Connie Shakalis Special to The Herald-Times The Bloomington Symphony Orchestra encourages the public to help it celebrate five and half decades of local orchestral music. For those who imagine symphonies […]

The Bloomington Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is thrilled to announce the first-ever Call for Scores for our annual holiday concert, “Celebrate the Season”. The BSO is seeking works relating to the […]

The Bloomington Symphony Orchestra is excited to share the details for our milestone 55th season. We’re calling it “55 Seasons / 55 Reasons” because, for the last 55 years, we’ve […]

Connie Shakalis Special to The Herald-Times Bloomington Symphony Orchestra’s spring program will whirl attendees through Paris in a nontraditional eddy of obsessive, unrequited love and boundary-bashing harmonies. Two programmatic (written […]

Zhe (Elson) Koh started violin studies at 6. He studied with Northwestern University Professor Stacia Spencer and currently studies with Indiana University Professor Mimi Zweig. He placed first in 2015 […]

First, thank you so much for your continued support of the BSO. As we finally emerge from the worst of the pandemic, we are both thankful to you for sticking […]

Connie Shakalis, HT Columnist For the past five years, violinist and conductor Alejandro Gómez Guillén has served as artistic director and conductor of the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra, which is busy […]

Concert Oct. 24 will feature symphony by Florence Beatrice Price Connie Shakalis – Special to the H-T Florence Beatrice Price, known for being the first Black female composer to be […]

Why do we yearn to add what we once had to what we’ve got? Why do we turn from what we are to what we were when we cannot? Why […]

From BSO Bassist Ron Kadish: So how much do you know about Charles Mingus? He’s a pretty major figure in jazz, being the guy who took up large ensemble jazz […]