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Baltimore Symphony offers invigorating salute to the Gershwin Brothers

Jan-10-2012 — Conductor Jack Everly has found some cool, off-the-beaten-track items that make the familiar ones seem just a little fresher, and his assured, sensitive guidance from the podium generates a consistently classy level of music-making. Read More...

Straddling Genres With the City's Biggest Big Band

Nov-17-2011 — "I'll be honest with you, I never really liked the term 'pops,'" said Steven Reineke, who has served as conductor and artistic director of the New York Pops for the last three years. "It's just the diminutive for 'popular music,' and that, of course, is very subjective. Read More...

DeSare Steals Show At POPS Concert

Nov-3-2011 — But Tony DeSare was the star of the show, and he performed the bulk of the material on a generous program. That program consisted of standards by the likes of Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Henry Mancini and Jule Styne, more contemporary songs by Bruce Springsteen and Prince, and a few by DeSare himself. The DeSare songs held their own in such exalted company, passing the time pleasantly enough while not being particularly memorable. Read More...

Conductor Steven Reineke brings energy, easygoing style to NSO Pops

Aug-15-2011 — One of the nation's most sought-after pops conductors, composers and arrangers, Steven Reineke is the newly appointed Principal Pops Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra and begins his first season in 2011/2012. Read More...

Michael Krajewski's Sounds of Simon & Garfunkel

Jun-14-2011 —

A genuine and honest musical treatment of the Simon & Garfunkel songbook performed by national touring artists AJ Swearingen & Jonathan Beedle accompanied by full symphony orchestra. Michael Krajewski features the orchestra in a Paul Simon solo medley, songs of Carly Simon and other favorite selections of the 60s and 70s.

Simon & Garfunkel songs include: Sounds of Silence, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Me and Julio, 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy), and more.