Category: Historical

On Sunday, the famed Curtis Institute of Music celebrated its centennial. Founded by Mary Louise Curtis Bok, who believed in the transformative potential of individuals …

Minnesota Public Radio will rebroadcast 1975 concerts featuring the SPCO and Alfred Brendel performing all five Beethoven piano concertos.

On October 29, 1993, Minnesota Public Radio saved the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra from going out of business with a radiothon. SPCO Artistic Director Kyu-Young Kim says “It’s not hyperbole, just a simple statement of fact.”

Longtime SPCO musicians and staff remember the Halloween Blizzard of 1991.

Author Dave Kenney tells the story of the Ordway Concert Hall, the first hall specifically designed for The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.

Two photos capture the beginning and end of our 30 years in the Ordway Music Theater.

We recall the SPCO’s first Ordway Music Theater concert on January 9, 1985.

Christopher Hogwood conducted 264 of our concerts from 1986 to 1999, and served as Director of Music from 1988 to 1993.