Saturday, June 29th, The South Bend Symphony under the direction of Maestro Tsung Yeh will present Party in the Park at St. Patrick's County Park. The evening will include, family fun with an instrument petting zoo, a two hour concert starting at 8pm with the South Bend Symphony finishing with Fireworks during the playing of the 1812 Overture. Gates open at 5:30pm and tickets can be purchased at the gate.

The Instrument Petting Zoo will be in the white barn and gives children a hands - on experience with different types of musical instruments and will be open from 5:30pm to 7:00 pm. At 7:00pm the students from the Dake Summer Music Academy will take the stage and perform pieces from their concert earlier in the week, then at 8:00pm Maestro Tsung Yeh and the South Bend Symphony will start the concert. Janet Hines-Norris is the guest artist. The Music for the evening will include a Beatles medley, patriotic songs and summertime favorites.

South Bend, IN  - Saturday, April 27th at 8:00 pm., the Morris Civic Theater hosts the South Bend Symphony’s final installment of the Masterworks Series.   The evening’s celebration will focus our local German Heritage with selections from Wagner, Strauss & Beethoven.  Our guest artist for the evening is Violinist, Aaron Berofsky.

South Bend, IN – Saturday, March 23, 2013 the Morris Performing Arts Center will host the South Bend Symphony with Maestro Tsung Yeh featuring Sylvester Potts and The Contours to close the 2012-2013 KeyBank Pops Series.

This show is jam-packed with dazzling choreography, impeccable harmonies and those timeless Motown grooves that everyone knows and loves. You can choose to dance, sing along or just sit back (if you can) and watch the show as The Contours featuring SYLVESTER POTTS perform all of their greatest hits together with many of the greatest hits of the 60's and 70's era, as well as a selection of classic songs from the Dirty Dancing Soundtrack.

South Bend, IN - Friday, March 8th at 7pm at the Clay High School Auditorium, members of the South Bend Symphony will perform with the Clay High School Orchestra side by side.    This collaboration is a result of a Season long residency of the South Bend Symphony To Go - Strings and Woodwinds.   The members are:  Zofia Glashauser, Lara Turner, Ed Randles, Nic Orbovich, Gabriel Schlaffer, Trevor O’Riordan, Jennet Ingle, Leslie Short, Kurt Civilette and Jason Kramer.   Clay High School Orchestra Director, Denise Kuehner, will conduct the first half of the concert and Maestro Tsung Yeh will conduct the second half of the concert with member of the South Bend Symphony performing side by side with the high school orchestra members.

South Bend, IN - Saturday, February 16th at 8pm .the second of the South Bend Symphony’s Key Bank POPS series: A Valentine from Gershwin, with all Gershwin music. Featuring such favorites as: An American in Paris, Strike Up the Band, Rhapsody in Blue and Porgy & Bess.

George and Ira Gershwin will always be remembered as the songwriting team whose voice was synonymous with the sounds and style of the Jazz Age, by the time of their 1924 Broadway hit. Today, the Gershwin catalog has been taken up by a younger generation who have delighted in vintage and contemporary recordings, revivals, and the "new" Gershwin musicals, MY ONE AND ONLY (1983) and the 1992 Tony Award winner for best musical, CRAZY FOR YOU. The United States Congress awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to the Gershwins in 1985 (only the third time that songwriters had been so honored), and in 2007, the Library of Congress instituted the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

South Bend, IN - Saturday, February 2, 2013 the Morris Performing Arts Center will host the South Bend Symphony as it continues its Masterworks Series celebrating our local heritage with selections from Hungarian and Polish composers.  Guest artist will be pianist, Vakhtang Kodanashvili.

The South Bend Symphony Orchestra ends the City of South Bend’s Martin Luther King Day Celebration with a concert honoring Dr. King on Monday, January 21, 2013 at the IU South Bend, Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts in North Side Hall Auditorium.   The 7:00 p.m. concert features South Bend Symphonic Choir, IUSB Chorale and the IU Gospel Choir and IU South Bend Chamber Choir under the direction of Dr. Marvin Curtis along Mr. Lynn C. Coleman as Narrator for Copland’s Lincoln Portrait.   They will join Maestro Tsung Yeh and the South Bend Symphony Orchestra for an evening of inspirational music, from Mozart to Uzee Brown.   The Special Guest Artist is Ade Williams, violin, the Junior Division First Place Laureate of the 2012 Sphinx Competition.  Concert goers can obtain the free tickets needed for admission by calling the IU South Bend box office 574.520.4203.  Tickets can be picked up in the lobby of the North Side Hall the day of the concert starting at 6pm.

