Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

Midweek Madness snaps into 'West Side Story' mood

2013-06-12 07:09:00

Fresh on the heels of performing 'Carmina Burana,' which inspired one of the drollest entries yet in Midweek Madness, if Midweek Madness does say so itself, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is about to play a live soundtrack for screenings of the 1961...

Hearing the voice behind 'West Side Story'

2013-06-08 00:00:00

UPDATE: This just in on June 13, 2013: Marni Nixon has had to cancel her scheduled appearance with the Baltimore Symphony this week due to what a press release from the orchestra describes as "a sudden temporary illness."� Read more on the Artsmash blog....

Dr. Martin Helrich

2013-06-07 10:55:00

Dr. Martin Helrich, a pioneering anesthesiologist who had headed the department of anesthesiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, died Sunday of complications from heart disease at his Pikesville home. He was 91. "Martin was so...

Joseph S. Eubanks

2013-06-06 00:00:00

Joseph S. Eubanks, a noted bass-baritone and Morgan State University music professor who performed with the first American company of "Porgy and Bess," which toured the world in the 1950s, died May 16 of renal failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson....

Edward Weiss

2013-06-07 20:22:56

Edward Henry Weiss, a retired marketing executive who put the name Wacky Noodle on a children's flotation device used in swimming pools, died of a stroke Monday at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The Timonium resident was 74. Born in Brooklyn,...

Midweek Madness raises its mug to 'Carmina Burana'

2013-06-05 07:02:00

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is trotting out "Carmina Burana" for its next program, excuse enough for Midweek Madness to hoist a few brewskis in the general direction of Carl Orff's indestructible cantata (not that Midweek Madness ever indulges in...

Film composer John Williams to make Baltimore conducting premiere

2013-06-01 00:00:00

John Williams has won just about everything there is to win in the music industry, including a slew of Grammys, Golden Globes, Emmys and no less than five Academy Awards — his record of 48 Oscar nominations is second only to Walt Disney. If the...

Verdi, Puccini, Poulenc for 2013-2014 season at the Lyric

2013-05-10 09:40:00

The 2013-2014 opera season at the Modell Performing Arts Center at The Lyric will have a lot in common with the 2012-2013 season -- staged works by Verdi and Puccini produced by Lyric Opera Baltimore, with a concert in between. There is something...

Bel Air honors Harford Day students

2013-05-09 13:49:00

The members of the Bel Air Board of Town Commissioners honored two Harford Day School students Monday for their dedication to the arts, their studies and the community. Avery Riedel and Klia Trintis, both eighth-graders, received Student Achievement...

Carlos Kalmar makes welcome return to BSO podium

2013-05-24 08:17:00

If you missed Thursday night's Baltimore Symphony Orchestra concert at Meyerhoff Hall -- and, based on a glance around the room, a whole heckuva lot of you missed it -- there's another chance Friday (Strathmore gets the program Saturday). It's time well...

HCC students design nursery for show house

2013-05-24 09:57:40

The Harford Community College ASID Interior Design Student Chapter designed a nursery in the 37th Annual Baltimore Symphony Decorators' Show House that was open to the public for three weeks in May. This year's Show House, a five-bedroom stucco Colonial...

Lyric Opera Baltimore salutes Verdi bicentennial with 'Rigoletto'

2013-05-16 15:29:00

The opera world has been giving a little extra attention to a couple of giants born in 1813, Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner. Locally, that bicentennial salute has included memorable concerts by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra featuring excerpts from...

Jack Everly leads the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the vocal groups Spectrum and Radiance in a concert of Motown classics by the Temptations, Aretha Franklin, the Supremes and many more. • Event information:

2013-05-21 00:00:00

Verdi's "Rigoletto" celebrates its bicentennial with two performances featuring the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at the Lyric on May 17 and 19. • Event information:

2013-04-19 00:00:00

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra music director Marin Alsop.

2013-03-01 00:00:00