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Joseph Young Named First BSO-Peabody Conducting Fellow
Release Date: Monday, April 02, 2007
South Carolina native receives two-year fellowship modeled after American Symphony Orchestra League program, and highlighted
by unique training with BSO and mentor Marin Alsop, academic scholarship to Peabody Institute and Johns Hopkins University.
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Beatlemania Hits Baltimore, November 23-25
Release Date: Friday, November 09, 2007
Original members of the Broadway sensation Beatlemania will perform live in concert with the BSO SuperPops! This thrilling
Beatles retrospective features chart-topping tunes by the Fab Four, complete with original arrangements.
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Baltimore Symphony, Soulful Symphony, Morgan State University Choir Unite to Celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Tuesday,
January 15
Release Date: Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Hosted by Soulful Symphony founder Darin Atwater, the concert celebrates the life and legacy of the great civil rights leader. Presented in cooperation with Maryland’s Commission on African American History and Culture, this year’s tribute features arrangements by Dr. Nathan Carter (1936-2004), the renowned Maryland arts leader and long-time music director of the Morgan State University Choir (MSU).
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Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Achieves Balanced Budget
Release Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2008
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra today announced its first balanced budget in five years for the fiscal year ending August
31, 2007 (2006-2007 concert season), posting an operating surplus of $4,000, before non-cash expenses, transfers and pension-related
accounting charges. The Orchestra also recently received another piece of good news from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
which has awarded the Baltimore Symphony a $550,000 grant to support artistic and access initiatives during the 2007-2008
and 2008-2009 seasons.
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Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Announces 2008-2009 Season
Release Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Music Director Marin Alsop and President and CEO Paul Meecham today announced via live webcast the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s 2008-2009 season, Marin Alsop’s second season since assuming the podium as Music Director in September 2007. A major theme of the BSO’s new season will be a commemoration of the life and work of Maestra Alsop’s iconic musical mentor, Leonard Bernstein, on the occasion of what would have been the composer-conductor’s 90th birthday. Significant works by Bernstein, including his Mass and Symphony No. 1, “Jeremiah,” will be paired with the symphonies of another legendary composer-conductor, Gustav Mahler.
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Baltimore Symphony Performs Works by John Corigliano, Beethoven’s “Eroica,” April 17-19
Release Date: Monday, March 17, 2008
Corigliano’s works will include his Piano Concerto, featuring pianist William Wolfram, and To Music, conducted by Mei-Ann Chen. Ms. Chen, who makes her BSO debut with these concerts, is the 2007 winner of the Taki Concordia Conducting Fellowship (TCCF), founded by Maestra Alsop in 2002 to promote the careers of young female conductors.
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Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Marin Alsop Announce 2009-2010 Season
Release Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2009
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Marin Alsop announced today the Orchestra’s 2009-2010 season, the third full season under the direction of Maestra Alsop. The 2009-2010 season is a pastiche of musical influences from around the world and from within local communities. In this dramatic season, the concert programs are generated by Marin Alsop’s mission to encourage audiences to explore their own musical roots and pay tribute to the diverse heritages found in the Baltimore-Washington area.
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Baltimore Symphony Adds 10th Performance of Holiday Spectacular Due to Popular Demand
Release Date: Monday, October 05, 2009
Rivaling the glitz and glamour of a New York City production, BSO Principal Pops Conductor Jack Everly will lead the BSO and Tony-nominated host and vocalist Ann Hampton Callaway, the Capitol Quartet, bass-baritone Daniel Okulitch and more than 150 other entertainers in 10 performances of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s fourth annual Holiday Spectacular, December 18-23 at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall.
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Baltimore Symphony Associates Host Annual Fundraiser,“Symphony Homes for the Holidays,” Dec. 10-12
Release Date: Thursday, November 05, 2009
Each year, homeowners of historic and elegant homes throughout the greater-Baltimore region loan the use of the first floor to be decorated by local professional floral designers and talented amateur garden club members. The event also features specialty gifts sold at the boutique, located at the tour’s start point. Proceeds benefit the BSO’s education programs.
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Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Announces 2010 Summer Season at Meyerhoff, Strathmore, Oregon Ridge and Pier Six
Release Date: Wednesday, May 05, 2010
The season begins with Baltimore’s favorite Fourth of July tradition: The Star-Spangled Spectacular at Oregon Ridge Park, which this year features special guest, Baltimore Orioles game announcer Rick Dempsey. Summer with the BSO also includes a Broadway program at Oregon Ridge, a multimedia adventure through the BBC and Discovery Channel’s award-winning Planet Earth Live, a tribute to Michael Jackson, the music of the Eagles at Pier Six and works by Frank Zappa and Philip Glass in a program also featuring Baltimore beatboxer, Shodekeh.
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Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Performs Gershwin’s American Classic, Porgy and Bess in Concert, July 22
Release Date: Monday, June 28, 2010
Originally scheduled in February but cancelled due to inclement weather, Music Director Marin Alsop will finally lead guest vocalists Indira Mahajan, Alison Buchanan, Larry Hylton, Derrick Parker, the D.C.-based Heritage Signature Chorale and the BSO on Thursday, July 22 at 7:30 p.m. at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess in Concert.
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Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Performs Broadway Favorites at Oregon Ridge, July 24
Release Date: Wednesday, July 07, 2010
The evening includes music from George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, Richard Rodgers and Andrew Lloyd Webber and favorites like “I Could Have Danced All Night” from My Fair Lady,“ Music of the Night” from The Phantom of the Opera and "Bring Him Home" from Les Misérables. A grand fireworks display will end the evening.
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Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Performs East Coast Premiere of Dave and Chris Brubeck’s Ansel Adams: America
Release Date: Wednesday, January 06, 2010
The concert will feature the East Coast premiere of BSO co-commission Ansel Adams: America, a multi-media work created by American jazz pianist Dave Brubeck and his son, composer Chris Brubeck that celebrates Adams’ stunning photography of the early American West. The program also includes Hindemith’s Symphony Mathis der Maler, which is inspired by an altarpiece by the 16th-century painter Mathis Grünewald, and Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, as orchestrated by Maurice Ravel.
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Enchantment Theatre Company Joins the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra to bring Arabian Nights to Life, March 6
Release Date: Monday, January 25, 2010
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Enchantment Theatre Company, under the direction of Assistant Conductor and League of American Orchestras Conducting Fellow Mei-Ann Chen, will perform the fantastic tales of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade (based on Arabian Nights) as part of the BSO Family Concert Series on Saturday, March 6 at 11:00 a.m. at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. The production also includes excerpts from Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor, Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld and Mussorgsky’s dramatic favorite Night on Bald Mountain.
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Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Announce 2010-2011 Season
Release Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010
The 2010-2011 season celebrates Gustav Mahler’s double jubilee, recognizing the 150th anniversary of his birth and the centennial of his death. Mahler’s works are closely associated with themes of youth and the innocence of childhood, prompting the BSO to create a season that highlights today’s rising young stars and that features the earlier works of several seminal composers.
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