Joseph Haydn News

Classical music triumvirate Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn create a powerful repertoire that includes perennial favorite, "The Magic Flute" Overture, for Maestro Thierry Fischer's sixth Masterworks concert on November 15 and 16 with Utah Symphony, and acclaimed guest pianist Ronald Brautigam.

James Sommerville, principal horn of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, combines his solo and conducting skills for this immensely enjoyable program featuring a pair of attractive concertos by the Mozarts-father Leopold's Horn Concerto in D and son Wolfgang Amadeus' Horn Concerto No. 3. Rounding out the bill are Haydn's enchanting 'Surprise' symphony, and operatic master Rossini's most familiar work, the merry overture to his comic masterpiece, The Barber of Seville.

Metropolitan Playhouse is pleased to present the 'lovely and satisfying' (Times Square Chronicles) Iris String Quartet in a concert of masterworks by Stravinsky, Bartok, and Haydn. Tuesday, November 26, 2013 at 8:00 PM at Metropolitan Playhouse 220 East 4th Street between Avenues A and B, New York City. Tickets are: $25 Adults and $10 Children Under 18.

On Sunday, Oct. 6, the Oakland Symphony Orchestra (OSO) will open its 2013-14 season with moving performances of major works by Benjamin Britten, Johannes Brahms and Dmitri Shostakovich.

Miro Magloire's New Chamber Ballet opened its 2013-14 season on September 6 & 7 with performances at City Center Studios in New York. It's a simple setting with no lighting, which adds to direct connection it has with the audience.

Utah Symphony | Utah Opera Vice President of Symphony Artistic Planning Toby Tolokan yesterday announced the concert lineup for the organization's Tenth Anniversary Deer Valley Music Festival, featuring Utah Symphony performances with high-profile artists such as actor and banjo player Steve Martin with the Steep Canyon Rangers and vocalist Edie Brickell, screen actor and Broadway star Mandy Patinkin, folk rock music duo Indigo Girls and jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval.

Orchestra of St. Luke's (OSL) will conclude its long-running Orchestra Series with Nicholas McGegan conducting the orchestra for the first time at Carnegie Hall. A leading figure in the movement for historically informed performance, McGegan will conduct a program that explores the most influential friendship of the Classical era-between Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The celebrated cellist Steven Isserlis will join the orchestra to perform Haydn's virtuosic Cello Concerto No. 2.

Boston Ballet Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen today announced the programming for an exciting 2013-2014 season. The Company will commence its 50 year celebration this July with a tour to London, England where they will perform at the London Coliseum. In a sweeping gesture of gratitude to its home city, Boston Ballet will present the first-ever Night of Stars gala on Boston Common - a free performance for the greater-Boston community. Programming includes an astounding range of works, featuring stunning classics La Bayadere and Cinderella, two cutting-edge repertory programs containing American and world premieres, and Balanchine's masterpiece, Jewels. Bringing the season to a triumphant close, Boston Ballet will tour to the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., and end with performances at the Koch Theater in New York City's Lincoln Center.

Boston Ballet Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen today announced the programming for an exciting 2013-2014 season. The Company will commence its 50 year celebration this July with a tour to London, England where they will perform at the London Coliseum. In a sweeping gesture of gratitude to its home city, Boston Ballet will present the first-ever Night of Stars gala on Boston Common - a free performance for the greater-Boston community. Programming includes an astounding range of works, featuring stunning classics La Bayadere and Cinderella, two cutting-edge repertory programs containing American and world premieres, and Balanchine's masterpiece, Jewels. Bringing the season to a triumphant close, Boston Ballet will tour to the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., and end with performances at the Koch Theater in New York City's Lincoln Center.

The Little Orchestra Society (LOS) presents TUBBY THE TUBA narrated by Patti Smith, the iconic National Book Award-winner, rock musician and poet, today, March 16, 2013, at 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall.

Three-time Grammy-nominated Boston Baroque and its Music Director, Martin Pearlman, will present 'De Profundis' tonight and Saturday, March 8 and 9, 2013 at 8:00 PM at New England Conservatory's acoustically acclaimed Jordan Hall (30 Gainsborough Street, Boston).

Three-time Grammy-nominated Boston Baroque and its Music Director, Martin Pearlman, will present 'De Profundis' on Friday and Saturday, March 8 and 9, 2013 at 8:00 PM at New England Conservatory's acoustically acclaimed Jordan Hall (30 Gainsborough Street, Boston).

Guest conductor Matthew Halls will lead the Columbus Symphony, Chorus, and guest vocalist Gillian Keith in a glorious Mozart showcase, featuring his last and greatest symphony and two gorgeous works for soprano and orchestra. Also featured is the festive choral piece composed by Mozart's great friend, Joseph Haydn, for the wife of the Austrian emperor.

The Church of the Transfiguration ('The Little Church Around the Corner') presents pianist Lisa Moore today, January 27, 2013 at 3pm. The concert will feature a New York premiere by Martin Bresnick as well as works by Joseph Haydn, Robert Schumann, Alexander Scriabin, Leos Janacek and Jerome Kitzke.

In celebration of Koerner Hall's fifth anniversary, Dr. Peter Simon, President of The Royal Conservatory, and Mervon Mehta, Executive Director of Performing Arts, revealed today some of the details of the 2013-14 concert season. As always, the upcoming season will include pop, world music, and new special series. Classical and jazz concerts are being announced now, and the rest of the season of over 70 concerts will be released in June. The Conservatory is thrilled to welcome Broadway star Audra McDonald; soprano Natalie Dessay with composer and pianist Michel Legrand; cellist Mischa Maisky; violinists Midori, Isabelle Faust, and Leonidas Kavakos; pianists Yuja Wang, András Schiff, Kirill Gerstein, and Menahem Pressler; Europa Galante with Fabio Biondi; and jazz musicians Joe Sealy, Jackie Richardson, Arlene Duncan, Ranee Lee, Ramsey Lewis Quintet, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Terri Lyne Carrington, Lalah Hathaway, Nona Hendryx, John Pizzarelli, Daniela Nardi, and The Manhattan Transfer.

Guest conductor Matthew Halls will lead the Columbus Symphony, Chorus, and guest vocalist Gillian Keith in a glorious Mozart showcase, featuring his last and greatest symphony and two gorgeous works for soprano and orchestra. Also featured is the festive choral piece composed by Mozart's great friend, Joseph Haydn, for the wife of the Austrian emperor.

HOBART BAROQUE is a brand new event celebrating the music of the 17th and 18th centuries. April 12 sees the inauguration of HOBART BAROQUE, nine days of exceptional performances by international and local musicians. To date, there has been no festival dedicated specifically to baroque music. That honour falls to Tasmania's capital, Hobart.

Boston Baroque, North America's first permanent Baroque orchestra, enters a dynamic new recording era with its debut release for European audiophile label Linn Records: Franz Joseph Haydn's oratorio, The Creation (Die Schopfung).

The following events have been announced at Lincoln Center.

Boston Baroque, America's first period-instrument orchestra, has announced its 2012-2013 concert season, running from tonight, October 19, 2012 to April 20, 2013. Music Director Martin Pearlman will conduct five programs of two performances each, taking place at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall in Boston or at Sanders Theatre at Harvard University in Cambridge. Highlights of the season will include a rarely-performed Handel comic opera, Partenope; Haydn's "Lord Nelson" Mass, which is slated to be recorded for later release on CD; Handel's Messiah at the holidays; and concerts that feature members of the orchestra and chorus in small ensemble and solo roles.