The world-class concert venue will celebrate its birthday with concerts featuring the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Tony Bennett and George Benson. full story ![]()
Scriabin’s splurge of orchestral exuberance played by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Andris Nelsons. Plus Webern, Messiaen and...
thetimes.co.uk (23 days ago)
So what’s so frightening about Britten and Sibelius? Symphony Hall was only sparsely populated when the crack team of Ilan...
thetimes.co.uk (3 months and 7 days ago)
It’s all happening in Birmingham. Last weekend 22,000 dogs trotted their stuff at Crufts. This weekend the Flying Dutchman arrived,...
thetimes.co.uk (2 months and 3 days ago)

Since Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons was appointed the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s music director in 2008, he has become hot property: at 34, he’s already touted as Simon Rattle’s successor with the Berlin Philharmonic. London rarely sees him with his Birmingham orchestra, but at home they’ve scored notable successes in Strauss and Beethoven: the very...
standard.co.uk (2 months and 17 days ago)
Britten’s Spring Symphony is at present somewhat less elusive than spring itself. Last month in Birmingham, this month in London:...
thetimes.co.uk (2 months and 30 days ago)

The symphony's principal oboist dies Thursday after suffering a brain hemorrhage and collapsing on stage over weekend at Davies Symphony Hall.
contracostatimes.com (2 months and 20 days ago)
William Bennett, 56. the principal oboist for the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, collapsed onstage in mid-performance Saturday night, suffering a brain hemorrhage at Davies Symphony Hall. The longtime member of the symphony was listed in "guarded condition" Sunday at a local hospital.
contracostatimes.com (2 months and 23 days ago)
Bologna-costumed demonstrators tonight will hand out bologna sandwiches to event attendees and perform remix of the Oscar Mayer “Baloney” song at Boston Symphony Hall.The post A bunch of baloney: Sandwich-wielding seniors, workers to protest at Boston Symphony Hall appeared first on Metro.us.
metro.us (2 months and 28 days ago)

Opening a three-concert visit to Carnegie Hall on Wednesday, the Boston Symphony Orchestra featured works it had originally commissioned from Hindemith and Bartok.
nytimes.com (1 month and 12 days ago)

Beethoven and Bruckner contrast starkly in this performance by the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Hall, writes Ivan Hewett.
telegraph.co.uk (2 months and 30 days ago)
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