Santa Rosa This fall the Santa Rosa Symphony moved Symphony’s into the brand-new Donald & Maureen new home: Green Music Center at Sonoma State Joan & Sanford University—just in time for the orchestra’s I. Weill Hall in the Donald & 85th year. For its September 30 inaugural Maureen Green concert as the center’s resident orchestra, Music Center at all three of the orchestra’s living conductors Sonoma State were on hand: Conductor Emeritus Corrick University Brown, Conductor Laureate Jeffrey Kahane, and current Music Director Bruno Ferrandis. The orchestra performed a piece commissioned for the occasion: Sonoma Overture by Nolan Gasser of nearby Petaluma. The opening concert took place in the 1,400-seat Joan & Sanford I. Weill Hall, designed by William Rawn and Larry Kirkegaard—the architect and acoustician responsible for Tanglewood’s Ozawa Hall—and theater consultant Len Auerbach. The new center will also host soloists, ensembles, and guest orchestras such as the San Francisco Symphony. For fuller coverage of Santa Rosa’s opening weekend at the Green Music Center, visit SymphonyNOW. In other concert-hall news, on October 20 the Las Vegas Philharmonic opens its first full season at the new Smith Center for the Performing Arts, with Music Director David Itkin leading Beethoven’s Triple Concerto and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.
Fort Worth Symphony at 100 The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra first took the stage in May 1912, and on May 5 of this year it celebrated its 100th anniversary with a birthday party and concert at Bass Performance Hall. The centennial season got underway in August with a two-concert American Festival—repertoire ranging from Bernstein, Barber, Harris, and Copland to Philip Glass, Duke Ellington, and George Walker. Season highlights include the May 2013 world premiere of Jimmy López’s Perú Negro; a February 2013 gala featuring violin showpieces performed by Concertmaster Michael Shih and Associate Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Music Concertmaster Director Miguel Harth-Bedoya onstage with Swang Lin; and the orchestra at its centennial birthday party, works by former May 5, 2012 FWSO composersin-residence Peter Boyer, Gabriela Lena Frank, John B. Hedges, Jennifer Higdon, Kevin Puts, and Behzad Ranjbaran.
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the reins from David Hyslop, who had served as the DSO’s interim president and CEO since May 2011. Before assuming his Charlotte post in 2008, Martin spent nine years as general manager of the Cleveland Orchestra. From 1995 to 1999 he was executive director of the Spokane Symphony, having begun his career at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in a variety of positions over a period of fourteen years. A native of Atlanta, he holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Georgia State University. Blaine L. Nelson, chairman of the DSO Board of Governors, said Martin “will be instrumental in securing for the DSO its long-term stability and sustainability.”
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The Dallas Symphony Orchestra begins the 2012-13 season with a new president and CEO, Jonathan Martin. An experienced orchestra leader who recently completed four years as executive director of North Carolina’s Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, he takes
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