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	London Symphony Orchestra
		The imposing and multi-talented musician Hans Richter, was the LSO's first Principal Conductor and conducted the Inaugural concert at the Queen's Hall on 9 June 1904.
		The Orchestra was invited to take up a biennial residency at the Florida International Festival in 1966 and was the first British orchestra to appear at the Salzburg Festival in 1973.
		In the late 1960s, the LSO was chosen by the City of London to become the Resident Orchestra of its new Barbican Arts Centre and the Residency is generously supported by the Arts Council of England, matched by the Corporation of London.
	www.musiciansgallery.com /start/orchestras/london_symphony_orchestra.htm (564 words)

	French culture \| music: Berlioz recordings on LSO Live (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The London Symphony Orchestra Live recordings capture the thrill of the live Berlioz Odyssey concerts and in many ways surpass Davis's old studio recordings.
		London Symphony Orchestra Live recordings are made using the very latest 'high definition' recording technology.
		London Symphony Orchestra Live recordings are produced by multi-Grammy award-winning producer James Mallinson and top sound engineers including Tony Faulkner and Simon Rhodes.
	www.frenchculture.org /music/events/01berliozlsocd.html (636 words)

	the london symphony orchestra
		london musicians are known as the fastest in the world at sorting out music but i can assure you we were pushed to the limits that week
		there was no way of getting the orchestra to make up the time at the end of the session, so zappa was left with a less than perfect recording.
		the lso is a self-governing orchestra and i can assure that a board takes swift action if any one ever does the sort of thing you're referring to.
	www.united-mutations.com /l/london_symphony_orchestra.htm (1530 words)

	The London Symphony Orchestra
		The London Symphony Orchestra Volumes I and II (Ryko RCD 10540/41, April 18 1995; VACK 5115/6 in Japan, renumbered 5250/1 in 1998)
		The London Symphony Orchestra Volume II Volume II was released, on vinyl only, as late as in 1987.
		LSO Volume II had the more mistake-riddled takes on it, and they tended to be just a tad more ragged-sounding than Volume I - but still pretty slick.
	www.lukpac.org /~handmade/patio/vinylvscds/lso.html (1435 words)

	SACD Review: London Symphony Orchestra (Rostropovich) - ‘Shostakovich: Symphony No.8 in C minor, Op. 65’
		When you throw in the fact that LSO Live has captured this in recorded sound that supersedes even their finest previous efforts, you are left with a disc which is among the finest of this — or any — year.
		The early releases by the London Symphony’s in-house label featured accurate recordings of their concert hall, which is to say that they sounded very clear but very dry.
		The only peculiarity of the recording is that LSO Live has neglected to use the center front channel in their recording, thus making this multichannel recording a 4.1 (2/2.1) surround sound vehicle instead of the more standard 5.1.
	www.highfidelityreview.com /reviews/review.asp?reviewnumber=16581793 (2822 words)

	London Symphony Orchestra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Symphony No. 5 received its New York premiere at Carnegie Hall on February 15, 1906, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Wilhelm Gericke.
		Boulez became principal guest conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra, later accepting the positions of chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and music director of the New York Philharmonic.
		The Orchestraâs pioneering spirit was strong even in the early yearsâ”it was the first British orchestra to travel abroad when it visited Paris in 1906 and later became the first to visit America (1912), Israel (1960), and Japan (1963).
	www.carnegiehall.org /article/box_office/events/evt_4274_pf.html (1779 words)

	London Symphony Orchestra - Biography
		The London Symphony Orchestra is the capital's longest-established orchestra and was the first in Britain to be self-governing.
		The LSO has made a number of recordings for Sony Classical, the most recent being John Williams' original soundtrack recording for George Lucas' prequel Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace (SK/ST/SM 61816), due to be released in conjunction with international film openings this summer.
		Concert-giving is just one part of the Orchestra's life: as well as recordings with the world's leading conductors and soloists and providing film soundtracks (including Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Braveheart), the LSO has a strong commitment to education work.
	www.sonyclassical.com /artists/london_symphony/bio.html (454 words)

