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The Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra's season came to a close Saturday night at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center's Symphony Hall with a variety of musical pyrotechnics making up the "Now and Then" program celebrating the organization's 85th anniversary.

Saturday night at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center's Symphony Hall, the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra joined forces with the local Big Time Jazz Orchestra for "Big Time Swing," a combination of classical and popular music. With a first half devoted to Viennese waltzes...

The Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra's "Hidden Treasures" concert Saturday night at the DECC's Symphony Hall offered a trio of works rarely performed by some of the great names in music. We began with the second recording in the DSSO's Beethoven Project, Symphony No. 4, which will...

Ellie Schoenfeld, Duluth's current poet laureate, and two of her predecessors added another dimension of sound Saturday afternoon at the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra Chamber Music concert at the Depot. While the poets largely took their cue from the "Winter Notes" program...

As music director at the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra, Dirk Meyer has shown an abiding commitment to collaboration. Saturday night's "Russian Tales" concert at the DECC Symphony Hall offered three different types of collaboration. The opening piece, Tchaikovsky's "Marche Slave"...

For its New Year’s Eve concert, the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra called upon the services of Craig A. Meyer, aka “Almost” Elton John, and the Rocket Band for “Remember When Rock Was Young,” which made for a rocking good time at the DECC’s Symphony Hall on Saturday...

The Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra’s ambitious recording project commenced Saturday night at the DECC’s Symphony Hall with “The Beethoven Project: The Early Years.” Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 and Symphony No. 1 were combined with works by Handel and Mozart, the...

When it comes to the unusual weather this November, some have wondered how many of the four seasons could we experience this month? For those in attendance at the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra’s concert on Saturday night at the DECC’s Symphony Hall, the answer was all four,...

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...