The Phoenix Symphony announces their 2013/14 season, which promises to bring some of the biggest music and names of the orchestral world to Symphony Hall and beyond. This season marks The Phoeni... Read More
As the music director of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony in Ontario, Canada, Edwin Outwater has commissioned work by Richard Reed Parry of Grammy-winning indie-rockers Arcade Fire and conducted a co... Read More
Conductor Michael Christie began his relationship with The Phoenix Symphony ten years ago, leadingan audition concert of new Australian music that featured, among other things, the first didgeridoo ev... Read More
A celebration of Maestro Christie in his final performance as the Virginia G. Piper Music Director. In a very personal, bittersweet, yet triumphant concert, Maestro Christie and the Symphony t... Read More
He’s about to lead the Phoenix Symphony in his final concert as Virginia G. Piper music director. And maestro Michael Christie is feeling pretty good about what he’s been able to accompl... Read More
The Dante “Symphony” might not be Liszt’s best composition, at least according to several revered conductors of the past who have snubbed it. This is not so much the case nowadays ... Read More
Record labels often package orchestras performing Liszt’s “Dante Symphony,” based on Dante Alighieri’s journey through hell and purgatory, as depicted in “The Divine Co... Read More
The Phoenix Symphony gives a concert for kids, performing selections from “The Lion King,” “Carnival of the Animals,” and “Flight of the Bumble Bee,” among others... Read More
The program opens with superbly tedious symphonic poem Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. Thank you, Mr. Constantine for attempting to make this piece come alive. Without this “first-responde... Read More
