For half a decade, the BPO’s West Side Connection outreach program has been in place to ensure that there is a healthy connection between the music institution and the neighborhood that it inhabits.
Since the turn of this century, however, something of a Schmitt revival has been taking place, in which BPO Music Director and Conductor JoAnn Falletta has a leading role.
It takes a serious amount of knowledge to become a conductor of an orchestra. That’s why Maestro Stefan Sanders learned it from the inside out.
Both discs reflect the BPO’s effort to choose music that offer the audience something to grab on to.
Peled will be performing the Dvorak concerto on a very special instrument, a 1733 cello by the Venetian master Matteo Goffriller once owned by the legendary Spanish-Catalan cellist, Pablo Casals.
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The gestation period for Brahms’ first piano concerto was particularly difficult and prolonged.
“I freely confess that I love tunes,” says Jack Gallagher, the composer of Diversions Overture, the opening work on this week’s Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra concerts.
Growing up on the South Side of Chicago, Demarre McGill could be a rebellious teenager. But he was not your average rebellious teenager.
Professional flutist Demarre McGill told his personal success story Thursday afternoon to more than 100 middle-school music students at Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts.
