Highlights
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1916 as a municipal orchestra, supported by taxpayer money. Gustave Strube served as the first conductor of the group of about 50 players. It became a private institution in 1942. The orchestra came into its own in the 1960s when philanthropist Joseph Meyerhoff became president. During his tenure, the BSO moved from the Lyric Opera House to its new permanent home at the 2,443-seat Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. The orchestra also performs at the Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda. The BSO had many firsts under conductor Sergiu Comissiona, whom Meyerhoff appointed. Comissiona expanded the orchestra's season to 52 weeks. The BSO went o...
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1916 as a municipal orchestra, supported by taxpayer money. Gustave Strube served as the first conductor of the group of about 50 players. It became a private institution in 1942. The orchestra came into its own in the 1960s when philanthropist Joseph Meyerhoff became president. During his tenure, the BSO moved from the Lyric Opera House to its new permanent home at the 2,443-seat Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. The orchestra also performs at the Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda. The BSO had many firsts under conductor Sergiu Comissiona, whom Meyerhoff appointed. Comissiona expanded the orchestra's season to 52 weeks. The BSO went on its first international tour in 1979 and became the first American orchestra to be invited to the Dresden Music Festival in 1981. Comissiona also led the BSO's first recordings. Under director David Zinman, the BSO was the first American orchestra to tour the Soviet Union after cultural relations were resumed at the end of the Afghanistan war. The BSO won several Grammys for its recordings with Yo-Yo Ma in the 1980s and '90s and received nominations for other works. In 2005, the BSO made history when it named Marin Alsop its 12th director, making her the first woman to be appointed music director of a major U.S. orchestra. Under Alsop, the orchestra released recordings on iTunes and was broadcast on XM Satellite Radio. For the 2007-2008 season, the orchestra unveiled a ticket sales plan intended to boost attendance. New and current BSO subscribers paid $25 per concert for seats anywhere in the hall.
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BSO to bring the piercing strings of 'Psycho' to life this weekend
Taking a shower has never felt truly safe ever since Janet Leigh stepped under the spray in the bathroom of nondescript Cabin 1 at the Bates Motel, during the most famous scene of Alfred Hitchcock's stylish horror film from 1960, Psycho.
It's chilling...Tags: Horror (genre), Genres, Popular Music, Bernard Herrmann, Alfred Hitchcock
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Area's Fourth of July celebrations
Anne Arundel Annapolis: Celebrate an old-fashioned Fourth of July in Annapolis. The parade starts at 6:30 p.m. today at Amos Garrett Boulevard and proceeds downtown. A concert by the U.S. Naval Academy Band follows at 8 p.m., concluding with a 9:15 p.m....Tags: Games, Maryland Science Center, Vehicles, Festive Event, National Aquarium Baltimore
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City opera plans need not be grand
No, I haven't stopped thinking about Baltimore's opera future. And, thanks to some others in the area similarly focused, I've got a lot more to think about. Last week, Giorgio Lalov and Jenny Kelly announced the debut season of their Baltimore Opera...Tags: Lyric Opera of Baltimore, 1st Mariner Arena, Opera, Music Theater, Classical Music
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Joseph Gillespie
Joseph Stras Gillespie Jr., a retired telephone company personnel executive and a sports coach, died of complications from Parkinson's disease Monday at his Severna Park home. He was 76. Born in Tazewell, Va., he earned a bachelor's degree from Hampden-...Tags: Death and Dying, University of Virginia
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BSO takes on the music of 'Final Fantasy'
There is a realm where Light Warriors roam, not to mention the likes of Lukahn, Kraken and Tiamat, a world with places called Gurgu Volcano and Melmond. In this strange and eventual universe can be experienced something known as Final Fantasy-- assuming...Tags: Facebook, Video Games, Games, United States, Carl Orff
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Kids day at water park
Event takes place noon to 3 p.m. Saturday at Swansfield Mini-WaterPark, 5659 Cedar Lane. The public is invited to a luau-themed afternoon of family activities, including a DJ, face painters, balloon sculptor, moon bounce, food and more. Also, KidsKorner... -
OrchKids music program moving and expanding
The after-school OrchKids program sponsored by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will be expanding and moving to a new city school in the fall. The program, which provides children with instruction in playing musical instruments, started its pilot year...Tags: Harriet Tubman
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Charles 'Ed' and Arthur 'Otts' Garman
They were the closest of brothers. They graduated from the same high school, and both were World War II veterans. After the war, they returned to civilian life and became partners in an Anne Arundel County lumber business. Both married and raised their...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Reisterstown, American Legion, Death and Dying, Catonsville
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Elspeth M. Udvarhelyi
Elspeth M. Udvarhelyi, who had held important development roles with several Baltimore and Washington artistic and cultural organizations, and had been development director and interim CEO of the Globe Theatre in London, died Sunday of Merkel cell cancer,...Tags: Campaign Finance, London Theatre, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore Museum of Art, United States
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Hilary Hahn is classically cool
A comment posted by a viewer on one of violinist Hilary Hahn's many YouTube videos sums up her appeal neatly: "You're just too cool, Hilary :)"
The stellar 29-year-old fiddler, still based in Baltimore, where she grew up and started her musical training,...Tags: YouTube, Popular Music, Internet, Indianapolis, Music Industry
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Marin Alsop to remain music director of BSO until at least 2015
Baltimore Sun reporterMarin Alsop, the dynamic American conductor who became the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's 12th music director in September 2007, will remain in that post until 2015 under the terms of a five-year contract announced Thursday. That contract will begin...Tags: Leonard Bernstein, Marin Alsop, Contracts
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Alsop's new contract is reason to be upbeat
It has not been the happiest of music seasons in Baltimore, not with the death of a once-proud opera company and cutbacks or postponements by other organizations struggling with the economic downturn. So the news late last week from the Baltimore Symphony...Tags: Leonard Bernstein, Indianapolis, Music Industry, Classical Music, Mount Vernon
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