Little Orchestra Society News

The Little Orchestra Society kicks off its 2011-2012 season with the first concert of its popular Lolli-PopsTM series, for children ages 3-5. Kids always love to visit their friends - Bang the Lion, Buzz the Bee, Toot the Bird and Bow the Panda - as they listen, learn and laugh out loud with the orchestra. On Saturday, October 22, 2011, at 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., and Sunday, October 23, 2011, at 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m., The LOS presents a new production entitled Who's Got the Beat?.

Boston audiences will experience Rossini's rarely performed-live comic masterpiece, The Italian Girl in Algiers as Boston Midsummer Opera (BMO) presents its 2011 production.

Boston audiences will experience Rossini's rarely performed-live comic masterpiece, The Italian Girl in Algiers as Boston Midsummer Opera (BMO) presents its 2011 production.

On September 1, 2, 3, 6, and 7 at 7:00 PM, Opera Omnia returns to Le Poisson Rouge to present Francesco Cavalli's Giasone, fully staged, in an English edition by Paul C. Echols (originally prepared for the Mannes Camerata in 1987).

Dino Anagnost, the late Music Director of The Little Orchestra Society (The LOS), said that he was primarily concerned with children having a joyous experience in the concert hall.

Boston audiences will experience Rossini's rarely performed-live comic masterpiece, The Italian Girl in Algiers as Boston Midsummer Opera (BMO) presents its 2011 production.

The TWEED Fractured Classicks Series has presented soaring, irreverent interpretations of classic American plays and films for over 15 years.

The TWEED Fractured Classicks Series has presented soaring, irreverent interpretations of classic American plays and films for over 15 years.

Roundabout Theatre Company in association with Tracy Aron, announces the complete cast for the new Broadway musical THE PEOPLE IN THE PICTURE, starring two time Tony® Award-winner Donna Murphy, directed by Leonard Foglia. THE PEOPLE IN THE PICTURE features book & lyrics by Iris Rainer Dart and music by Mike Stoller and Artie Butler.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director), in association with Tracy Aron, announces additional casting for the new Broadway musical THE PEOPLE IN THE PICUTRE, starring two time Tony® Award-winner Donna Murphy, directed by Leonard Foglia. THE PEOPLE IN THE PICTURE features book & lyrics by Iris Rainer Dart and music by Mike Stoller and Artie Butler.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director), in association with Tracy Aron, announced that two time Tony® Award-winner Donna Murphy will star in the new Broadway musical THE PEOPLE IN THE PICTURE, directed by Leonard Foglia. THE PEOPLE IN THE PICTURE features book & lyrics by Iris Rainer Dart and music by Mike Stoller and Artie Butler.

A panel discussion titled 'Groundbreakers and Music Makers: The First Generation of Orchestral Women' will take place on Sunday, June 13, from 2 to 4 p.m., at the Brooklyn Museum. Presented by the Museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, the event will be held in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium and is free with Museum admission.

After the Metropolitan Opera and New York City Opera, Dicapo Opera Theatre is the only opera company in New York to present an entire season of opera productions, musical theatre, concerts, family fare, and other events, and it does so in a gem of a facility tucked away on the Upper East Side at 184 East 76th Street. The Dicapo Opera Theatre is headed by General Director, Michael Capasso and Artistic Director, Diane Martindale.

A panel discussion titled 'Groundbreakers and Music Makers: The First Generation of Orchestral Women' will take place on Sunday, June 13, from 2 to 4 p.m., at the Brooklyn Museum. Presented by the Museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, the event will be held in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium and is free with Museum admission.

The Little Orchestra Society, with Dino Anagnost as Conductor, plays April 26, 2010 at 7:30pm at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center.

Join The Little Orchestra Society April 26 as we explore the majesty of flight from the early Greeks, the Wright Brothers, Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart through NASA's missions to the moon, our solar system, and beyond. American composers have long been fascinated with humanity's dream of flight, and it has inspired such musical giants as Marc Blitzstein (The Airborne Symphony), Samuel Barber (Symphony No.2), Aaron Jay Kernis (Musica Celestis), Gardner Read (Night Flight) and Kurt Weill (The Lindbergh Flight).

The Little Orchestra Society, with Dino Anagnost as Conductor, plays April 26, 2010 at 7:30pm at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center.

Join The Little Orchestra Society April 26 as we explore the majesty of flight from the early Greeks, the Wright Brothers, Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart through NASA's missions to the moon, our solar system, and beyond. American composers have long been fascinated with humanity's dream of flight, and it has inspired such musical giants as Marc Blitzstein (The Airborne Symphony), Samuel Barber (Symphony No.2), Aaron Jay Kernis (Musica Celestis), Gardner Read (Night Flight) and Kurt Weill (The Lindbergh Flight).