	LSO - Sun 25 Jun 2006 7.30pm Barbican Hall, London. MAHLER - London Symphony Orchestra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		LSO - Sun 25 Jun 2006 7.30pm Barbican Hall, London.
		Mahler declared that in his Third Symphony he wanted to ‘create a gigantic musical poem, including all the phases of evolution, and depicting its gradual ascent.
		It begins at the heart of inanimate nature and progresses to the love of God.’ The result (scored for mezzo-soprano, choirs of women and boys and a large orchestra) is not only one of his most massive works, but also one of his most all-embracing.
	www.lso.co.uk /whatson/fulllist/details.asp?perf=25/6/06&d=25&m=5&y=3&act=day&pg=1 (103 words)

	Party Pictures 1/23/04 - London Symphony Orchestra 100 yrs, Supermodel of the World
		This event, which coincides with the London Symphony Orchestra's 2004 New York Residency at Lincoln Center (January 18-21), is the first Centenary celebration in New York in what will be an extremely exciting year.
		The gala will be truly unforgettable, a stellar cast assembles to celebrate the LSO's 100th birthday, on the anniversary of the Orchestra's first ever performance on June 9th, 1904.
		As part of its mission of bringing world class music to the widest possible global audience, the LSO is also the only British orchestra that has committed to an annual residency in New York City, bringing one of its major artistic events to New York every year.
	www.nysocialdiary.com /partypictures/2004/01_23_04/partypictures01_23_04.php (737 words)

	London Symphony Orchestra
		The London Symphony Orchestra, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this season, and principal conductor Colin Davis have given Chicago music lovers some memorable evenings in recent years.
		It was odd, then, that Davis and his LSO players gave such an uneven performance Friday night as they stopped at Symphony Center during their 100th anniversary U.S. tour.
		Davis and the orchestra repeated the Beethoven-Stravinsky program in Symphony Center Friday night, and it was an odd pairing of relaxed high spirits in the Beethoven and surprising lack of vitality in most of the Stravinsky ballet.
	www.suntimes.com /output/delacoma/cst-ftr-london26.html (371 words)

	Telarc International: London Symphony Orchestra
		The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is London's longest-established orchestra and was the first in Britain to be self-governing.
		The LSO made its first tour, to the United States, in 1912 (the Orchestra's booking to travel on the Titanic was changed at the last minute) and has maintained a major international profile ever since.
		The LSO is the world's most recorded, and probably listened to, orchestra.
	www.telarc.com /biography/bios.asp?aid=140 (411 words)

	Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra Centenary Tour Concerts
		This brilliant showpiece for orchestra is in large part great swoons of the voluptuous alternating with swaths of the mysterious, interrupted occasionally by wakeup calls of the grandiloquent.
		One of the secrets is part of the orchestra was placed on risers, which allows the full range of the instruments to penetrate into the hall with greater clarity.
		The hundred-year-old LSO almost didn't make it to adolescence: In 1912 the adventurous young orchestra took the unusual step of planning a tour to the U.S. to bolster its reputation.
	www.culturekiosque.com /klassik/concert/lso.html (1047 words)

	classical music - andante - london symphony orchestra, 19 march 2002: shostakovich
		In this recording from London's Barbican, the soloist in the concerto, the 27-year-old Russian cellist Denis Shapovalov, plays boldly and energetically, unfazed by the fact that the work's dedicatee is conducting the orchestra.
		Rostropovich's powerful reading of the symphony achieves a monumentality that no other interpreter has yet approached, while bringing an element of sharpness and poignancy to the workers' songs that Shostakovich quotes throughout the piece.
		The London Symphony celebrates the 75th birthday of Mstislav Rostropovich with a concerto and symphony by the composer with whom he is most associated, Dmitri Shostakovich.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=16453&highlight=1&highlightterms=&ls (395 words)

