Jean Sibelius is a specialty of the house at Orchestra Hall. Over the course of Osmo Vänskä's 19 years as music director, the Minnesota Orchestra's interpretations of Finland's national composer have ...

It's not all about Osmo. The Minnesota Orchestra's three-week festival of music by Jean Sibelius may be the flagship event of Osmo Vänskä's final season as music director, but for now, the center of ...

One of classical music’s great anthems is a spectacular ode to a composer’s home country and its people. In April 2024, an audience of 5,000 was left in awe by the mighty sound of one of classical ...

It’s easy to imagine Hilary Hahn having this weekend circled on her calendar. For her lone American concerts of the winter, the renowned violinist is performing Jean Sibelius’ Violin Concerto with a ...

While Jean Sibelius was an aspiring violin virtuoso in his youth, you could say that his chosen instrument ended up being the orchestra. The Finnish composer’s love for the deep and varied sounds that ...

The songs for voice and orchestra by Sibelius are only rarely encountered. Thursday night at Severance Hall, baritone Sir Simon Keenlyside presented a bouquet of eight varied songs by Sibelius that ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- The Minnesota Orchestra and former music director Osmo Vänskä received a GRAMMY award Sunday for their recording of Jean Sibelius' First and Fourth Symphonies. The award is the ...

Sibelius’s Seventh Symphony, an unprecedented 22-minute single-movement, contains all the drama of much longer pieces. But it’s also, some say, a symphonic scream. All articles in this series Here’s ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ever since its stunning concert hall opened in 2000, the Lahti Symphony Orchestra has hosted a Sibelius ...

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University of Wyoming Department of Music Professor Michael Griffith will conduct the UW Symphony Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16, in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts concert hall.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Having opera’s hot newcomer headlining a disc will do no harm to the sales figures. Norwegian soprano Lise ...