orchestra

Hardly kids’ stuff, these symphonies prove some of the greatest musical and emotional challenges for even the greatest professional orchestras.

In January 2007, he again conducted the orchestra, this time at Disney Hall.

Phil, something that the composer acknowledged at the orchestra’s latest Green Umbrella concert, dedicating it to Fleischmann in honor of what would have been his 100th birthday this past December.

Director Molly O’Brien trails her aunt Orin O’Brien — esteemed double bassist and the first woman member of the New York Philharmonic orchestra — as she prepares for retirement after decades of playing and teaching.

For almost 60 years, the all-volunteer orchestra — together with the Brentwood Palisades Chorale — had served the community with a series of annual programs, and their first concert of 2025 was just a few weeks away.