George Walker News

Beginning in November, Sound Sites will feature recorded performances of classical and contemporary music in spaces including Bond Chapel, Mansueto Library, the Booth Winter Garden, the Botany Pond, and more.

Providing another platform for the LA Phila??s SOUND/STAGE series of concert films, Classical KUSC radio will broadcast excerpts from the first three episodes on air from October 20 through 28 at 6pm, with complete audio from each concert posted to kusc.org after that episodea??s excerpts have aired.

The New Jersey Youth Symphony (NJYS), a program of the Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts, presents a free outdoor community concert on Sunday, October 25 at 3:00 p.m. The concert will take place at the New Providence Centennial Park located on Academy Street in New Providence.

This month the BBC Symphony Orchestra marks its 90th birthday. This pioneering orchestra has been at the heart of British musical life since it was founded in 1930 by Adrian Boult, with almost every note it plays broadcast on BBC radio or TV.

Born in Bakersfield, award-winning principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet Tiler Peck joins the BSO as a special guest artist for this program.

The Cleveland Orchestra: In Focus first concert premieres October 15

Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra has announced its virtual opening night concert, IPO Reimagined, featuring 30 IPO string players performing George Walker's Lyric for Strings followed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Serenade. The 45-minute program takes place Saturday, October 24 at 7 p.m., and is free to the public via livestream.

Utah Symphony returns to the Abravanel Hall stage on October 22, 23 and 24 for the third weekend of Masterworks concerts on the reimagined 2020-21 season, featuring Dvořák's a?oeSerenade for Strings,a?? and highlighting brass and percussion musicians performing works by Joan Tower and Tōru Takemitsu, among others. Making his Utah Symphony debut is guest conductor David Robertson. Tickets for the general public go on sale October 12 at 12 PM. For more information, visit https://utahsymphony.org/event/id/24586/.

Sarasota Orchestra announced today a reimagined season that brings the joy and inspiration of classical and pops music to the community while maintaining health and safety for its patrons, musicians, staff and volunteers.

The New Jersey Youth Symphony, a program of the Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts, has announced that it will open the 2020-21 season with new and compelling online education programs that include 15 master classes and 12 webinars with world-renowned guest artists and educators.

New West Symphony (NWS), with Grammy-winning conductor Michael Christie as Artistic and Music Director, has announced a 2020-21 season of digital concerts, paired with engaging complementary content, to be available streamed or on-demand. Christie is programming eight mini-festivals, held from October through June, that highlight the music, cultures and family traditions throughout Greater Los Angeles, while emphasizing connections with orchestra repertoire.

Chicago Philharmonic's 31st Season: Together safely brings beloved symphonic and chamber music to Chicagoans of all ages and backgrounds in virtual Fall a?oeHear it Togethera?? series and two socially-distanced, outdoor chamber concerts.

The New School's Mannes College of Music has announced the Schneider Concerts ONLINE | 2020-21 Season - we have been working for the past few months to develop a flexible model that will allow us to continue to provide outstanding, emerging chamber artists with performance opportunities and offer New York audiences introductions to chamber music.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic's SOUND/STAGE media project, an online compendium of concert films, debuts Friday, September 25, at 10am with 'Love in the Time of COVID.'

Delaware Symphony Orchestra has announced a fully virtual 2020-21 season.

The Santa Barbara Symphony invites the community to discover a reimagined 2020-2021 performance season, one that will be forever remembered as historic.

The New Jersey Youth Symphony, a program of the Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts, announced today that it will host the U.S. Youth Orchestras eFestival 'We Never Stopped Making Music' on September 20, 2020 at 8:00 p.m. EST via Zoom and YouTube Live.

The University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) announces a fall performance season like no other, reimagined to address limitations due to COVID-19, yet offering a widely available range of events involving all of the university's five arts schools through innovative collaborations and inventive delivery of theater, music, film and dance.

The Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) is introducing a new fall series, Virtual Concerts: Your Orchestra, Your Home, offering the opportunity to hear works rarely performed in the concert hall. The series replaces the orchestra's original fall subscription concerts.

 The Orchestra Now (TŌN), Bard Music Festival, and Bard College Conservatory of Music will present Out of the Silence: A Celebration of Music. The video series of four free live-streamed concerts for string orchestra, piano, and percussion is coming to UPSTREAMING, the Fisher Centera??s virtual stage, from September 5 - 26.