestra and guest dancers from Pacific Northwest Ballet. The week ahead in L.A. dance, Dec. 10-17: Moscow Ballet's 'Great Russian Nutcracker' and more 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

There are occasions in the symphony when you are not sure whether Mahler’s naivete is genuine or a tongue-in-cheek parody. A joyful evening of Wagner and Mahler from young maestros 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z

The opening work was a rarely heard Haydn symphony, No. 49, “La Passione.” NSO review: Despite the stellar guest soloist Bohórquez, consistency is lacking

He has booked the capital’s former symphony hall for at least a year. Bringing the Sistine Chapel to Life, With the Vatican’s Blessing 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

This performance of Boulez's Dérive 2 was one of my highlights of this year, part of the cycle of Beethoven symphonies and Boulez's music he played with his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra at the Proms. Barenboim at 70: five YouTube clips 2012-11-15T14:54:36Z

The ensemble, which won a Grammy Award for one of its acclaimed Sibelius recordings, is in the midst of recording a cycle of Mahler’s symphonies for Bis Records. Osmo Vanska, Risk-Taker With the Minnesota Orchestra, to Leave 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

The second symphony unfurls with an ease that becomes more disturbing as, from behind the wit and tunefulness, emerge flashes of heartbroken nostalgia and martial terror. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

This is Varèse's New World symphony, written shortly after he arrived in New York from Europe. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z

In the final concert on July 17th — which pairs Bruckner's 9th symphony with Adams' much-lauded Dr. Atomic Symphony, — concertgoers can determine for themselves if minimalism's grandfather and grandson share the same DNA. Bruckner's Second Act 2011-07-16T14:05:00Z

Sometimes they reek of plain old boredom — of legends, their Hall of Fame status assured, killing time between greatest-hits tours by knocking out a symphony. Jonny Greenwood, Radiohead?s Runaway Guitarist 2012-03-10T20:47:20Z

The symphony will also serve as a "Così" wrap-up when the "Linz" is repeated on last concerts of the orchestra's season. With Dudamel and Mozart, there's life in the old 'Linz' yet 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

The six organ symphonies, some of which last 45 minutes or more, are an acquired taste, and one I acquired for the first time hearing Houlihan's glowing, miraculously life-affirming performances. L.A. Philharmonic's organ series opener a celebration of firsts 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

Bruckner's critics — and many concertgoers at the time — were turned off by the use of repetition in his symphonies, in addition to the breadth and length of those works. Bruckner's Second Act 2011-07-16T14:05:00Z

The symphony’s outer movements exude world-weariness, if not always resignation. Music Review: A Fresh Face Confronts a Seasoned Mahler 2011-03-18T22:24:01Z

During rehearsals, my aim is always to try to ask for a style that is appropriate to each particular Beethoven symphony. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

Though it is worth hearing, even Casella knew that it was not his best work, later repudiating it and using only the Adagio, with minor alterations, in his second symphony. CD reviews: Noseda makes case for neglected Italian master 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

On Tuesday, a concert by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center will include a Haydn symphony. Review: The Joys of a Conductorless Chamber Performance 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

Under the reorganization plan, the 111-year-old symphony will shrink from 105 musicians to 95 and cut their pay by about 15 percent. Philadelphia Orchestra emerges from bankruptcy 2012-07-31T20:14:08Z

There is always a spirit beyond the notes in any Mahler symphony and that is a huge attraction for an artist. Son to conductor Stenz: "Don't mess it up, Dad" 2011-09-29T10:37:19Z

Shirley’s brother and nephew wondered why they hadn’t figured in the writing or the production of the film, calling it “a symphony of lies”, while Vallelonga’s son has a screenwriting credit. Mahershala Ali: ‘I had to protect myself from people’s fear of me’ 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z

Daniel Thomas Davis’s “Three-Winged Wisdom” began with close harmony in short, archaic-sounding phrases that expanded to longer breaths and seemed at one point to burst onto a sunlit field with a bird symphony at dawn. Review | Vocal trio ModernMedieval melds old and new 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

Kluger, a Pulitzer winner for his history of the cigarette industry, turns to fiction for the seventh time, producing a historical tale about Beethoven and a 10th symphony he never completed. New & Noteworthy 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

Following a critical reconsideration of Bruckner’s symphonies in the 1930s and ’40s, the second version, dating from 1880, became the standard. There Are Three Versions of Bruckner’s Fourth. Why Choose? 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

To use a musical analogy, it’s a tightly structured string quartet rather than a loose and expansive symphony. ‘Agostino,’ by Alberto Moravia

Here was a rare chance to follow the composer’s development and immerse yourself in these symphonies, performed by musicians who rightly claim the scores as part of their Russian heritage. Looking Back at ?Anna Nicole,? ?Griselda? and ?Don Giovanni? 2011-12-17T05:03:15Z

Then came Knussen's own pivotal third symphony, compact and powerful, a little too structurally contrived in some ways, but compellingly directed and awash with beauties, the BBC Symphony Orchestra responding to all the challenges. Prom 56: BBCSO/Knussen – review 2012-08-26T10:24:43Z

In his best Mahler performances Mr. Levine is uncommonly good at revealing the musical architecture of these teeming, fitful symphonies. Music Review: Michael Tilson Thomas Opens Tanglewood 2010-07-11T22:38:00Z

Among the participants in what the symphony calls the BSO Academy were Deborah Edge of Washington, a double-bassist and retired internist who works part time for an organization that helps the homeless. The ‘Campers’ of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 2012-07-15T06:43:04Z

