Tonight, all-star band Palookaville—guitarist/singer Howard Markman, keyboardist Glen Workman, bassist Chas Marsh, and drummer Jim Hannah—bring their infectious roots rock to 1919 Fleet, the best...
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...
Tonight, Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys play Merriweather, and there's a reception for the Honoring 1812 exhibition at the Crystal Moll Gallery in Federal Hill from 5 to 8 pm. At the gallery...
Animal Collective's Geologist plays a DJ set tonight at the Hirshhorn in D.C. as part of a "happening" that incorporates musical performances into Doug Aitken's Song 1 piece (above), which wraps the...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
A beautiful 18th century italian viola d'amore. I remember being on a musical tour in Italy and having a week to spend in Padua. A italian...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” made me aware of what was necessary to learn—scales, chords and rhythms—in order to perform jazz music at a...
