BRYAN PARK CONCERT Sunday, July 12, 2009 6:30 PM Bryan Park, Bloomington CLASSICS I Saturday, October 3, 2009 Time TBA Location TBA “Global Romance” Ginastera – Estancia (13′) Borodin – Polovtsian Dances (14′) Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor (31′) Maxim Bernard, piano soloist MEET THE INSTRUMENTS Saturday, November 7, 2009 Wonderlab CLASSICS II Saturday, November 21,...

Jazz — and more — fills the concert hall By Peter Jacobi H-T reviewer 5/11/2009 Not until the third item on Saturday evening did the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra get around to music reflecting the title of its program, “Jazz in the Concert Hall,” but, what came before added to the amiable nature of the concert, held at Bloomington High School North, and did not seem at all out of place. The...

New conductor inspiring orchestra to play better By Peter Jacobi H-T Reviewer 12/14/2008 Charles Latshaw, the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra’s enthusiastic and talented young music director, has his ensemble playing with renewed energy and consistently improving tonal quality. That was clearly in evidence Saturday afternoon when the orchestra performed a compact concert of works by Gustav Mahler...

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Sarah Brubeck | IDS | 11/9/2008 Eight-year-old Tierra Lindley gripped a bow and slid it back and forth along the strings of a cello, feeling the vibrations of the different chords and deciding that it is the instrument she wants to learn to play. At the WonderLab’s “Meet the Instruments” weekend, children were allowed to place their lips on a trumpet and fight to make a sound, use a bow to play...

October 21, 2008 Peter Jacobi H-T Reviewer For the early evening performance Saturday of the Faure Requiem, a good-sized choir of about 50 from Bloomington’s Unitarian Universalist Church took the stage at Sherwood Oaks Christian Church.  For a later-in-the-evening program of English and Italian madrigals at Recital Hall, far smaller concentrations of singers — from three to seven —...