Orchestral Music

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Glimpse 2012 - Arts District - 10/19/12

Glimpse 2012 Arts District Friday, October 19 After seeing the Dallas Chamber Symphony perform at Dallas City Performance Hall about a month ago, I started wondering who their audience was. Is it patrons who are already going to the see the Dallas Symphony Orchestra? Younger folks who want to enjoy ... More >>

The Overserved, Black Tie Edition

Well, sugars. I hope you took advantage of the karmic energy being passed around town this weekend. Saturday was perhaps the most beautiful day of all time and space and had Dallas in the best mood I have ever seen. The scene was set, whether you found yourself tapping out kegs at Spune's inaugural ... More >>

Dirk Nowitzki Announces Musical America Conductor of the Year, Jaap van Zweden

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra's Musical Director Jaap van Zweden is a powerhouse. He was recently named Musical America Conductor of the Year 2012 -- a first for our fair city. While it was advertised that Mayor Mike Rawlings and "other surprise Dallas-area notables" would gather to celebrate his a ... More >>

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra So Played The Legend of Zelda

All photos by Taryn WalkerMore photos from a night of epicness below​The Dallas Symphony Orchestra Plays The Legend of Zelda Music The Meyerson Symphony Center Tuesday, January 10 Better Than: Playing the games in 1998. Also, the childish "in your face, in your face!" chant I'm going to throw ... More >>

On Heels of Report About Pending Insolvency, Dallas Symphony Announces New "Action Plan"

​I was about to write up a little something about the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's "new business plan," announced via press release moments ago, when I espied this report from KERA's Jerome Weeks, which says that the DSO will tap out its line of credit by February at the latest and is nearing insol ... More >>

As Dallas Symphony "Struggles" to Balance Art and Economy, Musicians Get a New Deal

​The Dallas Symphony Orchestra has spent the last year trying to balance its books and fill its coffers, going so far as to launch last fall The Great Orchestra Campaign intended to raise a quick $50 million. The process continues: Per a press release dispatched by the DSO today, management has "c ... More >>

Over The Weekend: D'Drum Performs Stewart Copeland's "Gamelan D'Drum" with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra at the Meyerson

D'Drum with the Dallas Symphony OrchestraMorton H Meyerson Symphony CenterFebruary 5, 2011Better than: Getting hit by the ice falling off Cowboys StadiumAll photos by Mike AlvesD'Drum​There were no Packers or Steelers fans at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center on Saturday night, the night befo ... More >>

Stewart Copeland's Probably Not Happy About The Snow Either, as DSO Postpones Premiere

Stewart Copeland and D'Drum will have to try again tomorrow night.​The Dallas Symphony Orchestra was all prepared to spend three days debuting Gamelan D'Drum, the percussion concerto written by Police drummer Stewart Copeland and featuring D'Drum, along with the DSO. But Thursday night's performan ... More >>

Stewart Copeland's Career Has Evolved From Police Duty to Drum Symphonies.

Extended Q&A: Former Police Drummer Stewart Copeland Talks Symphonies, Drumming and What It's Like Telling Sting to Fuck Off

This Friday and Saturday night, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra will perform "Gamelan D'Drum," a concert percussion piece written by Stewart Copeland. The former drummer of The Police was specifically commissioned to write the concerto for the Dallas Symphony in conjunction with the local drum ensembl ... More >>

DSO Sets To Debut Stewart Copeland's New Percussion Concerto in Early February

Stewart Copeland​Well, Super Bowl weekend is just getting busier and busier -- although, in this case, a recently announced, very cool event just seems to be the beneficiary of convenient scheduling. Starting on Thursday, February 3, and running through Saturday, February 5, the Dallas Symphony Or ... More >>