	London Symphony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There are two famous pieces of music known as the London Symphony:
		Haydn's symphonies number 93 to 104 are also known collectively as the London symphonies (or the Salomon symphonies after Johann Peter Salomon).
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London_Symphony (125 words)

	UBS - London Symphony Orchestra
		LSO and UBS work together to nurture outstanding talent, inspire participation and harness the full power and potential of the musical experience, for everyone.
		Through LSO Discovery — the LSO’s education programme, based at LSO St Luke’s, the LSO and UBS Music Education Centre on the edge of the City — the two organisations will run the LSO Hackney Schools’ Programme.
		As well as cultivating young audiences, LSO and UBS plan to bring exciting new works to established audiences at their Barbican concerts.
	www.ubs.com /1/e/about/sponsor/orchestral_music/londonsymphonyorchestra.html (442 words)

	The London Symphony Orchestra - Biography, Photos, and more - Moviefone
		London Symphony Orchestra Barbican Centre Silk St London EC2Y 8DS Box Office: 020 7638 8891 Admin: 020 7588 1116 Fax: 020 7374 0127 Email: admin@lso.co.uk...
		The London Symphony Orchestra (frequently abbreviated to LSO) is one of the major orchestras of the United Kingdom.
		The London Symphony Orchestra - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, The London Symphony Orchestra Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/the-london-symphony-orchestra/43056/main?_pgtyp=pdct (134 words)

	London Symphony Orchestra
		Join the LSO e-list for up to date info on concerts, tours, LSO Live releases and events at LSO St Luke's
		You can now download LSO Live music from emusic as well as a host of other stores including iTunes
		The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2003, London Symphony Orchestra.
	www.lso.co.uk (122 words)

	andante boutique - london symphony orchestra (1904 - 2004) - the centennial set (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The majority of the orchestra's Principal Conductors are represented, whilst two guest conductors who occupy particularly vital places in the orchestra's history are also included: Bruno Walter and Sir Georg Solti.
		Franz Schubert, Symphony N° 8 in B minor, D 759 "unfinished": I. Allegro moderato: István Kertész, London Symphony Orchestra, 1966
		Franz Schubert, Symphony N° 8 in B minor, D 759 "unfinished": II.
	www.andante.com /boutique/shop/index.cfm?action=displayProduct&iProductID=747 (672 words)

	North London Symphony Orchestra (NLSO)
		The aim of the play-in is to raise funds for both North London Symphony Orchestra and the North London Hospice.
		The orchestra will be playing all day long at the Palmers Green United Reformed Church, Fox Lane, Palmers Green N13 4AL (click here for map).
		If you are interested in conducting the orchestra please contact Towyn Mason on 020 7281 1816 or Caroline Ryan on 07980 003325.
	www.nlso.org.uk /play-in.html (122 words)

	Time to Say Goodbye by Sarah Brightman/London Symphony Orchestra
		Tu Quieres Volver - The London Symphony Orchestra, Sarah Brightman
		In Pace - The London Symphony Orchestra, Sarah Brightman
		In Trutina - The London Symphony Orchestra, Sarah Brightman
	www.mmguide.musicmatch.com /album/album.cgi?ALBUMID=650241 (281 words)

	LSSO - London Schools Symphony Orchestra
		The London Schools Symphony Orchestra (LSSO) is one of the most potent symbols of the talents and achievements of London’s youth.
		Under the artistic guidance of Peter Ash, the orchestra is going from strength to strength, attracting generous tributes and ecstatic reviews.
		In 2003, the orchestra attended the 9th International Youth Musicale in Shizuoka, Japan and in 2004, presented the French and UK premieres of The Minpins, an arrangement by Peter Ash and Donald Sturrock of the Roald Dahl story with music by Sibelius.
	www.cym.org.uk /hols/lsso.php (511 words)

