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The North Carolina Symphony is an orchestra with a reputation for playing many genres and types of music outside of classical concerts. In 2007, the Symphony toured western North Carolina, with a program featuring traditional North Carolina folk music; Cherokee flutist , fiddlers, banjo players, and clogging performed with the Symphony.
There were 1,224 symphony orchestras in the United States as of 2014. Some U.S. orchestras maintain a full 52-week performing season, but most are small and have shorter seasons. Some U.S. orchestras maintain a full 52-week performing season, but most are small and have shorter seasons.
The orchestra gave its first concert on 20 March 1932 at the Carolina Theatre, with a total ensemble of 57 musicians. Richard Cormier was the first full-time music director of the orchestra, from 1963 to 1967. The orchestra's longest-serving music director was Leo Driehuys, from 1977 to 1993.
Lamar Stringfield organized and conducted orchestra concerts in Asheville beginning in the mid-1920s. He formed the predecessor to the Asheville Symphony Orchestra for an exhibition concert in 1927 and won the Pulitzer Prize for his musical composition, From the Southern Mountains in 1928, eventually leaving Asheville to found the North Carolina Symphony in Chapel Hill in 1932.
Dolly Parton has announced she’s been working on a new orchestra led show called Threads: My Songs in Symphony.. The country singer, 78, revealed the concert will follow the story of her life ...
The Concert for Carolina benefit show will be held Saturday, Oct. 26. Here’s what to know if you want to go. Concert for Carolina: Parking, entry times and livestream info for Helene benefit concert
North Carolina is home to several state and regional orchestras including the North Carolina Symphony based in Raleigh, the Asheville Symphony Orchestra, and the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra. In Hickory, there is also the Western Piedmont Symphony and its accompanying youth orchestra, the Western Piedmont Youth Symphony.
Tickets go on sale Oct. 10 for “Concert for Carolina,” a benefit concert for Hurricane Helene victims, at BoA Stadium in Charlotte on Oct. 26.