The South Bend Symphony Orchestra rings in the yuletide season with HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS on Saturday, December 15th, at 8:00pm and on Sunday, December 16th, at 3:00pm at the Morris Performing Arts Center. Joining Maestro Tsung Yeh and the South Bend Symphony Orchestra is special guest artist Susan Nelson along with The Goshen High School Chorus.

Susan Nelson, soprano is equally at home on the operatic stage or in concert repertoire. As an American lyric soprano Ms. Nelson has been praised by critics for her “full, powerful voice – agile and pliant” as well as her interpretations, called both “sensitive and moving” and “full of life and vigor.” She showcases versatility and vocal beauty in repertoire from Bach to contemporary Pops. Ms. Nelson holds degrees from the University of Illinois and the Eastman School of Music. She is a recipient of a Career Encouragement Award from the MacAllister Foundation.

By ANDREW S. HUGHES
South Bend Tribune

The critics and the public had it wrong in 1927, when Buster Keaton released “The General.”

Back then, the film received negative reviews and was considered a flop at the box office.

Now, it’s rightly considered a masterpiece of the silent era, one that the South Bend Symphony Orchestra and guest composer, arranger and keyboardist Rick Friend will accompany Saturday in a screening at the Morris Performing Arts Center.

“Keaton, at the time, never was considered to be the great comedian,” film historian Donald Crafton says. “Nowadays, I would say the pendulum has swung away from (Charlie) Chaplin to Keaton.”

A professor in the University of Notre Dame’s department of film, television and theater, Crafton rates Keaton as his favorite of the silent era’s comedians, with Harold Lloyd behind him, followed by Chaplin.

ELKHART - Ruthmere Museum’s fall concert series begins with the South Bend Symphony’s String Symphony-to-Go ensemble at 7 p.m. Friday at 302 E. Beardsley Ave.

The group includes concertmaster Zofia Glashauser on violin and principal musicians Nicolas Orbovich on violin, Gabriel Schlaffer on viola, Lara Turner on cello and Edward Randles on bass. The program will include “Hoe Down” by Copland, works by Schubert, Brahms, Shostakovich, Bizet and Dvorak, and a version of “Amazing Grace” by John Newton.

Other concerts in the series include:

• Classical guitarist Stephen Tunstall at 7 p.m. Nov. 2.
• Harpists from the studio of professor Suzann Young-Davids at 7 p.m. Nov. 16.
• Pianist and Elkhart native Nicholas Roth at 7 p.m. Nov. 23.

Tickets are $20 for the general public or $35 for the series or $10 individually for Ruthmere members.

For more information, call 574-264-0330, ext. 101, or visit the website Ruthmere.org.

SOUTH BEND - The Snite Museum of Art presents “Breaking the Mold: Musical Reflections by the South Bend Symphony” from 5 to 7 p.m. today as part of its monthly Third Thursdays@the Snite events series.

The series is designed to spark creative conversations through exhibitions and performances.

This month, the woodwind quintet of the South Bend Symphony Orchestra performs the musical equivalent of the Realist paintings on view in the exhibition “Breaking the Mold: The Legacy of the Noah L. and Muriel S. Butkin Collection of 19th-Century French Art.”

Admission is free.

For more information, call 574-631-5466 or visit the website sniteartmuseum.nd.edu.

Zofia Glashauser has had “fun” learning Henri Francois Joseph Vieuxtemps’ Violin Concerto No. 5 in A minor, Opus 37, for Sunday’s chamber concert by the South Bend Symphony Orchestra.
But it’s also been a physical challenge for the SBSO’s concertmaster.

“He must have had huge hands,” Glashauser says about Vieuxtemps. “I thought, ‘How could anybody play those huge chords?’ … The challenge I had was to grab all four strings with all four fingers. Usually when you play chords, you need just two fingers.”

“He must have had huge hands,” Glashauser says about Vieuxtemps. “I thought, ‘How could anybody play those huge chords?’ … The challenge I had was to grab all four strings with all four fingers. Usually when you play chords, you need just two fingers.”

South Bend, IN -- Sunday, October 21 at 3:00 pm., the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center hosts the opening of the South Bend Symphony Orchestra, June H. Edwards Chamber Series.  The afternoon of music will feature selections from French and Belgium composers.  Guest artist will be Violinist, Zofia Glashauser.

The June H. Edwards Chamber Series will present three concerts featuring Principal Symphony Members as guest artists. The first concert includes French/Belgium Heritage in music with Zofia Glashauser, Concertmaster, violin, performing Vieuxtemps Violin Concerto No. 5. Trevor O’Riordan, Principal Clarinet playing Copland’s Clarinet Concert highlighting Jewish Heritage. The third concert presents Slavic Heritage with Lara Turner, Principal Cello performing Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme.