Fritz Kreisler News

Longtime dance and music collaborators Thodos Dance Chicago, led by Artistic Director Melissa Thodos, and Fulcrum Point New Music Project, led by Artistic DirectorStephen Burns, team up once again to present a retrospective evening titled New Music and Dance, presenting four works the ensembles have created collaboratively over the past decade, plus a world premiere.

(Boston) Celebrity Series of Boston will present Bela Fleck's Banjo Summit on Thursday, October 10, 2013, at 7:30pm at Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, Harvard University, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge.

Celebrity Series of Boston has announced its October 2013 performances. The series is celebrating its 75th Anniversary Season with Street Pianos Boston and the 75 pianos around Boston and Cambridge. Details below!

Longtime dance and music collaborators Thodos Dance Chicago, led by Artistic Director Melissa Thodos, and Fulcrum Point New Music Project, led by Artistic Director Stephen Burns, team up once again to present a retrospective evening titled New Music and Dance, presenting four works the ensembles have created collaboratively over the past decade, plus a world premiere.

Due to illness, Sonny Rollins has been forced to cancel his Celebrity Series of Boston performance on Saturday, September 28, 2013, at 8pm at the Boston Opera House. The event was also to serve as the highlight performance of the Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival. Rollins says, 'Due to a recent illness I am unable to perform my upcoming concert in Boston. I am disappointed but I hope to recover soon and I want to thank my many fans who are so loyal to me.'

Back from its seven-concert tour in South America, the Orchestre symphonique de Montreal will be playing Mahler's Fifth Symphony in May under the direction of conductor David Zinman. For the Mahler concert, the OSM will also be hosting pianist Stephen Kovacevich in Mozart's Concerto No. 18, K. 456, 'Paradis.' The Orchestra will wind up its 79th season with a performance of Honegger's grand-scale oratorio Jeanne d'Arc au bucher (Joan of Arc at the Stake)with Carole Bouquet and Guy Nadon under Kent Nagano.

Approaching his final month as Music Director of the Houston Symphony, Hans Graf will conduct a concert featuring several of Debussy and Mendelssohn's must popular works. Graf will welcome his long-time friends, violinist Benjamin Schmid and pianist Ariane Haering, to the Jones Hall stage for an evening of beautiful classical melodies tonight, April 11 and April 13 and 14.

Approaching his final month as Music Director of the Houston Symphony, Hans Graf will conduct a concert featuring several of Debussy and Mendelssohn's must popular works. Graf will welcome his long-time friends, violinist Benjamin Schmid and pianist Ariane Haering, to the Jones Hall stage for an evening of beautiful classical melodies on April 11, 13 and 14.

The Brooklyn Philharmonic announced today that it is returning to the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) as part of a revised Spring season for the first time in three years.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the crown jewel of Ravinia's summer classical programming, closes out their Ravinia summer residency in a concert led by Ravinia Music Director James Conlon in the Martin Theatre at 8 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 20. The performance features CSO soloists and includes Spohr's Nonet in F Major, Op. 31 and Schubert's Octet in F Major, D. 803. The concert also features a ticket and dining package for a special price of $75.

Grammy-nominated Eroica Trio returns to Jorgensen - after its performance in November of Beethoven's Triple Concerto with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra - to play a special solo Valentine's Day program laced with the romantic works of Lalo, Kreisler, Gershwin and Bernstein on Feb. 14, at 7:30 p.m.

The JCC Thurnauer School of Music, New Jersey's leading community music school, named a Major Arts Institution by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, is pleased to announce its 2011-2012 Season.

Cygnus Ensemble launches its Washington, D.C. debut with a 2012 mini-residency at the Library of Congress kicking off with a tribute to composer/violinist Fritz Kreisler. The program includes seldom-heard chamber music by the Austrian master from the Library of Congress' Fritz Kreisler Collection, and presents the world premiere of a new Library commission by Harold Meltzer, co-founder of the Sequitur ensemble.

Cygnus Ensemble launches its Washington, D.C. debut with a 2012 mini-residency at the Library of Congress kicking off with a tribute to composer/violinist Fritz Kreisler. The program includes seldom-heard chamber music by the Austrian master from the Library of Congress' Fritz Kreisler Collection, and presents the world premiere of a new Library commission by Harold Meltzer, co-founder of the Sequitur ensemble.

Grammy-nominated Eroica Trio returns to Jorgensen - after its performance in November of Beethoven's Triple Concerto with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra - to play a special solo Valentine's Day program laced with the romantic works of Lalo, Kreisler, Gershwin and Bernstein on Feb. 14, at 7:30 p.m.

Along with his friend Caruso, Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) was one of the superstars of the early gramophone era.

The Thurnauer Chamber Music Society, the ensemble in residence at the JCC Thurnauer School of Music since 1992, will open its 19th season with The Viennese Tradition: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Fritz Kreisler's Death.

The Thurnauer Chamber Music Society, the ensemble in residence at the JCC Thurnauer School of Music since 1992, will open its 19th season with The Viennese Tradition: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Fritz Kreisler's Death.

Virtuoso, rising star violinist Tim Fain, described by the Herald Tribune as 'dazzling, always risky, and unfailingly exciting,' will be premiering his collaboration with legendary composer Phillip Glass on October 9, 2011 at 4:00pm as part of Portals, a multimedia evening exploring the human longing for connection in a digital age. Partita for Solo Violin, written by Glass specifically for Fain, brings together the 34-year-old violin virtuoso from Santa Monica and the 74-year-old legendary pioneer of American minimalism, to create a performance which will be a true cultural event for the 21st century.