	Barbican - London Symphony Orchestra/Hickox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Elgar’s Cello Concerto, written in the aftermath of the First World War, is a work whose elegiac tone, seeming to bid farewell to a way of life, seems unlikely to lose its power to move.
		Vaughan Williams’s overture to Aristophanes’s The Wasps offers a jauntier kind of Englishness, while in his First Symphony grandiloquent choral settings of poetry by Whitman are used to suggest the sea in all it moods, and with it our own voyage through life.
		LSO Animateur Richard McNicol in conversation with Richard Hickox
	www.barbican.org.uk /music/event-detail.asp?ID=3582 (103 words)

	WNYC - Music - London Symphony Orchestra All-Sibelius Program
		The station plans to feature the LSO on Soundcheck and on its music programs over the course of the orchestra's year-long, worldwide centennial.
		The London Symphony Orchestra's January 19 performance is part of a three-concert series presented by Lincoln Center's Great Performers Series.
		The broadcast is WNYC's second live broadcast of a London Symphony Orchestra performance; the first aired on March 5, 2003 from the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.
	www.wnyc.org /music/articles/25304 (297 words)

	Amazon.com: Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade/Capriccio Espagnol: Music: Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov,Sir Charles ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Charles Mackerras and the London Symphony Orchestra are very much in the demonstration class in this brilliant reading of Rimsky-Korakov's "Scherazade" and "Capriccio Espagnol".
		He feels at home conducting a small ensemble such as New York City's Orchestra of Saint Luke's (He recently relinquished his musical directorship of this ensemble) or the great London Symphony Orchestra.
		Here he leads the London Symphony Orchestra in two of the finest performances I have heard of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade and Capriccio Espagnol.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000003CVU?v=glance (1573 words)

	Amazon.com: London Symphony Orchestra, Vols. 1 & 2: Music: Frank Zappa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		FZ stated in many interviews that 'The LSO can play most classical music with their eyes closed, but were not really all that good at reading music they didn't know 'by heart.' Which kinda, at the time, really suprised me.
		After listening to other orchestras play FZ music (try national philharmonic on 'orchestral favorites' and bootleg berkley orchestra doing 'Sinister Footwear') and you will see just how stiff the LSO seems to be.
		This is a world class orchestra playing world class instruments from the 18th and 19th centuries and they had their own 'flavor' which contributed to the final recording.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000009T8?v=glance (1784 words)

	London Symphony Orchestra \| Sound Generator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tonight’s concert was always going to be particularly special, with film composer Jerry Goldsmith conducting the LSO in a 75th Birthday celebration concert.
		The London Symphony Orchestra is one of the leading orchestra in the world and their performance tonight was no acception to their high standards.
		He controlled the orchestra with ease as his vast experience came into practice.
	www.soundgenerator.com /burner/review_detail.cfm?reviewid=557 (984 words)

	London Gay Symphony Orchestra homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The London Gay Symphony Orchestra is the only lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender orchestra in the UK.
		The Orchestra was formed as a musical home for the large number of gay and lesbian musicians who wanted to combine their music and social lives.
		The atmosphere in the Orchestra is a mix of commitment and hilarity and our concerts have an electrifying energy that players unanimously agree they do not experience in other orchestras, possibly because our concerts attract a significant number of people who do not attend other classical concerts.
	www.lgso.org.uk (222 words)

	London Symphony Orchestra enters download market \| Sound Generator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Head of the LSO Live Chaz Jenkins spoke to soundgenerator earlier today about why they have ventured into downloads.
		LSO Live launched in 2000, is the London Symphony Orchestra's own label set up to release key recordings made by the orchestra.
		Many of the recordings have been conducted by LSO conductor Sir Colin Davis as well as other luminaries such as Rostropovich, Previn, Jansons and Haitnik.
	www.soundgenerator.com /news/index.cfm?articleid=5337 (487 words)

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