Samuel Barber News

HOUSTON (December 17, 2015) – The Houston Symphony will celebrate a new year and begin the second half of the 2015-2016 season with a variety of concerts, guests and programs for people of all ages in January and February.

JCC Manhattan presents the fall season finale of PREformances with Allison Charney on Monday, December 14th at 12:30pm. In this unique concert series, you will hear celebrated classical musicians just before their performances on the world's most prestigious stages removing traditional barriers between performer and audience.

JCC Manhattan presents PREformances with Allison Charney on Monday, November 23rd at 7:30 p.m.

Carnegie Hall celebrates the holiday season with a variety of special programs this December. On Friday, December 18 at 8:00 p.m. and Saturday, December 19 at 8:00 p.m., Tony Award nominees Stephanie J. Block (Wicked) and Brian d'Arcy James (Shrek The Musical and Something Rotten!) help to make the season bright with a program of holiday favorites performed by The New York Pops and Music Director Steven Reineke with Essential Voices USA.

Cantata Singers' expanded Chamber Series begins tonight, November 17, 2017 at 7:30pm at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences with Made in America, a program of twentieth-century American chamber music by Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, and Irving Fine. Cantata Singers' Chamber Series will be in residence at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge for the entirety of the 2015-16 Season.

The Vocal Arts Ensemble (VAE) and Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) will join together Friday, November 13 at Christ Church Cathedral at 8:00 P.M and again Sunday, November 15 at St. Catherine of Siena at 4:00 P.M. Lead by VAE's Grammy Award- winning Music Director Craig Hella Johnson, the VAE and CCO will be delighting audiences with a performance of Bach's vocal masterpiece Mass in B Minor.

Richmond, Virginia Get ready for two great movies on one fantastic night when you join the Richmond Symphony tonight, October 24 at 8pm for a Science Fiction Double Feature!

Cantata Singers' expanded Chamber Series begins on Thursday, November 17, 2017 at 7:30pm at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences with Made in America, a program of twentieth-century American chamber music by Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, and Irving Fine. Cantata Singers' Chamber Series will be in residence at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge for the entirety of the 2015-16 Season.

October 6, 2015 – Richmond, Virginia Get ready for two great movies on one fantastic night when you join the Richmond Symphony on Saturday, October 24 at 8pm for a Science Fiction Double Feature! The evening begins with Murnau's silent classic Nosferatu. Based on the popular horror story of Dracula, the 1922 film will play on screen while the Symphony provides the live soundtrack. This is the first Genworth Symphony Pops Series concert of the 2015-16 Season and will be led by guest conductor Timothy Verville.

The Cape Town City Ballet and Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra are set to appear together on stage in the spectacular production, Symphony of Dance.

The Cape Town City Ballet and Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra will appear together on stage for the spectacular production, Symphony of Dance, showing at Artscape in Cape Town from tonight 7 to 11 October.

The American Repertory Ballet in Princeton held its annual season premiere the weekend of September 25th and 26th at Rider University's Bart Luedeke Center Theater in Lawrenceville.

The Oakland Symphony Orchestra, Oakland University's orchestra-in-residence, will open its 2015-2016 season with a performance at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 4 in Varner Recital Hall. Under the direction of Dr. Gregory Cunningham, the orchestra provides an opportunity for some of the music program's finest student musicians to play alongside faculty members and other professional musicians. The OSO offers excellent performances of the finest symphonic repertoire.

The Cape Town City Ballet and Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra will appear together on stage for the spectacular production, SYMPHONY OF DANCE , showing at Artscape in Cape Town from 7 to 11 October.

The Houston Symphony will play selections from Dvorak's Slavonic Dances and the composer's four-movement Symphony No. 6 this weekend, September 25, 26 and 27. Symphony No. 6 will be recorded and will conclude the Symphony's recording of the composer's sixth through ninth symphonies under the direction of Music Director Andres Orozco-Estrada.

American Repertory Ballet, New Jersey's preeminent classical and contemporary ballet company, will perform throughout New Jersey - in Princeton, New Brunswick, Lawrenceville, Branchburg, Rahway, Manasquan, South Orange, and Trenton - and at the Joyce Theater in New York City from September 2015 through April 2016. The performance season will open tonight, September 24, at Rider University Bart Luedeke Center with an open rehearsal and State of the Art Address, celebrating 5 years of Artistic Director Douglas Martin's artistic leadership.

This enjoyable Sunday afternoon concert was entitled The Best of British, featuring the RCS Ensemble

New York City Ballet will open its 2015-16 Season at Lincoln Center tonight, September 22 with eight performances of Peter Martins' production of Tschaikovsky's Swan Lake, through Tuesday, September 29, to launch the Company's 2015 Fall Season, which will continue for four weeks through Sunday, October 18.

HOUSTON (September 21, 2015) – The Houston Symphony will play selections from Dvo?ák's Slavonic Dances and the composer's four-movement Symphony No. 6 on September 25, 26 and 27. Symphony No. 6 will be recorded and will conclude the Symphony's recording of the composer's sixth through ninth symphonies under the direction of Music Director Andrés Orozco-Estrada.

The Cape Town City Ballet and Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra will appear together on stage for the spectacular production, Symphony of Dance, showing at Artscape in Cape Town from 7 to 11 October.