Opera Wire • July 3, 2020 Doctoral Student Documents the Life and Career of Metropolitan Opera Flutist Trudy Kane The life story of a notable instrumentalist in the opera world has been documented by a rising musician who learned from her.
MET Orchestra Musicians • November 15, 2017 Timpanist Jason Haaheim on Interpretation Interpretation is tricky. Just as singers develop interpretations of their characters, and conductors of the score as a whole, instrumentalists within the orchestra must decide how to play their individual parts. But, given that conductors ask instrumentalists to play their parts a certain way, how does an instrumentalist’s interpretation of the score fit with a conductor’s interpretation? How much of a say does the instrumentalist have in how the music ends up being played?
MET Orchestra Musicians • October 4, 2017 David Chan: The Met and Montclair David Chan’s schedule is about to become much busier. This fall, the MET Orchestra’s Concertmaster is excited to take on a second leadership role as he becomes Music Director of the newly formed Montclair Orchestra in New Jersey, the first time in his career that he will be a music director.
MET Orchestra Musicians • May 17, 2017 Tristan Comes to Life Two parallel histories involving Pedro Díaz, an oboe and English horn player in the MET Orchestra, and Fox Products, an Indiana-based manufacturer of professional and student double reed instruments, have overlapped to benefit Pedro, Fox, and current and future English horn players.
Symphony • July 1, 2010 Open House: When Orchestras Invite the Public to Rehearsals There are no tuxedos and no footlights onstage as the sounds of Stravinsky's The Firebird fill Chicago's Symphony Hall.
Northeast Ledger • October 24, 2007 Rachmaninoff and Belhaven Prof to Take Center Stage Even though it's not a Valentine's Day concert, the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra will offer three versions of romance on Saturday.
William Grant Still Music Northeast Ledger • October 10, 2007 Symphony Honors Composer Three university choirs from across the state will join Music Director Crafton Beck and the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra to celebrate the life and music of William Grant Still, born in Woodville in 1895 and considered the dean of African American composers.
Ri Butov from Pixabay Northeast Ledger • October 3, 2007 Leopard Holds the Key to All of the Symphony's Music In the back of the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra's office in the Mississippi Arts Center is a rectangular room where nearly 20 file cabinets line the walls. Each drawer contains 30 to 40 large brown envelopes, and each envelope--devoted to one piece of music--contains the musicians' scores.
Northeast Ledger • April 11, 2007 American Performers, Music Unite in MSO Finale Talk about variety: The United States Bicentennial, an Italian opera, the Bible, and an outlaw in the Old West inspired the four American works that the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra will perform Friday.
Northeast Ledger • January 10, 2007 Symphony Presents "A Dazzling Night" As it continues a season filled with beloved works from the Romantic era, the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra will present a program of French and Russian pieces on Saturday.
Northeast Ledger • October 4, 2006 Get Hooked on Classics: MSO Pairs the Masters for Second Bravo Concert They're probably the two most recognized composers in classical music, and they're both on the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra's program...Beethoven's uplifting Leonore Overture No. 3 and Symphony No. 7, with Mozart's popular Clarinet Concerto in the middle.
Hattiesburg American • May 19, 2006 Program Brings Art of Orchestra to Local Classrooms School met symphony Thursday as students from nine Mississippi schools had the opportunity to perform with the University of Southern Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jay Dean.
Michael Dziedzic on Unsplash The Continuo • August 21, 2005 Symphony Season Opens with Jones' Canyon Symphony, Born in the Subconscious A Mississippi native is coming home, again.
The Continuo • November 22, 2004 Behind the Scenes with the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra's New Concertmaster The audience in Thalia Mara Hall on October 30, 2004, got the first glimpse of the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra's new concertmaster, Marta Kirk.
