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Minnesota Orchestra presents two concurrent events at Symphony Ball 2012: "Music of the Night" and "Crash the Ball"

Symphony BallOrchestra’s largest annual fundraiser, held June 16 at the Depot Minneapolis, features dancing, live and silent auctions, and live music by popular band Party Crashers

Young professionals’ event “Crash the Ball” includes music by DJ Jonathan Ackerman

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Season finale concerts feature all-star lineup of conductors and performers, paying tribute to Orchestra Hall before its closure

Minnesota Orchestra ends season June 14 and 15 with a special multi-genre program, the last to be held in Orchestra Hall before the venue’s one-year closure for renovation

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Soprano Deborah Voigt sings Salome in Classical season finale concerts

Deborah VoigtMusic Director Osmo Vänskä leads Minnesota Orchestra concerts June 7 to 10; Voigt performs dramatic Final Scene from Richard Strauss’ controversial opera Salome

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Pianist Sudbin returns, performing Mozart concerto with Vänskä conducting

Yevgeny SudbinMusic Director Osmo Vänskä leads Minnesota Orchestra concerts May 17 to 20; Yevgeny Sudbin performs with ensemble for fifth consecutive season, playing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24

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Minnesota Orchestra visits Willmar for weeklong Common Chords festival of concerts and community activities

Common Chords in WillmarOrchestra holds its second Common Chords residency May 21 to 26 in Willmar, Minnesota

Festival week includes more than 30 events reflecting the heritage and diversity of Willmar, including musician visits to schools, businesses, farmers market, hospital; exchanges with arts groups

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Preservation Hall Jazz Band and New Orleans Jazz Orchestra to perform An Orchestra Hall Commemoration Concert, May 26

New Orleans Jazz Orchestra and Preservation Hall Jazz BandOrchestra Hall is soon to undergo a transformation—and to celebrate before temporarily closing the doors for renovation, Preservation Hall Jazz Band and New Orleans Jazz Orchestra will stage a festive traditional New Orleans “funeral," complete with singing, dancing and a second-line march.

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Rizzi conducts Romeo and Juliet selections; Kwak solos in Glazunov Violin Concerto

Carlo Rizzi and Sarah KwakConductor Carlo Rizzi debuts with Minnesota Orchestra in all-Russian concerts May 10 to 12; First Associate Concertmaster Sarah Kwak plays final solo of her 24-year tenure with Orchestra

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  1. Järvi leads all-Russian program; cellist Weilerstein plays Shostakovich concerto
  2. Minnesota Orchestra Principal Oboe Basil Reeve plays final solo of his 41-year tenure
  3. Minnesota Orchestra announces Jazz series lineup for 2012-2013
  4. 2012-13 Inside the Classics season features Brahms' First, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, Britten's Young Person's Guide reimagined
  5. Stanislaw Skrowaczewski returns, conducting Bruckner's Eighth Symphony
  6. Sweet Honey In The Rock concert features newly-commissioned work, April 21
  7. Vänskä conducts Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, plus premiere of new violin concerto
  8. Minnesota Orchestra premieres Acadia, major new work by Judd Greenstein funded through hundreds of audience donations
  9. Irvin Mayfield sends A Love Letter to New Orleans, April 6
  10. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy returns to Orchestra Hall
  11. Gilbert Varga returns, conducting symphonies of Haydn and Schumann
  12. The King's Singers return to Orchestra Hall
  13. Vänskä conducts Sibelius' Fourth Symphony; Tetzlaff solos in Szymanowski concerto
  14. The Chieftains 50th Anniversary Tour 2012: Voice of Ages
  15. Minnesota Orchestra announces 2012-13 U.S. Bank Pops Season
  16. Minnesota Orchestra announces plans for 2012-13 classical season, to be held at the Auditorium of the Minneapolis Convention Center
  17. Winter in Minnesota transforms into Springtime in Paris, March 3
  18. Dance fever abounds with Ballroom with a Twist, March 2
  19. Courtney Lewis conducts Schumann concerto, English masterworks; Ingrid Fliter solos
  20. Orchestra performs preview concerts at the Auditorium of the Minneapolis Convention Center
  21. Litton leads "A Russian Spectacular," with Gluzman soloing in Prokofiev Violin Concerto
  22. Lizz Wright and Kurt Elling deliver a musical Valentine
  23. Andrew Litton and Minnesota Orchestra announce plans for summer 2012 concerts, to be held at Ted Mann Concert Hall
  24. Conductor James Gaffigan, cellist Anthony Ross star in program of Russian masterworks
  25. Warner Bros. presents Bugs Bunny at the Symphony
  26. Inside the Classics concerts explore John Adams' My Father Knew Charles Ives
  27. BIS releases first album in Minnesota Orchestra's cycle of Sibelius symphonies
  28. Minnesota Orchestra and Minnesota Chorale join forces in finale of Bravo Brahms series
  29. Golden Dragon Acrobats bring spectacular feats to Orchestra Hall
  30. Peter Serkin performs Brahms' two piano concertos, one each in two distinct programs
  31. Two-week Bravo Brahms series launches with James Ehnes as soloist in Violin Concerto
  32. Brian Stokes Mitchell debuts with Minnesota Orchestra
  33. Minnesota Orchestra shares achievements of 2010-11 season in Annual Meeting
  34. Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute culminates in Future Classics concert of new works
  35. New biography Seeking the Infinite explores life of Conductor Laureate Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
  36. Minnesota Orchestra names Erin Keefe as new concertmaster
  37. Minnesota Orchestra surpasses $20,000 fundraising goal for innovative Musical MicroCommission project
  38. Minnesota Orchestra visits Grand Rapids for weeklong Common Chords festival
  39. Minnesota Orchestra Fantasy Camp Offers Immersion Experience for Amateur Musicians, Sept. 15-16
  40. BIS releases Minnesota Orchestra album of Beethoven Piano Concertos No. 4 and 5
  41. Minnesota Orchestra to perform 2012-13 season in Minneapolis Convention Center Auditorium
  42. Target donates $5 million toward Orchestra Hall renovation
  43. Introducing Minnesota Orchestra Music On Demand
  44. BIS releases Minnesota Orchestra's recording of Bruckner's Fourth Symphony
  45. Minnesota Orchestra and Toronto architects KPMB unveil designs for expansion of Orchestra Hall
  46. Hyperion releases two-disc set of Tchaikovsky piano concertos, featuring Minnesota Orchestra and Stephen Hough
  47. Sound Space Design appointed by Minnesota Orchestra as acoustical consultant in Orchestra Hall renovation
  48. Sarah Hicks named Minnesota Orchestra's Principal Conductor of Pops and Presentations
  49. Minnesota Orchestra appoints celebrated Toronto architects KPMB to design renewal and expansion of Orchestra Hall