Carnegie Hall

Five questions for Toby Bozzuto

2013-06-01 15:09:00

Toby Bozzuto seemed headed for a career in the music industry. The son of Thomas S. Bozzuto, a founding partner of developer The Bozzuto Group, Toby Bozzuto interned for Blues Traveler in college, working in the band's management office in Carnegie...

Partnered with BSO, Parsons unveils new styles for musicians

2013-05-10 15:29:00

Violinist Ellen Pendleton Troyer has struggled for years with the constraints of wearing evening attire for physical, sometimes-strenuous performances. And she considers herself luckier than her male counterparts, who have a stricter dress code of bow...

Baltimore Symphony affirms its quality in Carnegie Hall concert

2013-05-08 09:53:00

The good news about the Spring For Music festival at Carnegie Hall is that it chooses American orchestras of all sizes to bring off-the-beaten-path programs to the nation's premier classical music showplace, and charges only $25 a seat. The bad news...

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, O'Malley make Carnegie Hall appearance

2013-05-06 18:06:00

NEW YORK -- Carnegie Hall put out the purple Monday night to welcome the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for the opening of Spring For Music, a week-long festival showcasing American orchestras playing adventurous programs. Ravens-colored cloths adorned...

Marin Alsop leads Baltimore Symphony in propulsive program

2013-05-03 15:02:00

If it has a good beat, you can count on Marin Alsop to conduct it with infectious energy. That point is being driven home by her latest program with the Baltimore Symphony, which has one more local performance before the orchestra takes it to Carnegie...

On the Record: Beethoven revitalized by ORR/John Eliot Gardiner

2013-01-04 09:21:00

In the grand scheme of themes, we have more than enough recordings of Beethoven symphonies. But there always seems to be room for one more. I would gladly clear a spot on an overstuffed CD shelf for a version of Beethoven's Fifth and Seventh...

Today's classical music comes to Columbia

2013-03-01 03:30:00

You can expect the music to sound fresh during the Leipzig String Quartet's concert on Saturday, March 2, at 8 p.m., in Howard Community College's Smith Theatre. Like the sponsoring Candlelight Concert Society, this chamber music quartet often likes to...

It's mulch season and St. Paul's is here to help [Highland/Fulton]

2013-02-27 06:58:00

Spring is just around the corner. One thing to think about is putting down fresh mulch. Randy Arndt, a parishioner at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Fulton, has announced the Men's Brotherhood annual spring mulch sale. The proceeds go to a college...

Mezzo Magdalena Kozena, pianist Yefim Bronfman give recital at Shriver Hall

2013-02-20 10:23:00

Vocal recitals are rare enough in Baltimore that even a program of familiar lieder would qualify as a novelty. A program of way-off-the-beaten-path songs? That's beyond cool. Magdalena Kozena, the high-profile, Czech mezzo-soprano, and her equally high-...

Harlem Quartet strings together old and new music

2013-01-31 10:11:00

Musical and cultural diversity are at the heart of what the Harlem Quartet is all about. The string ensemble brings an eclectic program to Columbia when it performs for the Candlelight Concert Society series on Saturday, Feb. 2, at 8 p.m., at Howard...

Barbara Cook is still glowing at 85

2012-10-29 08:16:00

Barbara Cook approaches a song from the inside out, judging the weight of each measure, the point behind each word in a lyric. So when she sings, she starts from a place where there's nothing but truth. No artifice, no exaggeration, no self-aggrandizing...

Shirley Reingold, manager of vocal group The Orioles

2012-10-18 13:17:25

Shirley Reingold, who managed the early R&B vocal group The Orioles and wrote their 1948 hit song "It's Too Soon to Know," died of heart disease Oct. 10 at Aventura Hospital in Aventura, Fla. The native Baltimorean was 89. She was known professionally as...

Carnegie Hall in Lewisburg, W. Va.

2013-06-04 00:00:00

Seventy-five years ago, clarinet virtuoso Benny Goodman shook up the music world with a historic concert at Carnegie Hall, bringing jazz into a bastion of "highbrow" art.

2013-05-30 10:16:00

Carnegie Hall during Spring For Music festival

2013-05-08 10:05:00