With the hiring of Julia Marciari-Alexander, it turns out the Walters wasn’t looking for the next Gary Vikan—it was looking for the next Kwame Kwei-Armah, or maybe the next Marin Alsop. Rather than...
Michael Beresh writes songs you like to be around, songs that make you ache in a good way. He leans country, without tipping headlong into twang-y stereotypes that would break the evocative spell on...
OrchKids—the BSO-sponsored, after-school music program—has been awarded a Getty Education and Community Investment Grant. Here are the details from the BSO...
The grant of $17,500 has been awarded...
My favorite concerts this year all happened outside the local club scene—three were at schools and one was at an arena. Two of the school concerts were associated with OrchKids, the BSO-sponsored...
Tim Handley, who produced Marin Alsop and the BSO's Mahler: Symphony No. 1 CD, has been nominated for a Grammy Award in the "Classical Producer of the Year" category. it's an excellent...
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is giving $950,000 to the BSO to support the BSO Academy over the next three years. The Academy, which provides adult amateur musicians with opportunities to learn and...
Up-and-coming Brazilian conductor Alexandra Arrieche has been chosen to receive this year's BSO-Peabody Conducting Fellowship. She will start a one-year artist diploma program at Peabody next month...
John Waters continues to surprise. Earlier this summer, he lit up the blogosphere with a cross-country hitchhiking adventure (that will be the basis for a new book), and it's just been confirmed...
Yup, that's really Roger Waters with students from West Baltimore's Lockerman-Bundy Elementary School. The kids, all of them from the BSO's OrchKids music program, joined Waters onstage at the...
During Roger Waters's epic The Wall show at Verizon Center last night, a children's chorus came out to sing during "Another Brick in the Wall." Well, those kids were from West Baltimore, and they're...
