2010 – 2011 Season
“an instrumental voice for the GLBT community”
This performance was recorded on March 14th, 2010 by Twin Cities Public Television for their MN Original television program!
The segment MN Original produced about the Minnesota Philharmonic is available on their web site, as well. Thank you, MN Original!
We’re being televised!
If you attended our winter concert this year, you may have noticed the television cameras around the house. That performance (and some rehearsals earlier) were taped for use in a segment on Twin Cities Public Television’s weekly arts program MN Original.
Our story will be aired on several dates, so you may have to work hard to miss it!
In addition, the full episode will be posted on MN Original’s web site, along with additional content, web exclusive videos, and background information!
We’ll add a link to our specific information on MN Original when it’s available.
And here’s the first link! Preview of tonight’s MN Original program, featuring the Minnesota Philharmonic!
The Minnesota Philharmonic and composer Sarah Miller were highlighted in the Minnesota Women’s Press for our concert in November of 2009. The article talks about our collaboration with the composer to put together the orchestrated version of ‘She Just Wants.’
She Just Wants — Minnesota Women’s Press.
Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO), the first GLBT orchestra in America, will be spoiling us with a blissful spring concert, Hit Parade, on May 30, 7:30 PM, at Hamline University’s Sundin Hall.
For the May performance, MPO will welcome violinist Andrew Sords, who will perform Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major. Also included in the concert are Franz Schubert’s Overture in C Major (D. 591) and Ludwig von Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A Major.During Sords’s first visit to the state, he will reprise his performance with MPO at the Queer Music Consortium’s annual free concert on June 1, 7 PM, at Como Park Pavilion. In addition, he will give demonstrations for elementary students in select St. Paul and Minneapolis schools.
Carisa Sibbet, Lavender Magazine
Read the full article! Sords To Perform with Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra
The 11th annual World Cultural Conference of the International Lesbian & Gay Cultural Network will be happening September 19th and 20th, 2009. The Minnesota Philharmonic’s is a key part of Minnesota’s presence at this international conference.
The International Lesbian & Gay Cultural Network was created at the ILGA world conference in Paris in 1992 to promote international rainbow culture and exchange across borders.
The Queer Music Consortium was highlighted in a recent Lavender Magazine article spotlighting Twin Cities organizations which “have gone above and beyond in supporting our community.”
Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra Music Director Joseph Schlefke remarks, “Through the establishment of the QMC Como Park Concert in early June, we have all expanded our audiences. Choral music lovers are exposed to great music from instrumental groups, and vice versa. Last year, we began sharing a large booth at the Pride Festival at Loring Park, which further helped all of us ‘cross-pollinate,’ if you will, our prospective audience members and other interested music lovers.” Ed Huyck for Lavender Magazine
Read the full article at Lavender Magazine’s web site!
Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra
By Michael Davis (Originally published in Lavender Magazine)
The conductor search committee of the Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO) must have felt a little like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. After an exhaustive four-month search that included highly qualified candidates from all over the world, the committee learned that what it was looking for was right in its own backyard all along.
