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SYMPHONY WRAPS UP CLASSICS SEASON THIS WEEKEND

Published: Friday, May 17, 2013
0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 Pianist Cornelia Hermann will perform with the Toledo Symphony Friday and Saturday. NANCY HOROWITZEnlarge This week marks the beginning of the end, the conclusion of 2012-2013 series concerts by Toledo’s many classical performance groups. The Toledo Symphony will wrap up its 2012-2013 Classics series with 8 p.m. concerts Friday and more»

POPS CONCERT SERIES CLOSES WITH NOD TO BROADWAY

Published: Thursday, May 2, 2013
1 4 0 5 5 5 5 The Toledo Symphony will shift into overdrive Saturday for its sixth and final KeyBank Pops Concert at 8 p.m. in the Stranahan Theater. Broadway Rocks is the title of the program, to be led by resident conductor Jeffrey Pollock. Rob Evan, Capathia Jenkins, Doug LaBrecque, and Christiane Noll, renowned singers from the worlds of live theater more»

YANG, TOLEDO SYMPHONY MESH WITH ‘GUITAR’ IN CLASSICS CONCERT

Published: Saturday, April 20, 2013
3 9 0 13 13 0 13 13 Xuefei Yang is collaborating with the Toledo Symphony this weekend.Enlarge Friday night’s Toledo Symphony Classics Concert 8 was saturated with color, texture, and sumptuous melodies, performed both by guest guitarist Yang Xuefei and principal players of nearly every orchestral section. Titled The Romantic Guitar, the program was more»

MASTERWORKS CHORALE TO PRESENT SPRING CONCERT

Published: Friday, March 15, 2013
1 4 0 8 8 0 8 8 Sally Rochotte, Toledo Symphony timpanist, will solo at the Mozart & More concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the Franciscan Center.Enlarge The Hills — St. Michael’s in the Hills Episcopal Church, to be exact — will come alive with the sound of music at 8 p.m. Saturday when Masterworks Chorale presents its spring concert. more»

MEMORIAL CONCERT A NIGHT TO RELISH

Published: Saturday, March 2, 2013
23 5 0 32 32 32 32 The Toledo Symphony on Friday night ushered in the month with a springlike program of French and German music chosen with care and cleverness. Stepping up as guest conductor to lead works by Ravel, Mozart, and Beethoven was the very accomplished and clearly inspirational Jacques Lacombe. Lacombe elicited exceptional playing from the more»

TOLEDO SYMPHONY TO CELEBRATE 70TH YEAR WITH STELLAR LINEUP

Published: Monday, February 18, 2013
Facebook Twitter Reddit Digg E-mail Print Rss Violinist Stefan Jackiw.Enlarge The Toledo Symphony will celebrate the big 7-0 during its 2013-2014 performance season. Plans reveal a head-high pile of musical gifts for the community that supports it. Here are some of the sure-fire ooh-and-ah inducers in the works from September through May: ● A live more»

Peristyle buzzes with heat on cold night for Toledo Symphony Classics 5 concert

Published: Sunday, February 10, 2013
Emotional thermostats in the Peristyle Friday night soared into the red zone during the Toledo Symphony Classics 5 concert, which focused on heat in its many forms. There was the heat of battle described in the opening work: Rossini’s Overture to The Siege of Corinth. Written early in the 1820s, when Greece was trying to overthrow Turkish rule, its more»

Peristyle raises the winter bar with Classics V concerts

Published: Thursday, February 7, 2013
http://www.toledoblade.com/Music-Theater-Dance/2013/02/07/Peristyle-raises-the-winter-bar-with-Classics-V-concerts.html As an antidote to this winter's cold, snow, wind, and darkness, the Toledo Symphony is planning a blazing hot time in the old Peristyle during its Classics V concerts at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. For starters, there's Carmina more»