Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

Esther R. Levin, women's rights advocate

2014-01-31 15:01:00

Esther R. Levin, who spent her life fighting for women's rights, died Jan. 26 of Alzheimer's disease at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She was 88. The daughter of Frank J. Rubenstein, an insurance consultant, and Mary Rubenstein,a homemaker, the former...

BSO will make 'Carnival of Animals'come alive for Halstead, Pleasant Plains first-graders [Loch Raven]

2014-01-29 04:20:00

First-grade students at Halstead Academy and Pleasant Plains Elementary schools are eagerly awaiting a field trip to the Meyerhoff in February where they will see a performance of "Carnival of Animals." Their excitement might be intensified by reports...

Jack Everly to step in for Marin Alsop as conductor for BSO's Chaplin film program

2014-01-28 15:20:00

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra music director Marin Alsop has canceled her scheduled appearances this week with the ensemble. Her mother, a cellist who spent several decades in the New York City Ballet Orchestra, died late last week in upstate New York at...

OrchKids appears to lack diversity [Letter]

2014-01-28 05:15:00

Regarding the recent article on the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's OrchKids program, while Dan Trahey may see a metaphorical connection between society an orchestra, what is striking about the photographs of his class is their homogeneity ("Dan Trahey...

John Weber, tenor

2014-01-25 11:43:00

John Weber, a tenor who sang in opera productions and was the music director of a Rodgers Forge church, died of an apparent heart attack Jan. 17. The Catonsville resident was 50. His brother, Thomas Proveaux, said Mr. Weber collapsed at the wheel of his...

Dan Trahey helps make OrchKids a national model for helping disadvantaged kids

2014-01-25 17:53:00

Dan Trahey plays the tuba. He's played it all his life, and he takes his instrument with him everywhere, even though it's been years since he's performed regularly with an orchestra. Trahey's affinity for the unwieldy, decidedly uncool contraption says...

BSO offers tribute to Marvin Hamlisch

2014-01-24 08:28:00

Orchestras these days like to put titles on programs, which usually means a dash of the cute, the trite or the hyperbolic. But the title given to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's SuperPops offering this weekend strikes just the right note —...

BSO players offer lyrical program for Chamber Music by Candlelight

2014-01-22 11:43:00

Ordinarily, I would never think of being out on Sunday nights during "Downton Abbey" season, but I made an exception last weekend in order to catch an appealing program on the Chamber Music by Candlelight series at Second Presbyterian Church. (Of course,...

BSO delivers stylish Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven with Denk, Xie, McGegan

2014-01-18 05:58:00

The sacred triumvirate of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven accounts for a crucial portion of what we call classical music, so there are plenty of reasons to program works by all three men on the same evening. There is also a risk of taking such material for...

OrchKids gets $1 million gift from Robert Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker

2014-01-17 16:45:00

OrchKids, the program that puts musical instruments into the hands of Baltimore schoolchildren, announced Friday that it is receiving a $1 million gift that will allow it to double the number of students it serves. The donation from Robert E....

Catonsville Fab Lab adds dimension to digital fabrication

2014-01-14 06:26:00

The din coming from the high-tech Fab Lab in the HTEC building on the Catonsville campus of the Community College of Baltimore County was nearly deafening last week. � Under the watchful eyes of Jason Hughes protected by safety glasses, a silvery...

BSO premieres Leshnoff's Guitar Concerto, revisits Dvorak's 'New World'

2014-01-10 12:51:00

With the new year underway, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is focusing on the New World. This weekend's program offers music by two Americans and a visitor to America, music from very different eras, but with a pulsing lyricism in common. Things got...

Celebrate 007's 50th birthday as a Hollywood leading man with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, as conductor Michael Krajewski leads this musical showcase of the best of Bond. Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, 1212 Cathedral St. 410-783-8000 or bsomusic.org.

1997-06-10 00:00:00

Conductor Marin Alsop leads the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in "Joan of Arc at the Stake," a rare oratorio inspired by the French saint (pictured, as portrayed by Milla Jovovich in "The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

1999-11-11 00:00:00

Two Tinseltown classics, Walt Disney's "Fantasia" (April) and Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times" (May) will be shown, backed by a live performance of the score by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, 1212 Cathedral St. 410-783-8000 or bsomusic.org.

1999-12-27 00:00:00