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Symphony, painter create beauty

Published: Saturday, February 4, 2012
http://www.toledoblade.com/Music-Theater-Dance/2012/02/04/Symphony-painter-create-beauty.html Friday night, beauty was in the ear and the eye of the beholder as the Toledo Symphony and painter Felix de la Concha collaborated to produce a most innovative program for a large and tuned-in audience in the Toledo Museum of Art Peristyle. It was all more»

Spanish painter to join Toledo Symphony in concert

Published: Monday, January 30, 2012
Toledo Symphony conductor Stefan Sanderling with a portrait by Spanish artist Felix de la Concha, a celebrated realist painter and portraitist who will create works of art on stage as the symphony performs. PROVIDED TO THE BLADEEnlarge | Photo Reprints The Toledo Museum of Art has been a happening place for more than a century. Next weekend in its stately more»

Pageantry theme for Peristyle concerts

Published: Monday, January 23, 2012
There were no lions, no tigers, no bears last night in the Toledo Museum of Art's historic concert hall. But, oh my, the circus was in town nonetheless. And how welcome all the hoopla was as a January program, led mostly by resident conductor Jeffrey Pollock in his no doubt memorable Peristyle debut. Without question, hundreds of brave music lovers were more»

Music lovers to go to the 'Circus'

Published: Monday, January 16, 2012
Facebook Twitter Reddit Digg E-mail Print Rss It takes a lot of brass — and plenty of hot air — to bring the circus to the Peristyle and to Kobacker Hall, but this year the Toledo Symphony seems to have plenty of both. For its fourth Classics Series concerts Friday and Saturday, as well as Bowling Green State University’s Festival Series on more»

Hermits' Peter Noone comes to the Stranahan

Published: Friday, January 13, 2012
Time travel is on tap for this Saturday's KeyBank Pops Concert when Peter Noone takes over the Stranahan Theater, backed by the Toledo Symphony and his own band. It will be the second night of the 2012 Whirled Tour for Noone, the original Herman of Herman's Hermits, and he's as enthusiastic as ever. With his brash, toothy smile, rumpled mop of blonde hair, more»

Toledo Symphony Kicks off the New Year

Published: Friday, January 6, 2012
The Toledo Symphony will kick off the second half of its World of Music season with Peter Noone and Herman's Hermits in the band's Around the Whirled tour stop at the Stranahan Theater for a Keybank Pops concert at 8 p.m. Jan. 14. Noone, the remaining active member of the original boy band, part of the 1960s British Invasion, will reprise lots of the more»

Holiday CDs light up the season

Published: Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Ahhh, nothing says Christmas like a snowy lawn, a gaggle of wrapped gifts under the tree, a toasty fire, and the Oak Ridge Boys singing “I’ll be Home for Christmas.”

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If your holidays are made all the merrier by the country-gospel quartet best known for “Bobbie Sue,” “American Made,” and “Elvira” tackling Christmas chestnuts and originals, then your perfect gift arrived six years late as it did my desk only a week ago. 2005’s “Christmas Cookies” features

Holidays In Your Area

Published: Monday, December 5, 2011
Midway through its holiday concert marathon, the Toledo Symphony will present a Neighborhood Concert at 7 p.m. Friday in the West Toledo YMCA, 2100 Tremainsville Rd. Bassoonists Gareth Thomas and Joan Weiler will solo in "Bassoon it will be Christmas," by Stephenson, a highlight on a program of Christmas and Hanukkah music led by resident conductor Jeffrey more»