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All concerts begin at 7 p.m. at Symphony Hall at the DECC. Sept. 17: “The Dream of America”: Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man, Golijov’s Azul, and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 From the New World. Soloists: Matt Haimovitz, cello; Michael Ward-Bergeman, hyper-accordion; Eugene...

The Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra’s music director has signed on for more years with the company, the DSSO announced earlier this week. Maestro Dirk Meyer, who was hired in 2012, renewed his contract through June 30, 2021. He has also worked with the Sarasota (Fla.) Orchestra,...

The signature strength of Dirk Meyer's tenure as music director and conductor of the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra has been his ability to make us hear music with new ears. The final educational effort of the season, "Heaven & Earth," was provided Saturday night at a sold...

The “Elysium Fields” concert by the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra on Saturday night at Symphony Hall was in honor of the lengthening days, a novel approach to insist spring has sprung, cold climatic conditions to the contrary. But guest pianist David Kadouch had an unexpected...

The “Gods & Myth” concert Saturday night at Symphony Hall provided the titular centerpiece of the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra’s 2015-16 season with “The Ring Without Words,” Lorin Maazel’s arrangement of symphonic excerpts from Richard Wagner’s “The Ring...

The Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra has a contest for patrons: Solve a series of clues that followers can try to solve with prizes ranging from concert tickets to spa dates. Riddles will be revealed on Saturdays via email and Facebook. The first: Between an English city and a...

When the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra announced that its 2015-16 "Gods and Myths" schedule included an "Immortal Beethoven" concert, I immediately penciled in the Third Symphony ("Eroica") for the evening's centerpiece. After last season's triumphant finale with Beethoven's...

The Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra did not wait until the proverbial last minute to celebrate the centennial of the birth of Francis Albert Sinatra, just the last couple of hours of the last day of the year. But they certainly did it right, with guest artist Michael Andrew treating...

The masterful performance of guest violinist Tai Murray had the locals jumping out of their seats, and that was after she had played just the opening movement of the Sibelius Violin Concerto. Then conductor Dirk Meyer creatively constructed “A Nordic Symphony” as the return trip...

For its second program the DSSO Chamber Music Series took patrons on a musical history tour moving from location to location through the Depot on Tuesday evening to listen to an eclectic collection of classical music. Dennis Lamkin from the Depot provided the history part of the...

For “Final Revelations,” the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra presented a pair of symphonies on Saturday night at the DECC Symphony Hall and demonstrated conductor Dirk Meyer’s flair for the dramatic with a thrilling performance of Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony...

Both the young and the young at heart showed up Saturday night at the DECC Symphony Hall for a rare treat as conductor Dirk Meyer and the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra provided live music for a screening of “The Wizard of Oz.” Many of the kids were attending their first...