Spring for Music: A Retrospective

The first annual Spring for Music festival featured unconventional programs by seven North American orchestras. Listen to each of the complete concerts here.

May 15, 2011

The Montréal Symphony Explores Symphonies and Asks: What's in a Word?

Why is a symphony relevant for today? It's a question Kent Nagano poses as the Montréal Symphony Orchestra closes out the Spring for Music festival at Carnegie Hall tonight. The progr... May 14, 2011

Spring Fever: Symphonic Metamorphosis

The symphony has undergone such transformation since it first emerged as a conventional form hundreds of years ago. Concluding Carnegie Hall's Spring for Music festival, Kent Nagano ... May 14, 2011

Montréal Symphony Orchestra: The Evolution of the Symphony

Kent Nagano, Music Director GIOVANNI GABRIELI - Sacrae Symphoniae for brass excerpts JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH - Sinfonias, for solo keyboard, Nos. 1-5 (Angela Hewitt, Piano) ANTON WEB... May 14, 2011

Spring Fever: Dawn Upshaw, Soprano and Muse

This evening, Friday May 13 from 5 to 8 pm, Q2 continues work in tandem with WQXR's Spring for Music broadcast of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra's performance with soprano, Dawn Upsha... May 13, 2011

The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

Soprano Dawn Upshaw joins conductor Maria Schneider for the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's return to Carnegie Hall. IGOR STRAVINSKY - Concerto in D for String Orchestra MARIA SCHNEI... May 13, 2011

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Mixes It Up With Jazz Composer, Intrepid Soprano

Tonight at 8 pm, our live broadcasts from Carnegie Hall continue. Soprano Dawn Upshaw joins the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra for the New York premiere of Maria Schneider's Carlos Drum... May 12, 2011

Spring Fever: Music in Time of War

Artists have often used their art as a means of making sense of the horrors of war and taking a political stance: from Salvador Dalí's painting Face of War to Kryzstof Penderecki's st... May 12, 2011

Oregon Symphony: Music for a Time of War

American baritone Sanford Sylvan joins the Oregon Symphony. Carlos Kalmar, Music Director CHARLES IVES - The Unanswered Question JOHN ADAMS - The Wound-Dresserfeaturing Sanford Syl... May 12, 2011

Spring Fever: Pulitzer Prize Winners

Carnegie Hall's Spring for Music festival is designed to allow orchestras to flex their creative programming muscles and provide an outlet to think outside of the overture-concerto-sy... May 11, 2011