Minnesota Orchestra
The Minnesota Orchestra is a symphony orchestra in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was founded in 1903 and is today a well-known orchestras in the United States.
History
The orchestra was founded in 1903 as the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra of German immigrants Emil Oberhoffer. Most musicians came from the Danz - Orchestra, which Frank Danz had built up in the Twin Cities. In 1907 it was the first time in Minnesota on tour later in the Midwest. In 1912, the orchestra performed for the first time in New York City at Carnegie Hall on. In the 1920s, started recordings have been commercially to market and broadcast on the radio.
In 1954, the orchestra under the direction of Antal Doráti on the set to music by Tchaikovsky ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker. The production of the recorded in the same year 1812 Overture was later repeated to accommodate this again in stereo can. In 1968 the orchestra was renamed the Minnesota Orchestra. Six years later, it moved from the, located on the campus of the University of Minnesota, Northrop Memorial Auditorium at the newly built Orchestra Hall in downtown Minneapolis has to offer. With the conductor Eiji Oue the Minnesota Orchestra took in the 1990s to many highly praised recordings, one of which received six Grammy nominations. In 2003, the Finn Osmo Vänskä the post of chief conductor. He started in 2004 a five-year project in which he would like to record the complete Beethoven symphonies. The CD recording of the Ninth Symphony ( with the Minnesota Chorale in the final chorus ) maintaining a Grammy nomination in 2007.
Comprised of approximately 100 members ensemble plays about 200 concerts a year. In addition to regular appearances in the Orchestra Hall, it goes on tour around the world. Concert recordings are broadcast on more than 120 radio stations and reach an audience over 200,000 listeners per week.