Marin Alsop

Russian conductor Dima Slobodeniouk makes BSO debut

2013-03-23 13:35:00

On Friday night, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s gave, note for note, one of the most thoroughly absorbing and emotionally powerful performances of an all-Russian program since the glory days of all-Russian programs with former music director...

Organist Felix Hell showcased in Baltimore Symphony's French program

2013-03-18 07:58:00

When Meyerhoff Symphony Hall was built back in the early 1980s, there was space for a proper pipe organ to be installed, which would have made the facility even more valuable. Too bad there wasn’t any money. Since then, the Baltimore Symphony...

Baltimore Symphony announces 2013-14 season

2013-03-01 10:33:00

There’s a light and dark theme running through the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s 2013-2014 season, which includes works dealing with great loss, as well as great compassion. “Sometimes through tragedy, whether a world war or a...

The Baltimore Symphony delivers vivid Wagner program

2013-02-20 10:46:00

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra chose some of Richard Wagner’s most radiant and involving music for a program this weekend to mark the composer’s bicentennial year. The results were pretty radiant, too, Friday night at Meyerhoff Symphony...

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...

A genius and an anti-Semite, Wagner

2013-02-09 00:00:00

It takes little effort to find severe problems with the character of Richard Wagner, the man who was born two centuries ago and, as he was the first to acknowledge, became one of history's greatest composers. It's much harder to dismiss his music, which...

J. Ernest Green's 'Voices of Light' resonate brilliantly

2012-11-15 13:04:29

J. Ernest Green's masterful conducting of the Annapolis Chorale, Chamber Orchestra and soloists in two performances of Richard Einhorn's "Voices of Light," an oratorio set to Carl Dreyer's 1928 silent film "The Passion of Joan of Arc," brought a unique...

Tough times for the BSO

2012-10-22 03:00:00

A report last week that the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is anticipating a deficit of $750,000 or more for the fiscal year that began in September is a reminder that the effects of the 2008 recession are still reverberating through the state's nonprofit...

Columbia Orchestra kicks off season with Bernstein and Beethoven

2012-10-04 06:19:00

You don't have to venture farther into the alphabet than the letter "B" to discover the bulk of the Columbia Orchestra's 35th season-opening concert on Saturday, Oct. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Jim Rouse Theatre at Wilde Lake High School. Symphonic giants from...

BSO to perform Bernstein's 'Kaddish'

2012-09-24 13:33:00

Leonard Bernstein, the brilliant American conductor and composer, did not just wear his heart on his sleeve. All his worries were clearly exposed as well. This comes through in many of his compositions, where there's a palpable sense of struggle —...

Dennis C. Kain, BSO timpanist

2012-09-19 14:37:20

Dennis C. Kain, longtime Baltimore Symphony Orchestra principal timpanist, whose career spanned more than four decades, died Saturday of colon cancer at his Hamilton home. He was 73. "Dennis was not only a wonderful musician and timpanist, but also a...

PBS show shines light on BSO's OrchKids

2012-09-16 11:35:00

Baltimore figures substantially in "Arts and the Mind," a two-hour documentary airing on PBS stations around the country. There is a good amount of airtime for OrchKids, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's ambitious music education program launched by...

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra music director Marin Alsop.

2013-03-01 00:00:00

From the BSO: "Our fearless leader is plotting a big #Baltimore victory over the @49ers & the @SFSymphony this weekend! Go @Ravens

2013-01-29 07:17:00

The BSO's first commercial Mahler recording holds up firmly in a crowded field.

2012-11-20 00:00:00