Marin Alsop

Baltimore Symphony prepares for West Coast tour

2012-03-26 06:15:00

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will be jetting to the West Coast this week for a six-day, three-city tour — its first extended outing since Marin Alsop was named music director five years ago. The tour, which begins Wednesday, opens with a...

Peabody composer wins Pulitzer Prize in music

2012-04-16 18:17:00

Kevin Puts, a composer who teaches at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, won the Pulitzer Prize in music Monday for his first opera. Puts, a member of the Peabody faculty since 2006, was honored for "Silent Night," a two-act work commissioned by the...

Rethinking the Baltimore art scene for 2012

2011-12-30 00:00:00

In the past 12 months, some especially high-energy creators have relocated from other metropolises and set up shop within city limits. While a scrappy inventiveness isn't new here — far from it — it could be that the city is reaching a...

BSO to premiere concert version of 'Christmas Carol'

2011-12-15 00:00:00

Composer Bob Christianson is nothing if not versatile. He wrote a lot of pulsating music that accompanied episodes about several, um, energetic women in New York on the HBO series "Sex and the City." He has provided themes for Travel Channel's "Mysteries...

No excuse for a cell phone in the symphony

2012-01-24 10:30:00

In "Learning to live with the ringing" (Jan. 22), Tim Smith quotes Baltimore Symphony Orchestra director Marin Alsop as saying, "No one does these things [allows cell phones to ring during performances] intentionally. ... We have to try to be kind and...

Cockeysville students' art complement Meyerhoff show

2012-02-05 11:11:00

Twelve students from Cockeysville Middle School are having their artwork displayed at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. The exhibition coincides with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's February concert series, which includes a multimedia performance of...

Blockbusters from the BSO

2012-01-21 00:00:00

It is possible to quibble with the idea of cramming three blockbuster works into a single program, but the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra carries it off. Ravel's "Bolero," that brilliant study in rhythmic and melodic reiteration, not to mention crescendo,...

Live performances learn to live with noisy phones

2012-01-20 14:57:00

It was the cellphone heard 'round the world. A bouncy marimba ring tone on an iPhone erupted during the final soft, almost unbearably poignant minutes of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 9 at a recent New York Philharmonic concert in Lincoln Center. Music...

BSO salutes legacy of Harriet Tubman with new composition

2011-09-22 05:41:00

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is all about brand-new this month. Two weeks after premiering David T. Little's Baltimore-inspired "Charm," the BSO is set to premiere another commissioned work — "Chuphshah! Harriet's Drive to Canaan," by James...

BSO premieres vibrant work about Harriet Tubman

2011-09-24 15:40:19

In addition to such things as new recording contracts and a nationally recognized education program, Marin Alsop's influence as music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra can be seen in the programming each season. She typically weaves...

BSO lights a new fire under 'Joan of Arc'

2011-11-11 00:00:00

At the age of 16, a French villager named Jeanne d'Arc responded to what she said were the voices of saints, exhorting her to take up arms against English invaders. Dressed in male clothing, she led troops to victory in battle after battle before being...

BSO takes a new approach to the holidays

2011-12-03 00:00:00

A bevy of Santas will not tap-dance their way into Rockette-style formations onstage to help the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra celebrate the Christmas season this year. That cute tradition, and the rest of the Holiday Spectacular presented by the BSO...

BSO music director Marin Alsop (left) with composer Kevin Puts. The BSO will perform a work by the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner .

2012-06-01 00:00:00

Marin Alsop , music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra , is organizing a conference in Baltimore at the Meyerhoff called Women of the World Baltimore.

2012-02-28 00:00:00

Nickea Johnson, 6, first grade student at Highlandtown Elementary/Middle School receives instruction from BSO Music Director Marin Alsop . The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 's (BSO) OrchKids program celebrates opening its fourth location at Highlandtown Elementary/Middle School.

2012-01-25 00:00:00