Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra

Category: News from MSO Music Director

  • “Secrets: On Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 4” by Mark Wigglesworth

    The Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra would like to thank conductor Mark Wigglesworth for his kind permission to reprint his essay, Secrets: On Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 4. In the autumn of 1935, the still young but already much fêted Shostakovich had every reason to start composing his Fourth Symphony with supreme confidence. His recent opera Lady Macbeth…

  • Titled String Auditions on May 4, 2017

    We will hold auditions for Assistant Concertmaster and Assistant Principal Bass at Central Lutheran Church on Thursday,  May 4, 2017. Please see the Auditions page, and contact MSO Personnel Manager Emily Pantel at auditions@msomn.org regarding this and other audition information.

  • “A Few Words About Chekhov” program notes

    Dominick Argento (b. 1927) is the Composer Laureate of the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. He lives in Minneapolis and taught composition at the University of Minnesota for 40 years. He was the first recipient of the McKnight Distinguished Artist Award, given in recognition of his lifelong contribution to the arts in Minnesota. He won the Pulitzer…

  • Text from Argento’s “A Few Words About Chekhov”

    PDF file of text from Argento’s, “A Few Words About Chekhov” – Click to view or download