A veteran Canadian conductor who has also led orchestras in Europe and the United States has been named the new musical director of the Baton Rouge Symphony.
Music is nothing but vibrating air, but sometimes it has the power to convince you that the world is just being born or that it’s coming to an end.
Friday’s world premiere of “The Fourth Pedal,” a piano concerto by Lansing Symphony Orchestra composer-in-residence Patrick Harlin, had it both ways.
Lansing Symphony's composer-in-residence, Patrick Harlin, and returning guest pianist Clayton Stephenson, on bringing Harlin's final LSO work, The Fourth Pedal, to life.
It’s hard to budge a symphony orchestra, what with all those tubas, fiddles, harps and whatnot. The weight of tradition makes it even harder. But in the past three years, 38-year-old composer …