Movie music will be featured in a new series of Dallas Symphony Orchestra pops concerts for the next two seasons. Starting in 2010-11, the concerts will feature music from some of the most popular films of recent years. Each of...
Jaap van Zweden has been working such wonders with the DSO that it was a surprise to find him and the orchestra a bit sub-par in Thursday's opening performance. Too much of the concert felt rushed and not as polished...
Stirring--that's the adjective that kept coming to mind during the Thursday morning memorial service for David R. Davidson. Director of the Dallas Symphony Chorus and director of music and arts at Highland Park United Methodist Church (and, before that, of...
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra's 2010 European tour is the latest casualty of the ongoing international recession. Originally scheduled for next February and March, the tour is being postponed until 2012. The Philadelphia and Boston Symphony orchestras have also cancelled European...
Complete with meet-and-greet with music director Jaap van Zweden, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra is holding an open house from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday (April 25) at the Meyerson Symphony Center. The free occasion will include performances by DSO musicians...
The Dallas Symphony is one of seven North American orchestra invited to a new Carnegie Hall festival scheduled for May 2011. Called "Spring for Music," the festival is intended to encourage imaginative programming. This will be the DSO's first New...
Dallas Symphony music director Jaap van Zweden was back conducting the Chicago Symphony last week, and once again he was a hit. "He scored a major success," John von Rhein wrote in the Chicago Tribune, "lifting the performances well beyond...
For the second time this season, Jaap van Zweden is conducting the Chicago Symphony later this month. As back in October, the Dallas Symphony's new music director has been tapped to replace another guest conductor who has withdrawn--this time, Semyon...
In Thursday's Dallas Symphony concert, the first two movements of the Brahms First Symphony seemed surprisingly plodding, not at all what I was expecting from conductor Jaap van Zweden. And the review said so. But I heard rumors that both...
Dallas Symphony music director Jaap van Zweden got rave reviews for his Chicago Symphony debut last week. "One of the most impressive podium debuts Orchestra Hall has witnessed in many a season," wrote Chicago Tribute critic John von Rhein of...
New Dallas Symphony Orchestra music director Jaap van Zweden is making his Chicago Symphony debut this week and next. And in a Tuesday advance, Chicago Tribune music critic John von Rhein sounded keen to hear the Dutchman at work. Substituting...
New Dallas Symphony music director Jaap van Zweden has been tapped as a last-minute guest conductor for a Chicago Symphony program Oct. 9, 10, 11 and 14. He's a late replacement for Riccardo Chailly, who is to undergo tests for...
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