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Thierry Fischer Takes Utah Symphony to Carnegie Hall

The Utah Symphony and its music director, Thierry Fischer, are slated to celebrate the orchestra's 75th anniversary with a performance at Carnegie Hall in April 2016 in a concert.
By Shane Jordan

  • Stephen Hough Brings Schumann to New Jersey Orchestra

    The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (NJSO) presents Romantic masterworks from Schumann and Brahms, March 17-20 in Newark and New Brunswick. British born classical composer and pianist Stephen Hough performs Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in A Minor, while Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Liège Music Director Christian Arming is set to conduct a program that opens with Richard Wagner's Siegfried Idyll and closes with Johannes Brahms' Second Symphony.
    By Shane Jordan

  • Composer Esa-Pekka Salonen Leads Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    World renowned conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen is slated to lead the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in concert February 24-27 and March 1. The February 25, 26, 27 and March 1 concerts feature internationally acclaimed cellist and CSO Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant Yo-Yo Ma as soloist in Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 1, written by the composer for his friend, the virtuoso cellist Mstislav Rostropovich.
    By Shane Jordan