Don't Drop The Violin, Dude

Jaap It Up

Audi, Y'all: AT&T PAC's Lexuses to Get Company Courtesy the New DSO Sponsor

​It's no secret the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the AT&T Performing Arts Center are "facing some financial challenges," as AT&TPAC chair Howard Hallam told Unfair Park a few weeks ago, following the resignation of president and CEO Mark Nerenhausen. Not long after Nerenhausen turned in h ... More >>

Classical Gas Attack: After DSO President's Abrupt Adios, a Native Gets the Baton

EDallas Symphony OrchestraDoug Adams, left, with film composer James Newton Howard​arlier this afternoon, Dallas Symphony Orchestra president Doug Adams told Dallas Morning News classical music critic Scott Cantrell why he's leaving within the next 30 days: "I've been trapped in a real estate deal ... More >>

The Fort Salutes

Marvin Hamlish to Lead the Pops, While Stewart Copeland Gets His Date With DSO

Marvin Hamlish​After the jump you'll find the entirety of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's 2010-2011 season schedule -- including everything from Marvin Hamlisch's debut as pops conductor in August to the Classical Series' bow in early September to Liza Minnelli in October to the Masters of Film Mu ... More >>

From Swelter To Snow

Jaap Van Zweden, a "Face to Watch"

​Says one baton-lovin' Friend of Unfair Park, Dallas Symphony Orchestra music director Jaap van Zweden received some early New Year's best-wishes courtesy the Los Angeles Times, which named him a classical-music "face to watch" in the coming year. Writes Mark Swed of the conductor unknown to local ... More >>

Like Glee, If It Was Set in Carrollton In '74

​Waiting on a call back from Steve Leach, the so-called "buy guy" at Half Price Books, about something entirely unrelated to this point. But, to kill a little time, let me share with you a couple of items I picked up at the Northwest Highway mothership Sunday morning and converted from vinyl to di ... More >>

An Arresting Development as Police Drummer Finishes Concerto for D'Drum and the DSO

Stewart Copeland​Maybe you missed this when we posted it the first time around -- back in, um, June 2007, when the Police played the American Airlines Center. So, from March '79, here's the band performing (kind of) "The Yellow Rose of Texas" at the original Palladium. (Can't believe that link's s ... More >>

In The Mood

Songs in the Grass

UNT Professor Earns Top Composition Honor

UNT Professor Cindy McTee Congratulations are in order for University of North Texas professor Cindy McTee this afternoon, as McTee has won this year's Detroit Symphony Orchestra Elaine Lebenbom Memorial Award for Female Composers, which each year is dolled out to one living female composer for, wel ... More >>

In Dutch with Jaap van Zweden

A classical-music outfit from the Netherlands has just posted this profile of Dallas Symphony Orchestra music director Jaap van Zweden. Alas, it's in Dutch, which, oddly, only makes it that much more compelling. But the opening few seconds are in full-on Texan. --Robert Wilonsky

The Popular W.

See Michael W. Smith at the Meyerson

Working with the DSO Has Exceeded Jaap van Zweden's Expectations

To Hear Jaap van Zweden Play Violin for the "Final" Time, It'll Cost Ya

Woodwind Witches

'Tis the Season

Get jolly with the FWSO

Sexy Time

See top-notch Tango at the Majestic

Stairway to Cowtown

FWSO rocks out with their hollyhocks out

Wind Beneath My Screens

Heaven Sent

Smith celebrates J.C. and co.

Before the Fourth

Options for pre-holiday festivities

Before the Fourth

Options for pre-holiday festivities

Before the Fourth

Options for pre-holiday festivities

Farewell, Maestro

The DSO honors Litton

Bang the Drum

Star Sounds

The DSO goes celestial

Survival of the Fittest

A toast to endurance

I Heart Lily

Tomlin's funny, from screen to stage

String Along

Violinist Gil Shaham performs

Cacophony

Plano Symphony Orchestra faces discord over pay and job requirements for its musicians

Events for the week

The soul of the land

For classicist Pepe Romero, it's feelings, not notes

Virtual DSO

A new recording technology is music to Andrew Litton's ears