Since announcing the season earlier this year you’ve added a few concerts to the schedule, including a complete cycle of Beethoven’s symphonies with Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra that was supposed to happen last year. Carnegie Hall Counts Down to Its Reopening 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

Some conductors would be content to open an orchestral season with Beethoven's Choral symphony and leave it at that. Philharmonia/Salonen – review 2012-09-28T11:49:31Z

The second half of the program was no less weighty: Brahms’s second symphony. A substitute leads a fine night at the NSO​ 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

Perhaps Mr. Welser-Möst intended to emphasize that this is an ingenious Classical era symphony, not just Beethoven’s attempt to depict scenes of nature. Review: The Cleveland Orchestra Plays Strauss With Abundant Color 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z

On Friday, Dudamel released a fervent new recording of the symphony with the Bolívars and an ardent Venezuelan youth chorus. The orchestral worlds of Los Angeles and Venezuela collide for Beethoven's Ninth at Disney Concert Hall 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

Classics like this symphony warrant not just recitation, but also repeated examination. Review: The Rising Star of Conducting Arrives in New York 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z

Composers also transcribed their predecessor’s music; Liszt created solo piano arrangements of all the Beethoven symphonies as well as numerous virtuosic opera transcriptions. Review: Emanuel Ax, at the Mostly Mozart Festival, Gives a 19th-Century Lesson 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

A great racket rises, like a symphony of a thousand hedge trimmers, from the South Lawn of the White House. Trump’s favorite venue for making news — or avoiding it — is right in front of the presidential chopper 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

The ability of the symphony to hold together as an ensemble, while their conductor... Rare Schubert gems sparkle in hands of Seattle Symphony 2012-03-23T19:01:04Z

But if museums, theaters and symphonies end up in free fall, it is basically up to them to cushion the impact. Arts groups in distress call on a former Kennedy Center president for help 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

Photograph: PA Adam Scovell is a writer and film-maker who runs celluloidwickerman.com In his ninth symphony, Beethoven put all of humanity into a piece of art. Clip joint: Beethoven's ninth symphony 2012-12-05T16:13:20Z

Beethoven’s symphonies don’t really need more than a chronological presentation. This Is How to Do a Beethoven Symphony Cycle 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

It takes a long time for the soloist to enter in Dvorak’s Cello Concerto: three and a half minutes of orchestral music with the force and sweep of a symphony. Review: The Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason Makes an Entrance 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

The orchestra may be the foundation of symphony performances. Search for Gerard Schwarz's successor at SSO is a broad-ranging and discreet one 2010-05-21T22:07:00Z

In her review, Bahr wrote that Mills “has a unique way of blending everyday banalities with cosmic questions and ideas to create lovely symphonies of humanity.” New this week: ‘Lost Daughter,’ NYE in Nashville, Boba Fett 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z

Mozart's 41 symphonies "are among the most brilliant symphonic works ever written", he says. The Proms are richer than ever – even without Mozart's symphonies 2012-07-26T17:30:01Z

The needs, though, of musicals and symphonies and ballet companies are profoundly intertwined with other amenities, like restaurants and hotels, being back in full swing, too. New York City can’t rebound without Broadway. And Broadway’s road back is uncertain. 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z

Tchaikovsky famously argued that the symphony dramatised the inescapable nature of destiny. Prom 53: GMJO/Davis ? review 2011-08-25T09:59:05Z

But it’s unlikely that American orchestras will bring to the celebration the fervor with which they once performed his sole symphony. What Happened to One of Classical Music’s Most Popular Pieces? 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

After Beethoven died, everyone was afraid of composing choral symphonies that would be compared to it. Seattle Symphony takes on Mendelssohn's ambitious 'Lobgesang' 2010-06-09T23:42:00Z

The chemistry between the Freiburg players and Mr. Heras-Casado, who used no baton and led the two symphonies from memory, is real, as the naturalness and exuberance of the performances on Thursday made clear. Music Review: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Plays at Mostly Mozart Festival 2012-08-10T23:23:32Z

This week, Blomstedt leads the New York Philharmonic in two symphonies that testify to the strength of the human will: Nielsen’s Fourth and Beethoven’s Fifth. A Conductor Brings Nearly a Century of Experience to Beethoven 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

If you want the technical details, though they aren't essential, it is a chord of the note A, stretching across seven octaves and played with quietly throbbing pregnancy by the strings of a symphony orchestra. If Blair absorbs me, Mahler's chord ousts him every time 2010-09-02T20:30:00Z

While many know Detroit more for Motown, its symphony is a storied one. Detroit Symphony Returns to a Giddy Reception 2011-04-10T22:10:58Z

Traverse City sits a few miles away from the Interlochen Center for the Arts, and it boasts a film festival, symphony orchestra and a museum with one of the world’s top collections of Inuit art. America’s Art Scenes Off the Beaten Track 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z

The "Linz" hasn't been exactly ignored — it was a favorite of Bernstein, Karajan and Walter — but it shows up less frequently on concerts and recordings these days than other well-known Mozart symphonies. With Dudamel and Mozart, there's life in the old 'Linz' yet 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

They did all nine in a day in Cheltenham in 2003, following their Beethoven experiment with complete surveys of Tchaikovsky's and Dvorak's symphonies in subsequent seasons. Move over Jack Bauer ... Brabbins gives Beethoven just 24 hours 2010-07-13T14:52:00Z

His symphonies — the Second and Fifth are exceptional — were among the first by a Russian composer. It Was Russia’s Most Popular Opera. Then It Disappeared. 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z