The Minnesota Orchestra is going to South Africa this summer to honor the centenary of Nelson Mandela - the first major professional orchestra from North America to visit that country. The orchestra ...

A week ago today, the Minnesota Orchestra was in South Africa, preparing to play the most anticipated concert of its five-city tour of the country in Soweto, a township outside Johannesburg. Now, as ...

The Minnesota Orchestra is headed to South Africa this summer, becoming the first professional U.S. orchestra to tour that country. The orchestra announced Thursday that during the 11-day tour in ...

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JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – The concert was set to start in a half hour. Chairs were in place and people had begun arriving. But Roderick Cox remained on the podium, coaxing out of the young players ...

Minnesota Orchestra bass player William Schrickel plays next to a member of the South African National Youth Orchestra in a side-by-side rehearsal at the Aula Theater at the University of Pretoria ...

Clarence Frank has played in the Baytown Symphony for about 25 years, and in January he was named the orchestra's new music director and first African American conductor in its 53-year history, ...

Damon Albarn and Africa Express organized this concert with 50 musicians from the Syrian National Orchestra. Featuring Julia Holter, Albarn, and others, it reaffirms that art at its best is a gesture ...

It practically has become a cultural rite in Chicago: Every year or so, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis returns here, often performing two nights in Orchestra Hall and ...

Minnesota Orchestra's South Africa tour honors Nelson Mandela with musical diplomacy. Minnesota Orchestra's South Africa tour honors the centenary year of Nelson Mandela’s birth. Music Director Osmo ...